On Thursday 07 October 2004 06:09, Dave Griffiths wrote: > Hi all, > > With the talk of text based studios (great site btw, Julien) I > thought I'd mention http://www.toplap.org which is devoted to > the practice of programming music and art live, in front of an > audience. Good topic, Dave. One I'm very interested in as a player (sax, flute, keyboard), teacher and sometimes programmer. The first demo of computer generated sound that I saw was at the Museum of Modern Art about 1970, I think. I was out of music during the 70's, but was very impressed by a solo alto sax player in a club in Oakland about 1976; young woman who had made her on backups onto cassette tapes. Good player, good taste and simple presentation that worked for the player and the crowd. > > Ok, so it's not strictly linux based, but the applications > used include Alex Mclean's feedback.pl: > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/31/livecode.html lots of > supercollider, using jitlib: > http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/566 and some > stuff I've written: http://www.pawfal.org/Software/fluxus/ > which are all running on linux. > > The text based nature of the interfaces tend to lead to more > flexibility rather than less. The idea is to project the code > as part of the performance to allow the audience to see the > relationship between the code and the music - and remove the > "are they just checking email" syndrome :) ) Strongly agree on the flexibility of interactive text interfaces. And on the idea of projecting the code as part of the performance to expand what the audience sees or hears, with text to speach conversion. In 1992, I saw a great presentation by Stanley Jordan on using APL in music performance and teaching at the APL92 conference at Stanford. It caused me to start looking into music on the pc and now at last I have a very good linux machine with audio (PlanetCCRMA) and apl (APLX) working. I just installed apl last week so not sure yet how to interface apl with pccrma, but I bet it ain't that hard. As an aside, some of you might be interested in looking at APLX not so much as a language but to how well it is done for linux, mac and windows. Very easy install and excellent documentation on not just how to install it, but how and why to use it. My biggest difficulty with linux programs has been finding info on the "why folks use program Z" and "how to use it". > > See also the paper "Live Algorithm Programming and a Temporary > Organisation for its Promotion" here: > http://www.toplap.org/?Read_Me_Paper > > cheers! > > dave Just recently heard about a performance here, by a solo guitar player from New York who came in, setup and generated his backups for several tunes live; explaining how was part of show. Wish I had known about in time to attend. What we can do now is almost unbelieveable to me. Thanks for the links; looks like I have have some reading to do. Sure I'll enjoy it. Marv in Lex, KY looking at beautiful leaves under Fall sun.
