Greetings Favio, Dave, and all, Nick Collins and Alan Blackwell recently published a paper "The Programming Language as a Musical Instrument", which put forth a comparison/contrast of Ableton Live to ChucK (the latter a text-based audio programming language that, among other things, can be programmed "on-the-fly", or live). A well-written and fun read, and perhaps relevant to the subject at hand. The paper: http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~nc272/papers/pdfs/proglangasmusicinstr.pdf The chuck: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ I've also included Nick's original post to TOPLAP below. Best, Ge! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:14:15 +0100 From: Nick Collins <nc272@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: livecode@xxxxxxxx To: livecode@xxxxxxxx Subject: [livecode] ChucK vs Ableton Live hi all, Alan Blackwell and I wrote a paper on 'The Programming Language as a Musical Instrument' from the perspective of human computer interaction, which I've made public here in case anyone is curious: http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~nc272/papers/pdfs/proglangasmusicinstr.pdf It's for the Psychology of Programming Interest Group conference at the end of this month where Alan is presenting it and will hopefully show Ade's TOPLAP video on our behalf. btw, I contributed the central parts waffling about laptop music, live coding history, and the ChucK (pre Audicle) vs Ableton Live analysis, plus a bit at the end about maintenance. All the rest is Alan's hard work. It's written for HCI people so might be a bit entry level on music issues for some points. best, N
