2011/7/5 alex <alex_at_lurk.org>:
> On 4 July 2011 23:06, Andrew Sorensen <andrew_at_moso.com.au> wrote:
>> Something that aa-cell used in the early days were *live* symbols fed from
>> MIDI controllers. You could type one of these *live* symbols into your code
>> to stream live midi information from a controller (we used to use
>> BCR2000's). This was useful for both continuous (feeding synth params) and
>> more discrete (pitch ranges for chord generation) actions. I think AB still
>> does this a bit but I haven't bothered for quite a few years now. Not
>> really sure why.
>
> This sounds really good, so it's interesting that you discarded it...
> I wonder how Dan (Stowell) feels about beatbox livecoding, Dan if
> you're watching do you feel that you can beatbox and live code without
> breaking the Flow? Can you do both at the same time? I imagine
> coding and extended voice are competing for the same cognitive
> resources..
No, not competing for the same cognitive resources, but the same
cognitive budget. I can do both at the same time only because both
involve plenty of "automatic" actions made of little patterns of
operations (e.g. typing out a little array doesn't take much
concentration once you've decided you're going to do it).
A livecoder might give up using a midi controller for filter sweeps
because it takes their hands away from the keyboard, but maybe not if
the controller is something else like a head-tilt-sensor?
Dan
> What other techniques do live coders try and discard? I remember Ade
> and I making an elaborate protocol for our processes to share
> high-level compositional parameters (complexity, disorder etc) but in
> practice it has no use, better for the humans to be in charge of this
> kind of musical sync perhaps.
>
> alex
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