In the tradition of TOPLAPapp, I've released a new free musical live coding puzzle for iPhone:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/riscy/id423084182?mt=8
RISCy is a drag and drop synthesizer puzzle full of sonic perturbation. You live code via the limited instruction set in the lower part of the interface; drag out tokens to the top area to build your synth graph, drag a token back off the top area to remove it. Each token has an aural consequence, and some special tokens also change the nature of the hidden graph connecting active tokens; puzzling out these relationships is part of the fun. You'll be able to make lots of noisy sounds as well as generative sequenced patterns. Press ! to clear the graph and reset; press ? to get a random starting point. Download RISCy if you are open to stranger computer music, and avoid it if you just want diatonic melodies and piano sounds!
Props to Alex for pushing towards graphical live coding consequences in Text:
http://yaxu.org/text/
Where previously I've been hacking from scratch, I built this app with Open Frameworks for iPhone:
http://www.openframeworks.cc/
Very relaxing to avoid all Objective C and just work in C++!
Received on Fri Mar 04 2011 - 09:03:07 GMT