Hi Sylvain,
2009/9/1 Sylvain <artheist_at_gmail.com>:
> What I guess, is that your project is to have fun and make music with others
> (to drink beer to) as I do. And that you didn't know about toplap when you
> set it up. Anders so, das ist schlimm !
It's nice if TOPLAP can be a place for all people to talk about live
coding/patching and feel they belong, but I understand people were
doing from-scratch performance in pd and likely max, before TOPLAP was
formed. In any case, coding in max and pd with live interpretation
was normal before chuck/sc3/impromptu/fluxus was written.
> Now, I don't see any relevant ground for making it bounded to Pd/Max, unless
> narrow-minding, or ignorance (don't take it personally, I am a bit
> provocative, on purpose)
I agree there is no line to draw between pd/max and other programming
languages. The only real difference is that pd and max require use of
the mouse. On its own that doesn't make them more visual or artistic.
They are pure side effect languages, and have IDEs which (try to)
enforce syntactical correctness, but that's true of other programming
languages/IDEs too. I don't think it's unhealthy to have events
around particular languages though. Max and PD are dialects of the
same language, letting in supercollider might be a bit like having an
event about French literature and not letting in any talks in English,
which seems fair enough.
cheers,
alex
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Received on Tue Sep 01 2009 - 13:11:47 BST