2008/5/3 AlgoMantra <algomantra_at_gmail.com>:
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> Hm, makes sense. I'm more interested at this point in understanding the
> mathematics of sound, rather than creating any musical variety of it...
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Yes, I suspected so. That's a practical thing to know about too and entirely
realistic, there are books on this, people to ask, tests to run... But if I
were you I'd do it in ChucK and not shell-scripting.... but who am I?
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> I guess the issue I am addressing is the "combinatorial efficiency" of any
> alphabet, at the point where it is being encoded with meaning and becoming a
> language. That aside,...at some point in the nearing present, a lot of live
> music is going to be made with the help of small microcontrollers instead of
> laptops, in fact, it already is.
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Sure, I have a few right here, I call them "digital synths". Right now the
trend seems to be away from hardware synths and towards laptops but yes.
I think we have some quite nice languages/alphabets for this. A few days ago
I had to explain how sines can be summed to approach a square wave and found
that after a intro in crude drawings and Dutch it worked better to explain
this directly in ChucK and add 15 or so harmonics in as many seconds.
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>> I dunno.... me, I just want world-peace, 6 or so more hours to the day, a
>> bit of love every once in a while.... and another cup of coffee. Some of
>> that might be a bit much to ask so I started with the most attainsable one.
>>
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> Sigh. I know its coffee.
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:¬)
I am sure what I'm asking for is too much, it isn't a joke. I was able to
> learn whatever little
> computing (language(s)) I do because I am fairly well educated in English,
> which has played middleman to this part of the world for 300 years. I just
> want to be able to encounter a medium as universal as the drum (bang that
> thing!) within computer music.
>
Yes, I see... But I'd point out that while the drum is universal, making it
speak in a elloquent way requires a lot of practice. I'd reccomend that you
try to get a lot of practice coding.
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> That's precisely my fear. I don't trust things I don't fully comprehend.
> Because that makes me defendant on someone who I don't know. Speaking of
> drivers, I have no sound in my XP because Conexant don't love me, and no
> wifi in my Ubuntu because Broadcomm wants my blood. By the time I figure out
> how to write my own, I am dead certain that music would have left my life
> for good.
>
No? hmmmm, trust can take many forms. I trust my friends even if I don't
fully comprehend them, based on years of experience with them. I trust
public transports, even if I don't fully comprehend them and they could
theoretically go off in random directions instead of the one labeled on
them. I suppose this is a matter of how much I comprehend them, the risk and
my desire to go places.
I feel more or less the same about soundcards and their drivers.
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> No, it's not even a concept yet. It's alright, if I could explain it
> completely, I would have made it already :)
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Yes, I see. I fear all I can do at that point is wich you the best of luck,
bro.
:¬)
Yours,
kas.
Received on Sat May 03 2008 - 12:01:12 BST