Hi Ross
Thanks for your feedback. Indeed I am noticing that my tone in the beginning
of the paper is not coming across to readers as I meant it to. I'm sad to
hear that it's causing dismay and disinterest because obviously that's not
at all what I want. As I said, I was insecure about making it public and
that was part of my insecurity. But the feedback I've received from the list
has been great and I'm glad people are taking interest in my thoughts.
And OT: I was mortified to see that I misspelled "cite" as "site" :-S So to
correct myself: please do not "cite" the paper or for that matter don't put
it on a "site" either.
Marcel
On 23/02/2008, Ross Bencina <rossb-lists_at_audiomulch.com> wrote:
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> Hi Marcel
>
> Although I can't corroborate Nick's testimony regarding the Babylonian
> microtonal project (more lack of sleep at the time than the "free" beer
> sadly), from where I was standing at least I don't believe your first
> paragraphs fairly or accurately represent the nature of the performance
> nor
> the audience's response to the performance practices of each performer.
> This
> is unfortunate because it has left me disinterested with reading the
> remainder of your potentially interesting paper.
>
> I understand that everyone sees an event differently, and it is certainly
> a
> risky proposition to try to use your own perspective on a public event as
> the starting point for a paper.. but you could at least temper your
> comments
> with an explicit qualification of their subjectivity.
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> Best wishes
>
> Ross
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Collins" <nc272_at_cam.ac.uk>
> To: <livecode_at_toplap.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 3:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [livecode] code taunts
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> Hi Marcel,
>
> your work is very interesting and I wish I could attend one of your public
> battles! Thanks for sharing the paper. Just to clarify, this isn't my
> recollection of the Barcelona contest:
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> their disapproval of Collins' loading of
> pre-programmed code fragments with boos and hisses
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> I spent the first ten minutes just coding a complex microtonal system
> based
> on the Babylonian square root algorithm. I then explored this with sound
> from around 10-15 minutes in; but all was from scratch.
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> after 15 mins, when Ge had dropped out to recompile ChucK, I had to switch
> to working with some other stuff just to cover (in retrospect I should
> have
> worked further on the Babylonian material, but panicked); but I did so
> within my live coding environment, and was live coding throughout, though
> less from scratch and more by modification.
>
> It was Ge who ran preprogrammed presets in the first half of the
> competition. However, neither of us had anticipated the public competition
> aspect would be so dominant, and our preparations were very different to
> what turned out to be required. I make my full confession in the 2007 NIME
> paper. I typed what I should have typed had I prepared for battle, in my
> movie posted the other day.
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> I was the most disappointed by that gig of any I've been involved with,
> but
> a great learning experience under real-time constraints! I had been
> practising for weeks before, but not the right material, and had to adapt
> to the setting in a way that I wasn't prepared for. Note that I make no
> defence of the quality of that 2005 concert.
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> best
> Nick
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