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:
their disapproval of Collins’ loading of
pre-programmed code fragments with boos and hisses
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.
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.
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.
best
Nick
Received on Fri Feb 22 2008 - 16:18:54 GMT