In fact I am.
I won't be livecoding the 21st but I'll be "live programming".
I'll be programming my home-build sequencer/drummachine through the use of
arcade-style game controllers, in fact I'll have to because I intentionally
didn't include pattern storage facilities in it.
The philosophy behind this is that with game-controllers you can take more
advantage of muscle memory then with a X0X style interface which
could/should open up more bandwidth between the performer and the data in
the sequencer thus enabling me to move out of the "presentation of
pre-prepared material" idea that's so boring about most dance-music
performances.
I developed this out of ChucK, some Nord Modular patches (that are kinda
interwoven with the ChucK structure) and a set of game controllers through
Playstation => USB converters. ( HORI "real arcade pro" joystick and two
"beatmania" controllers, for those into that sort of thing). Also; there is
no graphical feedback, partially to focus on the sound, partially to deal
with it all on a more physical level.
The positive side to this is that it's very live and exciting to do and at
times quite intuitive, the downside is that it's also kinda easy to mess up,
more or less like livecoding but to a lesser degree. In fact I would be
quite surprised if there weren't one or two songs that would degrade into a
monotonous unstructured mess. I urgently need about a year's worth of daily
practice with this but I'm improving, lately...
So, that's it, not quite completely off-topic. The concept could be taken
further, for example by combining it with livecoding but my current setup is
quite coherent so it'll take a very good new idea before I change a lot
about it, not in the last place because I need more experience with this
fairly simple form.
I'm planning to attend the Saturday SC gig and see what people are up to, I
noticed Cylob is playing so I'm interested in that because he also wrote his
own sequencer and I'm quite curious about Fredrik.
Cheers,
Kas.
On 9/15/07, Nick Collins <nc272_at_cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Kassen,
>
> are you the same Kassen who is playing this coming Friday in the Todays
> Art
> festival in the Hague? We're all going to be in town for the SuperCollider
> symposium. You have a fun programme note if so, but I'm not sure you'll be
> doing any live coding from what I read there...
>
> Adrian of course is playing in the Saturday SC event in a week's time...
>
> best,
> Nick
>
>
> --On 14 September 2007 14:31:24 +0200 Kassen <signal.automatique_at_gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On 9/14/07, a.vca <vacca_at_goto10.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> May the SporK (or whatever you call it in ChucKian) be with you.
> > i think you mean SphUngE
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm sorry, you're going to have to explain this, Google only came up
> with
> > some islands in Minnesota and I'd like to know what's going to be with
> > me. You know, in case I need to cook for more people or have shots or
> > whatever.
> >
> > In case there is confusion; "spork" is a ChucK command that starts a new
> > process parallel to the one you're calling from, this allows you to run
> > two endless loops next to each other, for example. I imagine it's a
> > contraction of "spawn" and "fork" but I might be wrong. "spork" can also
> > be applied to a wide range of non-programming contexts, right now I
> don't
> > have the time to go into the exact syntax and semantics of this.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kas.
>
>
>
>
>
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