On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:40 +0100, Matthew Yee-King wrote:
> On 05/09/07 16:16, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:55 +0100, Matthew Yee-King wrote:
> >>> Anyone doing any livecode gigs in London anytime soon?
> >> Not me but I'd really like to... Maybe we can organise a jam session
> >> somewhere?
> >
> > I'm experiencing a gig drought too...
> >
> > So are you hooked now Matthew ;)
> >
>
> Yes - I left my MIDI controller keyboard at home for my last gig,
> preferring to code an elegant routine instead of twisting a knob. In
> fact I turned up at a rehearsal for that gig and had even left my
> computer at home. I figured the musicians in this case might not respond
> well to the 'live coding with real musicians' techniques presented by
> Nick C at the livecoding conference so I had to code from scratch using
> a borrowed computer on which I had luckily, previously installed SC3.
> It's a shame that fashions move so fast in the livecoding world - I
> thought I was really 'it', coding from scratch, then came home to read
> the posts about coding from inverse-scratch on this list.
>
> - Matthew
>
> ps Dave - I have obtained some cheap USB joysticks for the purposes of
> strange controller construction but hope to get an install of
> betablocker on the go before I destroy the sticks with a soldering iron.
excellent - pester me for support (I don't think anyone has got
betablocker working other than me ;) I should really make my stuff more
accessible.
having said that, someone was making a betablocker inspired livecoding
app using SDL, but I don't know what happened to that...
cheers,
dave
Received on Fri Sep 07 2007 - 19:00:40 BST