Hi Andrew,
Great to see your article. I'd love to hear more about Andrew and your
current practice efforts as well- do you have any gigs coming up, or what
were your rehearsal procedures and preparations for last year's?
Reading through, not sure I'd agree with 'use of pre-established sound
generators' because quite a lot of live coding in SuperCollider and those
Max/MSP competitions in Belgium, for instance, involves the dynamic
realtime construction of a unit generator graph. Manipulating sound
synthesis algorithms is often one relatively low-level thing we explore.
(you actually tone down this assertion in the next paragraph anyway when
you talk about the continua)
In this context, thought I might just mention that I built a realtime
'instruction synthesis' compiler as a UGen which I showed at high speed at
dorkbot in London before xmas- analogous to some of Dave's work, it seeks
to set up a set of primitive instructions, in this case for breakpoint
synthesis, which can be manipulated on the fly, thus directly live coding
changes to a low-level synthesis algorithm.
Anyway, moving on, I really like this sentence:
'live coding requires not only new performance skills but also new ways of
describing the structures of and processes that create music.'
And this is fun:
'Also underscoring this culture of sharing, is a prioritising of reputation
above (or prior to) profit'
So anonymous releases for all open source in future to avoid charges of any
personal gain? ; )
You ref me for the practice of projection, but I should mention that Alex
has been the most consistent and primary advocate of this since 2000,
though he seems to have had some qualms in recent years ( long the
pro-acousmatic lines you also mention).
And great to see those further new coverage reports/blogs... we should
relocate the TOPLAP head office to Australia ; )
best
Nick
--On 8 January 2007 00:46:06 +1000 Andrew Brown <a.brown_at_qut.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> An article I wrote about some of my views on live coding has
> been published in the online journal M/C (media and culture). Many
> TOPLAP folk get a mention, and a few are cited...
>
>
> Check it out. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0612/03-brown.php
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Andrew Brown
Received on Wed Jan 10 2007 - 09:41:55 GMT