hi,
here are rendered mp3s of my recent practising sessions. music quality
varies...
http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/music/livecodePractice-aug06/
they're all coded from scratch (synthesis, patterns etc) in ~1hour
using plain jitlib. the sourcecode is available here... (you might
need to copy&paste or select all to see it as i accidentally colorised
all the documents)
http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/818
so rather than listening to the static mp3s above, i'd recommend to
download supercollider and play [with] the code.
i think i've identified two problems. first the getting-started and
then the getting-on-when-you-finally-got-started.
in the beginning there's always the empty document... uhu. so setting
up a little task to solve or having an idea of some soundscape i'd like
to create seemed to help. it was usually ideas like use fm-synthesis
today or make soft drone sounds tonight. still, many times it started
out sounding just awful and i got more and more stressed trying fix it.
anyone recognise this feeling? ;-) but pulling some tricks (usually
distortion or delay effects :-) and focusing in on a few details -
muting other sounds - i think i managed shape all the code to become
somewhat okey sounding in the end. i only reset the clock and started
all over from scratch twice.
and then when i got nice processes going, it has been hard to let go of
that and continue with something different. so the resulting music
above is most often just a single 'theme' or process. i feel i'd have
to rehears a lot more to be able to do abrupt form changes or to have
multiple elements to build up bigger structures over time with. i soft
of got stuck in the a of the aba form. it would've been nice to go
abac etc. perhaps that the 1h time limit made you reluctant to start
something new 45minutes in as that'd have probably been left hanging.
but these 1hour sessions has mostly been lots of fun. recommended and
i'd be up for another practising duel for october. anyone?
per recent discussion here - i don't agree with thor in that livecoding
should lack the instant feedback you'd get from physical instrument.
in many of the later sessions i felt like i was in total control over
the sounds and where the music was going - at least for parts of the
practising time. sometimes it was enough changing just one discrete
parameter, other times i kept re-coding say an lfo to take different
shapes - great fun and the feedback was absolutely quick and direct.
(although maybe not as predicable as a real instrument all the time.
randomness, syntax errors and brain farts added to the sounds. but
humans are brilliant in auto adapting and making them crazy sounds
their own. (or quickly find excuses like: yes i _really wanted to
distort everything here right now ;-))
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