> So we have some new members, please introduce yourselves - what are you
> livecoding and why? Or if you're not livecoding right now, why not?
Ah, yes, thanks to Alex for so swiftly replying to my bug-report about the
list subscription thingy.
I'm Kassen. i've been making various forms of electronic music for a while
now.
I've also been releasing and playing some experimental techno and
sound-track-ish things and next to that I've been helping some friends make
and release disco and electro.
And when it comes down to it I don't realy like sequencers.
That's not entirely true; I like things like sequencer modules in modular
systems, especially "open" ones like the Serge TKB or various digital
emulation of things like that but Cubase, Logic and so on never worked for
me. Ableton is ok.
So; for the longest time I'd program all of my paterns in huge stacks of
Nord Modular sequencer and logic modules, then recordings of this would be
thrown into some wave editor, regioned untill my video card had trouble
dealing with it and cut up. That didn't seem to make all that much sense in
the long run so I started looking elsewhere for things that made sense to
me. These days I do use MIDI but I don't really like it, halfway into the
process it starts to feel like I'm abusing MIDI, soon therafter it looses
any semblance of order.
Currently I'm fooling around with Renoise (a tracker) and on and off with
ChucK.
Live-coding got my attention because there seems to be a certain directness
to it; my ChucK skills are hardly of a quality that would make one want to
listen to a whole piece and most certainly I wouldn't be comfortable with
people watching me write one yet but there seems to be a certain edge to
jaming with it. I've certainly been having more fun jamming with ChucK then
writing, then rendering, Csound.
So; when it comes down to it I'm simply curious what people are doing with
this stuff, how and why. I also admire the Toplap ideal of projecting your
schreen because I think there are simply too many people that are using
Ableton as a 500 bucks Winamp playlist. I feel the laptop should have the
same charm as the flute in a sheppard's pocket; a instrument you can keep
with you, write or play wherever you are so you become intimate with the
instrument; not a sort of schreen to hide your hands to keep a audience away
from your instrument.
I think that about covers it for now.
Kas.
Received on Sat Apr 15 2006 - 22:57:39 BST