You could use autocompletion, and build up macros and patches
beforehand. Make it persistent. A MUD/MUCK might be good. Populate it
with scripts and jam in there, multiple live programming musicians. :-)
Go from room to room to make different tunes, take the performance to
each room as it's ready.
OT, this just gave me the most amazing idea. An IF interpreter in first
or third person (rather than an imperative one) so that the complete
transcript reads as normal fiction. So "I" or the character's name
would be the prompt...
- Rob.
On 23 Sep 2004, at 10:06, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> i like this idea a lot, you'd have to be a demon typer, but it would be
> fun. I once saw someone "VJ" by playing text adventure games on a c64
> :)
>
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 08:35, Craig Latta wrote:
>> hey there--
>>
>> Yesterday I had a rather strange idea. I had been working on a novel
>> approach to "interactive fiction" (see http://netjam.org/cloak ,
>> which I
>> have working). I developed a rather useful parser for english. I
>> started
>> thinking about other kinds of conversations I could have with it, and
>> realized that conversations about musical structure and performance
>> might be interesting. Now I think it would make a nice vehicle for
>> musical livecoding:
>>
>> - The exchanges are all in natural language, making them relatively
>> easy
>> for an audience to follow, and perhaps even poetic.
>>
>> - The conversation can take place with high-contrast text on a black
>> background, making projection (and mixing with other projections)
>> straightforward.
>>
>> - Multiple people can interact in it at once, over the net (perhaps
>> even
>> including audience members and/or remote parties).
>>
>> - It can fulfill various mundane show tasks (e.g., have a "room"
>> which,
>> when entered, plays the pre-show background music).
>>
>> Here's a sample transcript, which I also have working:
>>
>> ***
>>
>> You are immersed in silence.
>>
>> silence> create and enter a room called "livecoding"
>>
>> You're in the livecoding room.
>>
>> the livecoding room> define an "oon" as a bassdrum pitch on the 10th
>> channel, at full volume
>>
>> Okay.
>>
>> the livecoding room> define a "cha" as a hihat pitch on the 10th
>> channel, at full volume
>>
>> Okay.
>>
>> the livecoding room> define an "ooncha" as an oon followed by a cha
>>
>> Okay.
>>
>> the livecoding room> create an ooncha
>>
>> Okay, added an ooncha to the livecoding room.
>>
>> the ooncha> set your duration to a quarter
>>
>> Okay, my duration is a quarter.
>>
>> the ooncha> set your tempo to 120 bpm
>>
>> Okay, my tempo is 120 bpm.
>>
>> the ooncha> play repeatedly
>>
>> Okay, I'm playing repeatedly.
>>
>> the ooncha> stop
>>
>> Okay, I stopped.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> Thoughts? I'd also be delighted to receive suggestions in the form of
>> potential transcripts.
>>
>>
>> thanks, take care,
>>
>> -C
>>
>> --
>> Craig Latta
>> improvisational musical informaticist
>> craig_at_netjam.org
>> www.netjam.org
>> [|] Proceed for Truth!
>>
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