Hi All,
just another pin to throw in the stack/
I recently did a show in Mexico city where I had 6 PCs, my laptop and a
gameboy running nanoloop.
I had all the outputs running throgh a mixing desk and I had a channel
switcher for the vdu projector.
Each machine was running a different peice of audio(visual) software I had
written.
(Bitmapseq,Avseq, PD patches etc etc)
http://www.nullpointer.co.uk/-/images/mexico1.jpg
I moved from machine to machine, opening/closing and interacting with
applications,
while also keeping track visually with the switcher and mixing on the desk.
The performance was about 45mins during which I improvised with the software
and
followed various emerging themes etc. I guess it wasnt livecode as such
(even though certain elements were)
but more like an equivalent of vinyl mixing your own dubplates... needless
to say it was great fun to
play (and I'm told to watch) and was quite exhausting running between and
balancing all the different elements.
The next day I ran a PD workshop with all the PCs networked to a master
ether clock, people were
writing simple instruments that were triggered by the shared tempo, it added
up to a nice/strange
consensual coding/jamming thing..
( hope i dont sound like i'm blowing my trumpet too much here ;) )
I'm quite intrigued by this aspect of multiple systems on multiple
machines..
I know alex runs a lot of perl apps concurrently and I've taken to multi
tasking audio apps on one machine,
I guess SC server sort of works in a similar way, but have people worked
much with this sort of distributed
composition/processing?
Tom
http://www.nullpointer.co.uk
http://www.r4nd.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Griffiths" <dave_at_pawfal.org>
To: <livecode_at_slab.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [livecode] introducing nullpointer
> On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 13:08, tom_at_nullpointer.co.uk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think you probably mostly know me anyhow...
> > I did qqq, bitmapsequencer etc.
> > I'm currently co-running rand()% www.r4nd.org
> > which i strongly urge you all to contribute to...
>
> any chance of a linux server? I have some code - but it's
> linux/alsa/jack.
>
> > anyhow, I'm quite into live coding, but as an aspect of generative
systems,
> > in otherwords most live coding is evolutionary in its practice,
> > trying various combos/subroutes etc and pruning/growing chosen
directions.
> > Generative systems are often a major aid to such coding approaches,
> > allowing the experimentation to occur independently within
evolving/changing
> > subroutes etc.
>
> I'm interested in this approach too - genetic programming could be seen
> as a very rapid way to livecode, the abilitity to get in there and
> modify code manually which is then present in the genome, or mutate code
> once you had handwritten it live - interchangably - would be very
> powerful.
>
> I'm playing with a very simple form of this for my placard performance,
> but as it's my first time playing any form of music live, it err, could
> be interesting... ;)
>
> dave
>
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 15 2004 - 15:14:52 BST
