El MuCo: Meeting Notes and Current Plan of Action

By Scott Petersen | December 18, 2008

Members of El MuCo: The intricately lain plans of this evening are here reproduced in all their glory. But, for those who could not make the meeting, some interpretation may be necessary. Here follows some of the decisions arrived at in tonight’s meeting. 1) We’ve settled on a server-client model where the server is stupid…

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Simple Semi-Stochastic Music Language Examples

By Scott Petersen | December 17, 2008

An article in the June 1979 issue of Computer Music Journal (Vol.3, No.2, Jun., 1979) inspired me to see how easy it would be to impliment “very simple” examples of semi-stochastic music in SuperCollider.  The algorithmic function is the focus of the following examples, which took about 10 minutes to code.  The code uses two…

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meeting on the 17th

By Scott Petersen | December 14, 2008

Hello all: It has become apparent, because of concert schedules and holiday plans, Wednesday is the only day this week we can meet.  Lets aim for Wednesday at 5:15 at the Anchor Bar like the last meeting.  We will discuss the server structure in-depth and plan for the next meeting. -s

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prophetic words…

By Scott Petersen | December 9, 2008

Max Matthews from an interview in September, 1978 Could you look into your crystal ball and tell us what we can expect in this field during the next decade? One thing we can certainly expect is that computer instruments will become very cheap, very cheap compared to conventional instruments.  As a result, I think we’re…

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