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Recommended for Advanced Listeners Only
Some goodies inspired by (and some taken from) Delton T. Horn’s book titled “The Beginner’s Book of Electronic Music.” While the book is an excellent resource as a “hole”, there are some particularly great passages such as that on musique concrete and the Discography at the end (from whence comes the warning issued in the…
Read MoreTowards a Little Chaos
I’ve been reading through Leonard Smith’s Chaos: a Very Short Introduction in my spare time (twice a month.) It is truly fascinating reading (depending on your definition of fascinating) and absolutely enlightening to a recovering philistine groping at the previously eschewed topics of mathematics, physics, and philosophy*. I’m going to post some of the algorithms/systems…
Read MoreStudie II: i’d forgotten
Recording of Studie II by Karlheinz Stockhausen Studie II When I heard this piece a few days back (for the first time in years) I’d forgotten how fundamentally good this piece is. I’d forgotten the seductive, if abrasive, curves of its mellow, noisy goodness. I’d forgotten the insistent consistency of it. I’d even forgotten my…
Read MoreEl MuCo: Server Code
Follows the testing code: /* El MuCo “Server” 169.254.136.163 – Powerbook self-assigned IP to reset the environment (clear everything – all responders, senders, etc.) currentEnvironment.clear; */ s.boot; SynthDef(“kane”, { |freq = 40| Out.ar([0,1], SinOsc.ar(freq)); }).send(s); // SERVER: set the broadcast flag to true NetAddr.broadcastFlag_(true) //169.254.255.255 = broadcast IP: 57120 is sclang default port ~server =…
Read Moreejecting media from iMac with no manual eject mechanism
It’s happened to us all: we get that new broken iMac and can’t wait to pop a system disc or new OS disc in and make ‘er all better. Then, the unthinkable happens: nothing! No new OS, no ability to boot from disc, and worst of all, the deeeesk — she no come out! There…
Read MoreReset Open Firmware by removing ALL RAM
WARNING: I will not be held responsible for anything you do to your computer. Please follow any of the below instructions at your own risk. Be sure to always follow Apple DIY Hardware Replacement instructions (you can download these for any model in pdf format), use official Apple parts, and use anti-static discharge kits and…
Read MoreMeeting Summary for Jan 24th
Hi all: here follows a brief summary of what went down at today’s get-together. If you don’t feel like reading anything and simply want to know when the next meeting is, it is scheduled for next Saturday, January 31st at 8pm. We’ll code seriously for 3 hours or so, then make with the drinky, and…
Read MoreMeeting Saturday the 24th
Hi all, This is a reminder that we are scheduled to meet this coming Saturday @ 1pm. Please bring a working prototype of your instruments in order to test them with the server. (It would be great to have sound working by the end of the day!) Juraj, can we be in contact about what…
Read MoreEl MuCo: Meeting Notes and Current Plan of Action
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…
Read MoreSimple Semi-Stochastic Music Language Examples
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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