Posts Tagged ‘computer music’
Running A University Linux-based Audio Lab: Part 2 — Linux Audio
“Running a Linux Audio Lab was fun, he said! You should try it, he said! He didn’t say anything about ALSA and JACK and Pulseaudio! Aaaaaah!” -Horrified individual the first time they try to get low-latency audio working in Linux with an Ubuntu base. To be clear, in Part I of this series I never…
Read MoreRunning A University Linux-based Audio Lab: Part 1 — Overview
This is part one of a three-part series of articles describing how and why you can use Linux in your college or university’s music/audio lab. In this article I will provide a broad overview of what I do in the CS music/audio lab at Yale and why I do it.
Read MoreSculpting Gestural Space with Envelopes Part 1
Introduction Use of voltage control amplitude envelopes became standard in the 1960s after they were implemented by Moog on the evolving Moog Synthesizer (1964-1965). In the digital domain the envelope realizes its true potential as a variable function of change over time more akin to the use of lines (stochastic calculus, probability curves, ruled surface)…
Read MorePractice
This will be a quick post about my recent practice making electronic and computer music. My creative process has always been… complicated. A contributing factor may be that I rarely reuse compositional systems or take on projects that closely resemble previous ones. I have diverse and varied interests so there’s always something pulling me away…
Read MoreCreate Spectrograms of SuperCollider Code using Sox
This first installment of my algorithms project has one primary goal, to automate as much as possible the creation of spectrogram files for use online and in teaching materials. For this and for all future posts I will upload the source files (only my original code and none of the artifacts of running said code)…
Read MoreSuperCollider on CrunchBang Linux
[UPDATE] This post has been updated to reflect better practices. Following my post for installing SC3.6 on Ubuntu (Xubuntu) where I advised readers of the awesomeness of #! (CrunchBang) linux I have decided to post a quick how-to for getting SC3.6 IDE installed on your CrunchBang system.
Read More(tiny) Nifty Codez
I realize from looking through this site that I need to start posting more code (and resulting recordings.) Part of my motivation is that SC3 (now 3.4!) never ceases to amaze me with its possibilities. One can, with a very small amount of code, achieve some incredibly intricate, beautiful sounds. The below is one example.…
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