Having purchased 9 electronic children’s toys for the purposes of evil (and paying by the pound $16 total!) Kane and Dusty set out to bend the devices to their will. With the laying-on of hands, ordinary became extraordinary. Following are some pics and a sound clip of the newly “fantastified” PC Picture Phone. PC PicturePhone
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…
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…
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…
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 =…
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…
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…
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…
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…