Archive for September, 2006

Supercollider for windows: Psycollider

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

I don’t remember how I arrived at sonenvir, a

research project that investigates applying sonification in a number of scientific disciplines, in order to develop a general sonification software environment.

but after seeing Psycollider , I’m really glad I did.

Psycollider is a windows port of the popular Supercollider real time audio synthesis programming language. As far as I know, it used to be only for the mac. Then there was a Linux version and someone was working on a Windows one, but this port seemed too outdated and inactive for me to bother trying it.

Yesterday, when I found it with a nice installer and simple instructions, I couldn’t resist installing it, and after figuring out a couple of oddities, I’ve been able to make some noise…

More on this to come soon, I guess.

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Maintenance finished: New features

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

I’ve finished (at least for today) tweaking the blog. Some new features:

  • Two languages: From now on, i can provide posts in both spanish and english. Thanks to the polyglot plugin, users in either language will only see the post in its own language (which will be decided by the default language in your web browser). You can also grab rss feeds of both languages (see the footer of the page). If you are already subscribed to the blog, you will be receiving the english version. If you prefer the spanish one, subscribe to the rss en español. This doesn’t mean i will be posting everything in both languages, but i’ll try to do my best.
  • Tags: Now you can see tags at the end of each post and navigate using them. You can also see a fashionable tag cloud in the sidebar. Plugin: Ultimate tag warrior
  • Weekly favourite artists: You can also see a nice list of the musicians that have kept better care of my ears during the last week, as provided by last.fm and the scrobbler plugin
  • Permalinks: better url readability

There are still some things to do, like translating categories and adding (removing) some csstyling. But that’s pretty much it for now. Please, let me know any errors, comments…

*Nota: si ves esto a través de un lector de rss y quieres ver la entrada en castellano, ven al site.

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Don’t panic

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

I’m performing some upgrading-fixing changing here, so expect funny things during the next (hopefully) hours.

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Talk at Hangar.

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

So yesterday I gave a talk about my experience with processing at the begining processing workshop which is being held at Hangar by Joan Soler.

First part was about my reasons for learning-using-loving processing and how I’ve managed to use it in a commercial context. Then I went into a tutorial explaining the ascii video sketch. Finally i improvised an explanation of a del.icio.us information visualization project I had done at a previous workshop, which i think turned to be the most interesting thing for the audience.

It was my first experience as a speaker and although i don’t think it went too bad, the ascii tutorial didn’t work as I expected. Going too deep into code details doesn’t seem to be approppriate for a one hour session. Lesson learned.

Anyway, here are the slides (in spanish only) and the source files for the ascii tutorial.

Thanks very much to Joan for inviting me and to all the assistants for not leaving the room.

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