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desearch and revelopment

Category: ChucK

Meanwhile, near by…

An openFrameworks workgroup has started this week at Hangar. Every thursday until March, the wise Arturo will be there helping you with any doubt that you have. From 19 to 21 pm. +info The equally talented Chris Sugrue will be doing the same in Madrid’s Medialab. Every friday from 19 to 21pm. +info Last, and [...]

On ChucK, Terry Riley, Jim Bumgardner and emulating old masters through code

So this morning I found that someone had already done an idea which I had been thinking of for some time (probably since I did the Steve Reich’s Clapping Music version in ChucK): Source code for “In C” by Terry Riley in ChucK No problem. With the amount of information we have a few clicks [...]

Chuck jedit edit mode updated for 1.2.0.7

ChucK has gone through some api changes and tasty additions (low, band, high and stop pass filters…) in its last revision. I’ve just updated the edit mode which I did for JEdit. You can get it from here: Chuck jedit mode updated for 1.2.0.7 For instructions on how to install, have a look at the [...]

JEdit for ChucK

In my never ending search for a one-size-fits-all code editor, I’ve been trying JEdit for the last couple of weeks. Reasons? With some plugins, it’s said to be a good choice for ruby on rails; toxi published an edit mode and a lot of abbreviations which speed up the work with processing; it’s multi-platform; and [...]

Unclapping music

So I have begun trying to learn chuck again. To do it, I took alex maclean‘s advice to the letter: …my best advice when looking for inspiration is to listen to your favorite pieces of music. Listen to the structure behind a piece and think about how you might write an algorithm to create that [...]

Sketchiness.

That is, some of my friends growing up tend to draw, you know whenever. Start a sketch, doodle in class, pick up something, refine it, etc. Anyway, these folks end up getting really good, less out of diligent patience than iterated and distracted practice. [...] For a process to be sketchy, or like sketching, it [...]

Plork

La princeton laptop orchestra (plork) es un experimento audio-performa-educativo del mismo equipo que desarrolla el lenguaje de programación chuck (del cual ya hemos hablado por aquí) . Como ellos mismos dicen, “auna muchos de nuestros intereses estéticos y de investigación como músicos, compositores y programadores” … de los míos también. Daría un brazo y medio [...]