Software over the rainbow

desearch and revelopment

Category: Music

Software politics: Itunes

I don’t mind listening to Steve Reich after Stereolab. Ornette Coleman is not bad after Odd Nosdam. Beans and Beastie Boys are a good couple too… but I can’t stand Daft punk after Daedelus, nor Dizzee Rascal after Dinosaur Jr; and I just hate listening to Cat Power everytime I finish listening to Caribou. Definitely, [...]

More branches, objects, sounds and empty rooms.

Chelpa ferro is a brazillian collective of visual, video and audio artists. As with Jessica Rylan, I don’t really know how their installations sound like, but I love them. More chelpa ferro via

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 [...]

Daedelus played live in barcelona

Charming, brilliant, crazy, amazing… Almost like this, you get the idea. If you have a chance of seeing him, don’t say that i didn’t tell you.

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 [...]

Supercollider for windows: Psycollider

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. [...]

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 [...]