Software over the rainbow

desearch and revelopment

Category: Programming

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 [...]

Beginning processing workshops in Granollers and Barcelona

After the recent workshop by joan soler-adillon in hangar, we’ve known of two more forthcoming workshops: on October the 16th, 19th, 23th, 26th, 30th and November the 2nd, gerald kogler will teach one at the centro cĂ­vico Golferichs of barcelona. + info on October the 24th, 25th and 26th, federico joselevich will give another one [...]

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. [...]

Talk at Hangar.

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 [...]

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 [...]