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Posts from ‘November, 2003’

Crossing the Horizon: Elaine Walker / Chaos Melody Theory

Elaine Walker has done some interesting stuff with iterated function systems, mapping points in both the real line and the complex plane to melodies. Melodies that almost but don’t quite repeat, and which vector off at strange angles from your expectations. Hynotic minimalist metallic sculptures. What Philip Glass might sound like if he came [...]

A surfeit of options

I hadn’t really looked around for a while at my computer synthesis options. It turns out the a surprising number of things that I had tried previously under Mac OS 9 were now available under OS X and working much better than before. There’s a lot more open-source and free software available now.
jMax is a [...]

MOTU Performer owners - a cry for help

Update: less than a day after I posted this item, James Parker offered his help. Thanks, James!
I got mail from a gentleman who is facing a problem that I’m afraid may be far too common in the future:
I inherited after my father’s death, a collection of his compositions in the form of midi files. They [...]

The EMUSIC-L Jukebox

Once upon a time, before MP3s became ubiquitous and streaming audio became a possibility, I floated the idea of an EMUSIC-L “jukebox” - links to music by the members of the list.
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I’m still considering the possibility; ibiblio has lots of disk space and bandwidth, and it’s no longer a problem for people to either encode [...]

ICMC 2004

Start prepping now, folks:
The University of Miami Frost School of Music, in conjunction with the International Computer Music Association, is pleased to announce that the International Computer Music Conference 2004 is scheduled for 1-6 November, 2004 at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, USA. The conference will feature multiple daily concerts of [...]