Roger Reynolds at LOC now up

The Library of Congress’s site featuring the music of Roger Reynolds is an outstanding example of what such an organization can do. The site shows the depth of the Library’s holding in a particular are, covering everything from Reynolds’ music to photographs of the composer.
Reynolds has a close working relationship with the LOC; I only [...]

The Hand That Feeds

OS X readers: if you haven’t already done so, pop on over to the Nine Inch Nails website and pick up the GarageBand version of The Hand That Feeds. It’s a fairly typical track; but for that reason it’s pretty interesting.
It’s a great guide to pop song construction. A relatively short track, but with a [...]

Roger Reynolds at the Library of Congress

Looks very interesting; wish I could be there … love to hear from anyone who attends.
American composer Roger Reynolds, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1989, will discuss his work at the introduction and demonstration of a new Library of Congress Web presentation devoted to his music. Thanassis Rikakis, director of Arts, Media and [...]

Live: hey willpower and Amy X. Neuberg

A great evening at The Lab in San Francisco this weekend. I met Tim Walters and his wife Josie (who is an accomplished sculptor) for dinner, and then Tim and I went over to the Lab. To my surprise, we also ran into Tim Thompson, the creator of KeyKit, who I find works round the [...]

Long Now Chimes.app III

Here is a first-cut version of the OS X Long Now Chimes application. The user interface still leaves a lot to be desired, but it makes pretty noises and works. Have fun.
I’ll be working on designing a nice pop-up date setter for later, and better interaction/integration of the interface and the ChucK program.

Long Now Chimes.app II

I was able to get in a little more diddling with the application on the train yesterday; it can now successfully generate a peal for a date (still entered by hand right now, yuck) and play it. Command-. stops the playback as one would hope. It would be nice to get a spinner working (other [...]

A few more messages surface …

I was able to dig a few more random messages out of Google’s Usenet archive by hand-crawling through the earliest archives. A few more messages showed up; unfortunately EMUSIC-D doesn’t seem to have been archived. Pity. Anyway, a few more scraps of volumes 25 and 26 are now available, including one quite thoughtful one from [...]

GarageBand

Apple has added a new iApp, GarageBand, to iLife ‘04. For $49, Mac OS X users can have a decent multi-track recorder and loop compositor. Looks great!

Other lists to consider

Like many, I still like mailing lists for getting a real exchange of ideas, or for at least getting to watch the exchange go by. EMUSIC-L was unique in its time in having a large number of music theorists and academics along with any number of different orientations toward “popular” electronic music.

I haven’t found any [...]

Long Now Chimes.app I

I’ve been working on an OS X application to play the Long Now Chimes. If you’ve visited the previous link, you’ve gotten to hear MIDI versions of the chimes.
The MIDI version’s quite cool, and gives nearly anyone a chance to hear the chimes, but I wanted really chimey chime sounds, and I wanted them to [...]