- ARCHIVE / Computer Music
- New song: Turborobot
It’s a bit of an electro/eighties-sounding/disco tune.. Here’s the live-coded version: And here’s an audio recording, for the faint-hearted: Turborobot by magicrebirth
- JMusic: music composition in Java
jMusic is a project designed to provide composers and software developers with a library of compositional and audio processing tools. It provides a solid framework for computer-assisted composition in Java™, and is also used for generative music, instrument building, interactive performance, and music analysis. I have no intention to leave Scheme and Impromptu, but when […]
- Ryoji Ikeda
Last week I discovered the work of Ryoji Ikeda [official site] and soon got hooked up by it. It’s kind of strange because if I just listen to the songs without watching the videos that accompany them, they often bore me after a minute or so (with the exception of songs such as data.matrix, or […]
- Scheme and Lisp
If you’re coming from Lisp, and then start using Scheme (or the other way around) there are a few small differences between the two languages that it’s useful to always keep in mind. I tried to do that a number of times, but inevitably I find myself once again wondering: how do you say ‘progn’ […]
- A video that may convince you that LISPers are a bit crazy
Actually it’s not just a video, there’s a book too: Land of Lisp, Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! by Conrad Barski, M.D. …
- Impromptu 2.5 released
Good news for livecoders: a new version of Impromptu is available (direct link to the 2.5 dmg package). Apart from various bug fixes, it looks like as if the major development is the ICR (impromptu compiler runtime), a new set of scheme functions that facilitate the creation of faster bytecode, so that computationally-intensive tasks such […]
- Little brilliant music player: Pico Play
The purpose of Pico Play is very simple: don’t get in the way. You want to listen to music without having to load any heavy application (iTunes included) – but still being able to use all the songs in your iTunes playlist… this is the piece of software you need. And it’s free!
- Learning resources about Scheme
… So you’ve decided to know everything about scheme and rock the world using fast-paced programming environments like Impromptu. Well, I confess I did think that on several occasions, but still I haven’t made it even half way through the schemer pilgmim’s path. But I’ve collected quite a few useful resources in the process, and […]
- Space Invaders for iPhone
A spiced up version of the original space invaders from Taito. It’s 2.99 pounds on the iTunes store, but there’s also a free version of it if you want to try it out! [read also the review on CreativeApplications.net]
- Aviary’ ROC: online free music sequencer
Aviary’s ROC Music Creator is a free online music sequencing tool written using Adobe’s AIR framework. I just tried it, not really what I need right now but I can’t say it’s not a good product: easy to use (you can make music loops and ringtones pretty fast), attractive interface, nice sounds (more than 50 […]