[CM] Performance of Scheme for Max + modular synth algorithmic etude

Dudley Brooks dbrooks at runforyourlife.org
Mon May 3 11:44:32 PDT 2021


On 5/3/21 8:07 AM, Iain Duncan wrote:

> Hi, yeah I'm not surprised, I mean conceptually, it's dead simple. It 
> was really a study to explore how much change in the sequencing 
> algorithm could produce over ultra-simple base material, so not 
> surprising to hear similar things have been done. In that sense, I 
> feel the piece was a success, in that it produced a lot of variety 
> with core cohesion from a very small set of changes. I do plan on 
> working on weightier material in a similar approach later!
>
> thanks for checking it out!

Thanks for doing it!

> iain
>
> On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 10:24 AM Dudley Brooks 
> <dbrooks at runforyourlife.org <mailto:dbrooks at runforyourlife.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 4/27/21 5:39 AM, Brandon Hale wrote:
>
>>     Hey Iain,
>>
>>     Thank you for sharing your work and how it was made. I would be
>>     interested in watching a livestream where you work on this in
>>     realtime, if that's something you would like to do.
>>
>>     Did you have a score on how you altered the synthesizer, or was
>>     that improvised?
>>
>>     Thank you again for sharing,
>>
>>     Brandon Hale
>>
>>     On 4/27/21 12:26 AM, Iain Duncan wrote:
>>>     Hi folks, just thought I'd share the fruits of one of my term
>>>     projects - my first working algorithmic etude for Scheme for
>>>     Max + modular synthesizer. (The recording of which may or may
>>>     not have prompted the order of a bunch more modules... haha)
>>>
>>>     Performance
>>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcLWTjN4qBI
>
>     Do you know Rzewski's "Coming Together"?  I assume that the
>     resemblance is coincidental.  But Rzewski's piece could easily
>     have been generated algorithmically -- its mathematical structure
>     is rather obvious.
>
>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wczJlxoxITE
>
>>>     Walk-through of how it was made:
>>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg7B8h4yHkU
>>>
>>>     Beginning of the book on writing sequencers in s4m, which has
>>>     not yet gotten to the point used in the composition mind you..
>>>     https://iainctduncan.github.io/s4m-stk
>>>
>>>     Hope you enjoy, as usual thanks to everyone who's work has made
>>>     this possible!
>>>     iain
>>>
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