The End of My Career at SoundWalk Long Beach This Weekend
This week Erin and I will be down in Long Beach to participate in SoundWalk 2013. The End of My Career will be played at one of the locations.
Sonifying Processing
Sonifying Processing shows students and artists how to bring sound into their Processing programs. It takes a hands-on approach, incorporating examples into every topic that is discussed. Each section of the book explains a sound programming concept then demonstrates it in code. The examples build from simple synthesizers in the first few chapters, to more complex sound-manglers as the book progresses. Each step of the way is examined at a level that is simple enough for new learners, and comfortable for more experienced programmers.
Topics covered include Additive Synthesis, Frequency Modulation, Sampling, Granular Synthesis, Filters, Compression, Input/Output, MIDI, Analysis and everything else an artist may need to bring their Processing sketches to life.
"Sonifying Processing is a great introduction to sound art in Processing. It's a valuable reference for multimedia artists." - Beads Creator Oliver Bown
Sonifying Processing is available as a free pdf ebook, in a Kindle edition, or in print from Amazon.com.
Downloads
Sonifying Processing The Beads Tutorial
The Beads Library was created by Oliver Bown, and can be downloaded at http://www.beadsproject.net/.
Press
Sonifying Processing on Peter Kirn's wonderful Create Digital Music
What Will Come from the Vacuum
This week What Will Come from the Vacuum is being played in Trauenkirchen, Germany, as part of a exhibition called Physik und Musik. This piece was written as a response to images of scientific equipment.
Office Problems #80 – Stealing Breast Milk
I really enjoyed working with Brandon Buczek on the score for the newest episode of Office Problems.
Creativity in Algorithmic Music
In this essay I am going to review the topic of creativity in algorithmic music [1], focusing on three perspectives on creativity offered by three groups of composers. The first section will review the definition of creativity offered by computational psychologist Margaret Boden. The second section will examine one possible measure of creativity. The next section will look at three different composers, their attitudes toward creativity and the way their algorithms embody those attitudes. Finally, I will critically examine the core questions that are being asked by algorithmic composers.