Author: Charles Céleste Hutchins

Collaborative programmable music. Runs in LISP (dialect of LISP?) that runs in the JVM.  It’s got concurrency stuff. It’s programmable. It runs in Clojure.

Deals with the SC server.  This sort of looks like it’s running in emacs…

All SC Ugens are available.  He built a bunch of metadata for this, a lot like the SC classes for the Ugens.  There is in-line documentation, which is nice.  The Node-tree shows all currently running UGens.

Midi events are received as events and can be used by any function. Wiggle your nano controller.  This came with the JVM.  So all Java libraries are supported.  OSC support. Serial support.

Synth code and musical expression code can be written in the same language.  Specify phrases in a score, concat them.  The language is relatively readable. as far as lisp goes.  Most things are immutable, so this is good for concurrence. Too many variables can confuse the programmer.

He’s using a monome. Every button call has a function, which has the X,Y coordinate, whether it’s pressed or released and a history of all other button presses.

Now he’s doing some mono-controlled dubstep.

C-Gens are re-usable UGen trees, possible a bit like synthdefs. Can do groups also.

This can also use Processing.org stuff, because it’s got java.  OpenGL graphics also supported. They can hook into any UGen

Anything can be glued together.

This is kind of cool. But you need to deal with both java and lisp.

Questions

• Collaboration?  It helps you deal with shared state, without blocking or locking.

by Chris Satinger (aka Felix Crucial)

Mx is a tool for connecting objects together.  audio, control, midi etc

Anything that plays on a bus, the bus can go in and it can be put on a mixer.

This mixer is a GUI thing. You can use it just to glue on things like fadeouts or amplitude control.

Just write a descriptor file.

The system is not the gui, it’s the patching framework.

You can patch synthdefs together. and edit the synthdefs on the fly.

This patches things a wee bit like PD.

It checks for bad values and prevents explosions.

There is no time line system. It’s a hosting system and only manages connections and starts and stops. You can put in other timelines

It uses environment variables. ~this is the unit.

~this.sched(32, { … }, { … })

You can put documents in the Mx. Those can change the Mx as it runs, so it’s all very self-modifying. (When I was an undergrad, they told me this was naughty, but like many other naughty things, it can be very cool.)

Things have outlets and inlets that you can connect.   There is apparently a querying system which we will learn about.

He gets good music out of the system despite having no idea what’s going on a lot of the time

Dragging cables is fun for a while, but then…

Questions

• Adaptors? The describe what an object is and describes the inlets and outlets.  There’s also a system for announcements. Cable strategies also define behaviours.

Dave – 

Esoteric programming languages are an interesting thing we might care about.

CPUs in mine craft – you can see the processing.

Space invaders assembler with lines showing the order of execution.

Very slow execution can show what’s going on. This can be sonified.

 Till – 

BetaBlocker is a quark in sc3-plugins

(talk to him if you want to go work in helsinki)

BBlocker never crashes, but it  might not do anything.  It has a stack and a heap and a program counter.

This is like Dave’s grid on the DS, where it runs in an infinite loop.

UGens

DetaBlockerBuf – is a demand rate UGen. So you can do weird computations in your ugen?  It does a programming step everytime it gets triggered.

The programs are stored in buffers. You can do random ones.

There is also a visual thingee.

BBlockerBuf exposes the stack and the program counter.

BBlockerProgram holds a beta blocker program for the assembler. 

You can create a program with the assembler code.  you can play the program.

BetaBlockerProgram([NOP, POP, ADD]) etc

Tom Hall – 

John Cage would be 100 this year.

A metaphorically digital, constrained, sonic system. An invitation to listen

Questions

• Is the heap a wave table? No, the output of the program is the sound.
• Is it a coincidence that it sounds like putting a induction coil on a laptop?  Um, maybe. He says it sounds very 8-bit-y. Maybe because it’s 8bit.
• Is it easy to write logical seeming programs, or are they mostly random? It is possible to write things that make sense. The fun of it is the weirdness and things getting trashed by accident.  Dave is going genetic programing with a system like this.
• The output is one byte at a time? No, each step does something and the output is something I didn’t understand.
• Graphics question? Not Till’s field.

I think this could be really useful for student or teenagers who are sort of intereted in programming.

Using SC since 2000.

Main project is Craftwife. (All members are housewives, she says).  Going since 2008.  There are 5 members now. They are between pop and art culture.

She started initially doing demos of Remkon, an iOS OSC app.  How to make this popular? 

• Borrow the image of something already famous – Karftwerk.
• What is Originality? – SC patterns
• Crash of music industry – live to record, record to live. Craftwife should be live only

Influenced by “the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”

She makes extensive use of PatternProxies

She also works with Craftwife + Kaeso+.  Kaseo+ is a circuit bender.  she controls strobe lights, analogue synthesier, etc.

SuperCollider.jp

SC in Japan. They have a meetup in Tokyo. She posts on twitter. She does workshops.

During her show in the Hague in 2007, she got frustrated and smashed her computer. And then quit making computer music for a year and grew vegetables.

She held a workshop at a place called the WombLounge.  Not everyone was a musician. She covered interaction between many environments.

SuperColliderSpeedCodingShow

She will give people a theme and five minutes and they have to make a sound.

4 people are quickly coding something on the theme of spring.

SuperCollider.future

She wants the book in an eBook in Japanese.

SuperCollider.cycling

She has attached a sensor to her exercise bike and uses this during her workout routine.

She’s tired of loud sounds. And sound systems are annoying.

She played a video of JMC saying what he wants for sc4. It’s not client server and it’s a lot smaller.

by Jan Trüzschler and Zlatko Brackski

This is the SuperCollider Audio Unit User Interface Library, which enables the creation of custom user interfaces for Audio Units built in SC.

You can use AU stuff in live or Logic and having a nice GUI can enhance the user experience.  Mapping controls can increase the complexity possible with the AU library.

This is MAC-only, as it uses Objective C.

The interface has some grey boxes and is editable. 

This is not yet added to the main SCAU library yet, as it needs to be merged with the SCAU lib.  The UI library needs some work. There needs to be some documentation.

Examples

This would be cool, but the GUI is really obtuse. 

You can download this stuff from BCU via TEE DMT. Or this will be released in a more normal way.

Questions

• Where is the lovely GUI coming from? Objective C, so you can’t do your own version in SuperCollider
• Why is this a one-time library install rather than packaged in the component? Jan thought it would be easier to do an installer.  They’re not difficult to distribute.
• Can the AUUI controller thing use sidechains? Not yet.