…a forty minute acci-chill jam from myself, recorded on the 90 year old piano in the 115 year old house in the 380 year old city that I live in. Available soon.
max is dead: long live max
“Many exciting pieces are now performed digitally.” – Max Mathews, 1997.
Max, I suspect you never knew that half of it. Max Mathews literally invented computer music: He wrote a program called Music I which played 17 seconds of a composition of his own devising, in 1957. Where were you in 1957? Probably not changing the world, I bet. (He also made the rightful iconic verison of “Daisy Bell” that HAL sings in 2001. Legend. )
More importantly, he created a world in which the idea of making music with digital devices was possible. Think about the scope of that statement: everything from the CD to Ableton Live owes its creation to him. Every adult job I have had, bar one, has depended on his work, to say nothing of how I spend my leisure time. We’ll miss you, Max.
counting to 33.3
I am finished version 0.2 of SeratoStats! It gives data on BPM, play time, mix time, key, artist, and folder structure, from a nice, shiny command line interface. I think I’m going to leave it here for the summer, and build a web version at the tentative UVic Music Hackday in the fall.
half simpleton, half god
^^ Mahler on Bruncker. Dude didn’t mess around.
required listening
How good is that Africa Hitech stuff? SO GOOD.
the hotttness
I can’t say enough about these cats.
where we at
Projects, at the 1/4 way of the summer:
– RINGETTE, for sax & electronics, is done. Sounds like Berio.
– ABJURATION, for flute & marimba, is totally drafted, pending player approval in the fall. Think lite Ferneyhough.
– BABA YAHA, for bassoon and piano and loops, has a first section and form. Writing like Tchaikovsky is hard.
– ELEVEN, a small chiptune suite, is 1/3 of the way done, for the year,
– TH TMPST is well concepted, some analysis has been done. Needs lots of work.
– Considering a project called GIRLS DANCE TO THIS MUSIC, will probably hold off on that for a bit.
– ALL MY FRIENDS MISS ME has been started. It’s a pretty self-explanatory mix tape.
– Serato statistics tracking is at 0.1 or so: some things work, more can be done, and then
– LYRETTE, a chord progression improv tool, built in Max, is at 0.001.
– Figuring out what I want to do with my life: 15%.
Lots to do!
trying to hit this page more
…by leaving the login open in Chrome at all times:
Sunset Labs, the DJ collective that I’m part of, is live.
Great interview with Chris Longshanks, and an even better mix from him, over at Subdiv.
This is beautiful: papercraft meets projectors meets shadow puppets meets Russian fairy-tales.
The MIT bookstore is amazing. And the piano in my house is between 95 and 81 years old.