Hi Michael, Thanks for catching this. I've updated the SVN repository to include the "helpful code" folder/files from now on (and they are there now)!
Yours truly, David On 2013-06-07, at 11:56 AM, Michael Heuer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello David, > > This looks very cool. > > The docs mention an esp.ck ChucK file and I see it in the 0.42 .zip > file but it is not in the source tree on Google Code. > > michael > > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:00 PM, David Ogborn <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear friends, >> >> I am pleased to announce the official release of version 0.42 of the EspGrid >> software - the synchronization and sharing software for laptop ensembles I >> have developed around the Cybernetic Orchestra at McMaster, during the >> project "Scalable, Collective Traditions of Electronic Sound Performance" >> (supported by Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, >> SSHRC). The software and some additional helpful files (code/patches) can >> be downloaded here: http://esp.mcmaster.ca/EspGrid-0.42-OSX-10.7.zip >> >> Over the course of the past year, earlier versions of the software have been >> presented at the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, the Audio Engineering >> Society Convention in San Francisco, and most recently, the >> live.code.festival in Karlsruhe, Germany. This 0.42 release is a "clean-up >> release" - with better stability and synchronization. EspGrid has been >> developed around the ideas of neutrality and hybridity with respect to the >> languages and environments employed by laptop and live coding performers. >> The EspGrid application "sits in the background" and takes care of clock >> synchronization, to a large degree independent of the diverse and multiple >> "foreground" environments in which performers/creators work. Another >> participant in the live.code.festival session (chair Alex McLean, if I >> recall correctly) provided a perfect example of the intent of the EspGrid >> software: three electronic musicians find themselves on a train together; >> despite all using different languages/tools to make their music, they each >> fire up EspGrid and instantly share a tight common clock and a metronome >> that anyone can control. Jamming ensues... >> >> The EspGrid software is being made available to community as free and open >> source software (GNU public license version 3). The code base of the >> software includes a large and growing number of unit tests, and development >> should proceed according to the principles of test-driven development. The >> rudiments of a help/documentation system are in place. Binary executables >> exist only for Mac OS X at the present moment but the Windows and Linux >> ports of the software are the highest, immediate priority following this >> release. Windows and Linux users in mixed laptop ensembles don't need to >> wait for these ports however: there is a "side chain" mechanism that allows >> users/machines without a running grid to piggyback on a user/machine that is >> running the grid. >> >> To get/browse the source code, visit the software's Google code site at: >> http://code.google.com/p/espgrid >> >> Enjoy - and feel free to get in touch for help/issues with the software. I >> hope that some of you will find this useful, and look forward to working >> with you on the (gradual) evolution of this tool! >> >> Yours truly, >> David >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Dr. David Ogborn, Assistant Professor >> Communication Studies & Multimedia >> Director, Cybernetic Orchestra >> McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada >> >> http://esp.mcmaster.ca >> http://davidogborn.net >> http://twitter.com/d0kt0r0 >> 1-905-525-9140 ext 27603 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> chuck-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users >> > _______________________________________________ > chuck-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. David Ogborn, Assistant Professor Communication Studies & Multimedia Director, Cybernetic Orchestra McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada http://esp.mcmaster.ca http://davidogborn.net http://twitter.com/d0kt0r0 1-905-525-9140 ext 27603
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