Hello, Yann. On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 10:51, Yann Orlarey <orla...@grame.fr> wrote:
> We plan to organize new Faust online workshops in the coming weeks. Among > the themes we have thought of, two of them involve contributions from the > community. And we'd love to hear what you think about them. > > 1/ Workshop Q&A > The idea would be to collect in advance questions and problems that you > may have about Faust and for which we will try to find answers. Then we > will organize a workshop where the most representative questions will be > presented as well as the answers we can give them. > This perhaps depends on the direction that Faust is taking for its future developments. Personally, I've found that Faust is an environment where aspects of algorithmic composition and audio engineering can coexist beautifully. I can also see that the interest of electronic musicians for Faust is growing a lot recently: I've already asked on the list and other musicians use Faust extensively; three (the most recent ones) of the seven performance projects in my music PhD portfolio are entirely developed in Faust. And many colleagues are asking about Faust lately. Yet, I see that they're often concerned about Faust being more for engineers rather than musicians, and that it may only be good for sound synthesis rather than composition. While this is partially true, I also think that Faust can be an environment where both sound and music can be developed. If the idea of Faust as an environment for both sound and music synthesis is part of its development, then one question that a new audience might want to hear is: Can Faust be used as an environment for algorithmic composition? This answer would then be followed by one or more examples of simple compositions entirely developed in Faust that demonstrate how algorithmic techniques can be implemented for formal developments besides sound synthesis. If this direction seems to be important for the future developments of Faust, I think that we could also think of a new Faust library, perhaps "composition.lib", where some algorithmic composition techniques such as chaos theory, L-systems, Markov chains, self-similarity, or adaptation, are implemented including some basic music examples. > > 2/ Workshop Faust based projects > There are now many projects that use Faust to varying degrees. The idea > would be to have the developers of these projects do a 10mn informal > presentation/demo of their project. We could imagine having a dozen or so > projects present > I really don't mean to do self-promotion and I'm only interested in making Faust better or more appreciated, so I will mention my library in case you find it appropriate for that purpose: https://github.com/dariosanfilippo/edgeofchaos. The library is the developing environment for my music projects, which investigate adaptive audio feedback networks for live performance. The library includes information processing, audio processing, and mapping processing functions, among others, to implement the recursive chain of cognition-adaptation-transformation to model complex autonomous behaviours. The future development is to turn the library into an audio complex adaptive systems generator following the paradigm of Kauffman's random Boolean networks. Ideally, it should be as easy as having something like process = CAS(N, seed); where N is the number of nodes/agents, and "seed" is a float that feeds a number of uncorrelated pseudo-random generators to determine, among other things, the type of audio processing functions in an agent (transformation), its information processing infrastructure (cognition), and the positive or negative feedback relationships between information signals and audio processing variables (adaptation). Hence, process(4, .743); and process(4, .744); would result in two different systems, although the systems themselves are always deterministic. But this is just an idea that I haven't started developing yet. Best, Dario > > The two other workshops we have thought of are: > > 3/ a workshop dedicated to architecture files and how to design them. > > 4/ a workshop for the general public on writing VST plugins with Faust. > > Tell us what you think. If the first two seem interesting to you, we'll > start collecting questions and projects very quickly. > > Thanks > > Yann > > > *Yann Orlarey* > Directeur scientifique/Scientific director > > > orla...@grame.fr <x...@grame.fr> T : +33 (0) 4 72 07 37 00 > GRAME - Centre national de création musicale > 11 cours de Verdun Gensoul | 69002 Lyon > www.grame.fr | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Gramelyon/> | instagram > <https://www.instagram.com/grame_cncm/> | twitter > <https://twitter.com/GRAME_LYON> > _______________________________________________ > Faudiostream-users mailing list > Faudiostream-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/faudiostream-users >
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