> > > A seething vi/emacs like religious war - no, nothing that exciting > really - I had a beer with Andrew Sorenson once... > > Yeah, isn't it almost strange? I recommended Andrew once to a Australian place that considered booking some livecoding. I doubt anything came of that... but we're so similar to Impromptu you could expect a war or even a some sort of fusion, instead there are nearly no links.
> I've seen performances with it by both of the Andrews and Michele Pasin, > it's facinating to watch as a schemer - as obviously it's much more > understandable (for me, anyway) than SC or chuck, so it's a different > experience as a member of the audience. > > I read ChucK fluently, way faster than I can (currently...) read Scheme and I don't get all of it but *still* I find Sorenson's performance videos some of the most compelling viewing in all of the scene. In particular he is able to create longer performances that stay coherent and engaging; I have a huge admiration for his work. What appeals less to me is that it looks like Impromptu is most concerned -on the audio side- with controlling external synths over MIDI or some plugin interface. This may have changed; I think I heard about them including a synthesis engine? We could probably do more in sharing approaches/ideas, but that's > probably a bit too practical for the livecoding scene :) > > No, it sounds like a great idea! Especially with the plans now to move the C editor into Fluxus itself we're at a good point to borrow ideas. Right now SC and CK -which are far less similar- borrow more from each other (SC UGens in ChucK, ChucK-lib for SC, there might be more) than we do with Impromptu. On the down-side; it does look like Impromptu is only free as in beer and form and not in speech. That shouldn't be a limitation to borrowing ideas but it could complicate things a bit. I just looked and the documentation, even of the design-choices themselves is quite good. If that fails we could always declare war, that's always fun too. Maybe we could send a ambassador? Or put a giant wooden penguin at their gates? Yours, Kas.
