count me in. i've participated in a few before, but i'm looking forward to seeing what people do with this whole interactive element added in:
http://xiphoidprocess.com/ec2/ http://xiphoidprocess.com/ec4/ http://corpse.electricbrainreserve.com/ http://www.fountain-city.com/ec6/ -josh Chris McCormick wrote: > Hi List, > > I realised I will not be able to sleep until I send this idea to the > list, so here goes: > > Let's play a composition game. The game is based upon the Surrealist > "exquisite corpse" method > <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse> and it works like this: > > 1. Everyone who wants to play will reply to this message off-list. You > will be required to make a Puredata composition around 30 seconds long, > and you will have to do so within 3 days at some point in the next few > weeks. If you can commit to this then go ahead and reply to me. > > 2. When it is your turn, you will receive a patch with two subpatches in > it, and the name and email address of the person following you. The left > hand subpatch will contain the person before you's work. The right hand > subpatch will be empty. Each work/subpatch is triggered with a bang, > and outputs a bang when it is finished. The composition must work > in pure-puredata (Miller's) to ensure that it will work the same for > everyone involved on all OSes etc. Your mission is to create a work in > the right hand subpatch that goes together with the person preceding > you (e.g. both will have their trigger bang hit at the same time so > they should work together in some way). Whatever style of music and > Pd mechanisms you choose are up to you, as long as your work does not > depend upon any variables from the preceding patch (counters, etc) since > the person after you won't have access to that patch. Once you're done, > you mail it to the next person in the list with your own subpatch moved > from the right hand side to the left hand side, and the next person does > the same thing. > > 3. At the end everyone will mail me their subpatch and we will string all > of the pieces together, overlapping so that each piece is played twice - > once together with the piece before, and once with the piece after, and > we'll post it back to the pd-list for everyone to hear. Should be fun > and hopefully sound interesting! > > Ok, now I can go to sleep. :) > > Best, > > Chris. > > ------------------- > http://mccormick.cx > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- ________________________________________________________________ tasty electronic music vittles -- bluevitriol.com the only music blog you need -- playtherecords.com you are the dj. interactive music -- improbableorchestra.com random observations of the bizarre -- vitriolix.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
