I think open source people are more hacky and DIY and are less tied up, which has an impact on the result...
2017-02-24 23:25 GMT-03:00 Derek Kwan <[email protected]>: > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I would love to know if anyone feels like there is a direct > > relationship between the music they make with Pd and the fact that > > Pd is open source. Do you compose music differently than you would > > with a purchased software package? Are your sonic standards higher / > > lower / unchanged? Are you more / less musically adventurous (what > > ever that might mean to you)? Are you more / less likely to use sounds > > from other users? > > I suppose I pretty much exclusively work with open source tools so my > perspective is a bit skewed (I also went through school studying music so > this adds an additional bias), but I think paradigm and interface has much > much more to do with compositional style than software being open source > or not: DAWs and trackers emphasizing the metrical grid, while Pd and SC > being more freeform and sandboxy, SC having its extensive list of patterns > and tempo clocks (although I've been lately kinda doing this sort of thing > with in Pd with sequenced lists), Pd with its graphical dataflow interface, > perhaps emphasizing musical experiences that involve more pre-coded > modules hooked together and tweaked live via sliders and buttons (I > actually haven't thought about this much, forgive me, lol). > > I suppose that perhaps there are folks who are comfortable with solely > using commercial products and folks who want to use open-source as much > as possible (and people in the middle) and definitely in the popular > music fields commercial products dominate. I'd say that open-source > programming-oriented music environments have been more historically > associated with academic institutions and thus "western art music" for > lack of better terms (although I'm not really fond of that term), but > there are folks leaning more on the "popular" side of things (not fond > of that term either...) that do use Pd. However, I'd also say Pd's > closest cousin Max/MSP has also been pretty historically tied to academic > institions and the genres associated with such as well, although there are > again folks who use Max/MSP for more "popular"-influenced music such as > Autechre. Also, I suspect that these conceptions are changing, > especially as the emergence of "creative coding" brings the expressivity > of computer-technology-powered art to more and more people. > > I suppose since open-source software tends to be more community-driven > than there could be more of a proclivity to share code and sounds and so > forth, but Max/MSP code also gets shared a lot and in terms of sampled > sounds, well, sampling has been a thing for a long time... In my own > experience, study of Pd's source has allowed me to learn and develop my > own tools, but I wouldn't say that this necessarily leads to any sort of > style of music. I'd say that perhaps with commercial products, you would > expect more-polished and thorough documentation, but this isn't always > the case. I'm not sure if I answered your questions at all... > > Derek > > -- > Derek Kwan > www.derekxkwan.com > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list >
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