Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Kay
Ian, as an excellent musician, is making the big important point here ... that musical time is not about integer ratios. It is often wrongly taught that way, but it is actually about meaning, pulse, emphasis, and phrasing. Musical notation is not a program to be followed literally, but hints

Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-17 Thread BGB
On 5/16/2011 9:22 PM, Ian Piumarta wrote: Dear Josh, Thanks for posting this! Thought you guys would get a kick out of this YAML-WAV sequencer written in Ruby: https://github.com/jstrait/beats I think this is pretty cool. (It puts us well on the way to archiving the entire output of

Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-17 Thread Casey Ransberger
Cool! I've been hoping to see some more multimedia stuff happen for Ruby, and I actually like the little DSL they've got going there: it's very visual, and a grid is perfect when what you're emulating is a drum machine which usually has a grid interface or some such, and doesn't know about inexact

Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-17 Thread shaun gilchrist
I really liked the idea mentioned on hacker news of using a numeric value in place of the x to indicate velocity. I am going to mess around with a really simple web interface for this over the weekend. On 5/17/11, Casey Ransberger casey.obrie...@gmail.com wrote: Cool! I've been hoping to see

Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-17 Thread Julian Leviston
On 18/05/2011, at 8:06 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote: Here's something ironic: we've instead focused on ways to *correct* human error in music. Pitch correction for your vocals, but don't use too much, or you'll sound like a fax machine (unless that's what you're going for, in which case you

[fonc] C5 2012 Call for Papers

2011-05-17 Thread Ian Piumarta
The 10th International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2012) 18-20 January 2012 Playa Vista, CA USA http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-12/ Hosted by the USC