[PD] pd 'instrument' ?

2007-03-21 Thread john saylor
hi i came across this video on a theremin list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_hiz-Kx0kM can anyone tell me if this is pd running the show? looks like linux too. if not, then what? and too bad that there couldn't have been any fluctuation in the dynamics ... -- \js [ http://or8.net/~johns/

Re: [PD] Vote your font! [was: fonts on GNU/Linux]

2007-05-18 Thread john saylor
hi On 5/18/07, Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which do you prefer? [ x ] normal.png [ ] bold.png bold is too demanding for documentation. -- \js [ http://or8.net/~johns/ ] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] elitism, software and academia (was GEM FTGL Sadness)

2007-06-07 Thread john saylor
hi On 6/7/07, jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of the work done (out of love, not money) by the pd community should be applauded. With that said, there is a sense of elitism. how does this perceived elitism affect your ability to make music? to learn about digitial synthesis? is it an

Re: [PD] elitism, software and academia (was GEM FTGL Sadness)

2007-06-07 Thread john saylor
hi On 6/7/07, David Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really think it's just absurd to force all musicians into a model that may only make sense from the software engineering / DSP side of things. I usually am arguing more on the pro-technology side of things, but in this case I think I must

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism

2007-10-10 Thread john saylor
hey On 10/10/07, Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah but why do they still vote for one of the two big parties? not all of us do! there are still some of us on the lunatic fringe although you won't hear about any of it in the corporate media. and although the anti-war movement keeps

Re: [PD] I just made a beginner's PD tutorial and posted it...

2008-01-16 Thread john saylor
hola On 12/3/07, vade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My only thought was a bit more of an explanation as to what PD is, what it can do, where to get it, and how to install it. http://puredata.info/ :-P -- \js [ http://or8.net/~johns/ ] ___

Re: [PD] Pd, Max/Msp, Reaktor, Plogue Bidule... How do these compare?

2010-03-17 Thread john saylor
ciao Gareth Loy with the title 'The Composer Seduced into Programming' It is important to note just what the seducing agent in these cases really is. It is certainly not carpentry or programming, or we would have ceased as artists and become tradesmen. It is really the will of the composer,

Re: [PD] ChucK vs. Pd

2010-06-01 Thread john saylor
yo On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Pierre Massat pimas...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone ever used ChucK? guilty. How does it compare with Pd? well, it doesn't have pd's patching visual interface. it doesn't have the endless extentions [existing and extinct] that pd does. and it doesn't have a

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Piksel video report: Sonification of IT censorship technologies

2010-12-22 Thread john saylor
greetings if i understand you, one of your indirect points is that artists need to get more scientific. this seems correct to me [art has always been practiced by leading scientists, think of einstein and his violin]. and at the same time, this does not mean to ignore imagination- it means you

Re: [PD] ⌘+⇧+L

2011-03-25 Thread john saylor
sound of distant bell On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:09 AM, cyrille henry c...@chnry.net wrote: well, look like someone god is someone else nightmare. you have become enlightened. -- \js : verbing weirds language. -calvin  [http://or8.net/~johns/] ___

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread john saylor
greeting am i the only one who thinks it's odd to promote an anti-pd workshop on a pd list? i'm not saying the idea is wrong or bad [or good], just that it strikes me as not very well thought through to promote it here. like trying to drum up attendance at a easter service by posting to pagan

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread john saylor
hi On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:27 AM, l'ull cec i...@lullcec.org wrote: Framing the workshop as an anti-pd activity seems a tad on the extremist side from here. ok, but that's how it reads: switch from pd [instead of supercollider is cool] i certainly am not interested in making us all use one