[ale] OT: Music Composition == Information Architecture Design

[Jeff Hubbs]

Fripp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSStufx6jYU

arxion wrote:
> This Cellist, Zoe Keating, performed at Atlanta's EyeDrum Gallery
> recently. Since then she seems to have become a bit of a nerd star.
>
> She uses a Mac laptop and some fairly state of the art commercial
> music software to do live performance "layered looping".  Taking
> the basics of multi-track recording further into the digital realm,
> the technology allows her build complex pieces performed in real time,
> in effect becoming a one person Cello orchestra one measure at a time.
>
> Wired just posted a some pixeo interview pieces with her where she
> compares the music composing process to her day job of working with
> information architecture design and web programming**:
>
> Abridged Interview:
> < http://tinyurl.com/keatingintrvw3m >
>
> Full Interview:
> < http://tinyurl.com/keating10m >
>
> Performance Piece:
> < http://tinyurl.com/zkeatingplays6m >
>
> Article Reference:
> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/keating/
>
>
> This all caught my eye because I'm a volunteer with Eydrum AND
> I've recently taken to doing a little music composition in a similar
> process.  I got a couple of cheap (~$50) Nano-Korg midi controller
> devices as holiday gifts and have finally found some time to play
> with them using Garage Band and it's nice library of instrument sounds.
> Performing live with the velocity sensitive drum pads and micro keyboard
> I've managed to quickly get up to speed and layer together a few
> interesting little sketches that are evolving into actual songs.
>
> It's a lot of fun, so I'm looking to expand the tools and move this into
> live performance. However, to keep things affordable I'll be doing more
> with Open Source and GNU Linux solutions.  I'm happily finding there are
> a plethora of OSS music & midi composition tools that would seem to  
> compare
> pretty favorably to the commercial offerings. The one that seems most
> interesting, though, is a a modular programable processing environment
> called Pure Data.  The package is GPL, (fully) cross platform and very
> mature, having also been forked into a psuedo-compatible (and expensive)
> commercial product called Max/MSP.  Anyway, if a real-time graphical
> programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing
> that runs well on GNU Linux sounds interesting to you, check it out  
> here:
>
> < http://puredata.info/ >
> (also --
> < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data >
>
>
> peace
> aaron
>
>
> ** (sorry if the pixeo streaming is weak, but it looks like they're
> using some M$ based crap service for distribution and its been sucking
> out loud on my system; really bad audio sync, stutters and hangs and
> frozen video all over the place. I had better luck with the direct
> urls, but still...)
>
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