<br>Sure thing. I'm a composer who has been working on computer music since 1983. I started writing MaxMSP externals around 1999 and around 2003 started building externals in hybrid MaxMSP/Pd code. My interest in Pd is as much sociological as musical. The fact that MaxMSP is commercial and closed source and Pd is free and open source makes it very interesting to observe how the two communities evolve. For that reason among others, I like the idea of having my externals available on both platforms. Most of my recent use of Pd and MaxMSP features interaction between computer and acoustic instrumentalists, where the forms of interaction are mostly predetermined, applied to specific pieces of composed instrumental materials as they are performed live. Which is to say, this work is closer to performance from a score (with interpretive possibilities as in traditional instrumental music) than to more open forms of improvisation. I also use the programs for generation of materials for fixed media compositions, and there my approach tends to be much more improvisational.
<br><br>Best,<br>Eric<br><br> Sounds good. The standard procedure is to send an email to this list<br> introducing yourself and the work you do with Pd, and in the CVS.<br> Then after the "lazy consensus" waiting period passes with no
<br> objections, we'll add you. Normally its a few days.<br><br> .hc<br><br>