[PD] pd-based procedural chord progression database..

padawan12 padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk
Tue Aug 15 16:56:56 CEST 2006


On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:58:32 -0400
"Alexandre Quessy" <listes at sourcelibre.com> wrote:

> On 8/14/06, David Powers <cyborgk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This info would give pretty realistic modern voicings, when combined with
> > some idea of voicing - not voice leading per se, but avoiding big jumps
> > between chord voicings. Hope this info is helpful, I don't want to clog up
> > PD list with too much of this kind of thing...


> 
> I would be interested in using a pd-music mailing list. Would you guys
> appreciate that ?
> There, we could discuss anything we want on these topics.

No, I quite disagree, imho the recent topics here have been spot on
and in no way inappropriate. Keeping a good cross breeding of ideas
between software use, theory, maths and musical practice is great
and I'd hate to see that split up.
I can see the point of pd-dev, I'm lurking and listening all the time
to glean new knowlege about the development and internals. And pd-announce
seems to have value for general spamming and event discussion, but I'd
like to see the practitioners stay here. Imo, hold the pd-music idea back
until such time as the traffic ever gets too heavy or anybody expresses a
serious grumble with traffic they feel is OT.

> Also, some
> wiki pages in a (plone-ish) portal could be great. I also thought of a
> set of PD patches for interactive learning of the musical theory. Good
> idea, no ?!

Very good idea. I'd think Pd would an excellent vehicle to teach music
theory, count me as a first student/guinea pig.

> 
> Otherwise, we should write a page for places to look on the net for
> theoretical music and algorythms.

That too. I've been collecting links and documents
on composition lately, and mathematical stuff relating to
interesting sequences and geometry, generally more musical stuff than
my regular sound effects synthesis and I'd love to share and mix up with
more of that. As long as it crosses into Pd. And I'd like to see more good
tuts and discussion on integrating Pd into wider environments, explanations
by people using it with Csound, CLM, GeoMaestro, Ardour, or even,
heaven forbid, MIDI.
 
> By the way, maybe we should avoid putting a general interest wiki page
> under a user's namespace. And, while I am into it, it would be nice to
> use something else than Plone (faster ?) like MoinMoin or Drupal or
> such. Maybe a Drupal at http://patchr.puredata.info/ for patches and a
> MoinMoin at http://wiki.puredata.info/ as a powerful wiki. Also, a
> faster server would help... but maybe it is just Plone that is so
> slow.

I don't see any problem with the speed of the pureda.info server. But I
have spoken my mind to others that I think it's underused, poorly maintained
and a bit clinical and dull as a resource. I'd like to see it tarted up, a
bit more razz and pop! Patch of the week! Celebrity gossip! :)

Andy





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