[PD] "computer music" WAS: Re: Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 5, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:44 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:09 PM, glerm soares wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/9/4 glerm soares <organismo at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>                I have yet to see any computer or electronic music
>>>                show that can hold a candle to the feeling of being
>>>                packed into a room of people dancing face-to-face
>>>                with 9 musicians pouring their guts into completely
>>>                physical instruments.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> we don't even need sound to prove it:
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/purecanesugar/3824634806/sizes/l/
>>>
>>> cheers ;)
>>> glerm
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> That
>> was fun, that was the samba night in the Pelorinho in Salvador  
>> after the ISCL event.   So for me the question is, how do we get  
>> music using computers to be more like that?
>>
> use netpd
>
> (what seems like a cheap ad is rather a prompt to myself to dive  
> into it
> again. without saying something about the quality of the resulting
> music, it at least enabled some people quite some times to have the
> feeling of being part of an expressive exchange with eachother by  
> using
> music creating tools. i find your question quite intriguing and i  
> think,
> it's definitely worth trying to 'get music using computers to be more
> like that'.)
>
> roman

Yeah, netpd is definitely a good step in that direction.  Any luck  
with the crashing?  I'd love to do more 20 person jams!

.hc


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