[PD] Open source + musical composition?

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

I think open source people are more hacky and DIY and are less tied up,
which has an impact on the result...

2017-02-24 23:25 GMT-03:00 Derek Kwan <derek.x.kwan at gmail.com>:

> > Hi everyone,
> >
> >
> > I would love to know if anyone feels like there is a direct
> > relationship between the music they make with Pd and the fact that
> > Pd is open source. Do you compose music differently than you would
> > with a purchased software package? Are your sonic standards higher /
> > lower / unchanged? Are you more / less musically adventurous (what
> > ever that might mean to you)? Are you more / less likely to use sounds
> > from other users?
>
> I suppose I pretty much exclusively work with open source tools so my
> perspective is a bit skewed (I also went through school studying music so
> this adds an additional bias), but I think paradigm and interface has much
> much more to do with compositional style than software being open source
> or not: DAWs and trackers emphasizing the metrical grid, while Pd and SC
> being more freeform and sandboxy, SC having its extensive list of patterns
> and tempo clocks (although I've been lately kinda doing this sort of thing
> with in Pd with sequenced lists), Pd with its graphical dataflow interface,
> perhaps emphasizing musical experiences that involve more pre-coded
> modules hooked together and tweaked live via sliders and buttons (I
> actually haven't thought about this much, forgive me, lol).
>
> I suppose that perhaps there are folks who are comfortable with solely
> using commercial products and folks who want to use open-source as much
> as possible (and people in the middle) and definitely in the popular
> music fields commercial products dominate. I'd say that open-source
> programming-oriented music environments have been more historically
> associated with academic institutions and thus "western art music" for
> lack of better terms (although I'm not really fond of that term), but
> there are folks leaning more on the "popular" side of things (not fond
> of that term either...) that do use Pd. However, I'd also say Pd's
> closest cousin Max/MSP has also been pretty historically tied to academic
> institions and the genres associated with such as well, although there are
> again folks who use Max/MSP for more "popular"-influenced music such as
> Autechre. Also, I suspect that these conceptions are changing,
> especially as the emergence of "creative coding" brings the expressivity
> of computer-technology-powered art to more and more people.
>
> I suppose since open-source software tends to be more community-driven
> than there could be  more of a proclivity to share code and sounds and so
> forth, but Max/MSP code also gets shared a lot and in terms of sampled
> sounds, well,  sampling has been a thing for a long time... In my own
> experience, study of Pd's source has allowed me to learn and develop my
> own tools, but I wouldn't say that this necessarily leads to any sort of
> style of music. I'd say that perhaps with commercial products, you would
> expect more-polished and thorough documentation, but this isn't always
> the case. I'm not sure if I answered your questions at all...
>
> Derek
>
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