hey everyone-- i posted this to the technoprimitives group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/technoprimitive
here's a brief: announcing a linux-jack based open-source object-oriented audio looper \ musical instrument, dogon listening device: AKA .. ms rosie ring a round NEWS: me and eddie have been working on the listening device, using our voices (whistles, beatboxes, gurgles, etc) to improvise and loop time. there are now audio streams up on our website detailing our sexperiments: http://www.cloud9.net/~jpekau/tp the listening device allows us to freeze phrases of improvised material and retrigger them using the keyboard. different phrases can be locked together through time axes, which provide a basic quantized meter for the piece. the goal is to blur and dissolve the lines between improvisation and structure, where the structure rises spontaneously and fluidly out of the channel. we simultaneously direct the flow of the groove and improvise new grooves. thus, we redesign time as art. if you would like to play with the listening device, source code is available on our website.. once we secure more funding, we will be improving the user interface to allow multiple shamans to jam together, triggering each other's vocalizations. we would like to create playable playground structures for kids of all ages. since previous notice, we can now: - erase previous loops - volume adjust running loops - volume adjust globally - quantize to multiple time axes next in linear time leading to progress, wealth, and generally total world domination: - saving sets of phrases to disk - sync to external time axes - independent pitch and tempo shifting - building larger phrases using triggered improvisations of smaller phrases (codename: fractal hierarchy doohicky) now, the focus is back to singing and dancing. we hope to experiment in collaboration with steve sandberg, ragapop shaman, and with ritual intention, group chanting, touch, at times using the listening device and other loopy tools to carve little tunnels to worlds calling out to human heart. see you in the dreamtime, gnawa-ii. xoxox -yon p mercury __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
