On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Michael Stutz wrote: > I'm curious about what kind of work everyone's doing lately.
still writing code to make music. getting more into the relationships between notes, making each object a note and letting them interact (is this called agent based music?). > Also wondering if anyone's tried out any new tools, what software > you've been using. still my own perl code, faced with a bit of kylix. although i'd love to find the time and energy to play with the new software i hear about by lurking on the linux-audio-dev mailing list. i find it a big problem that i don't make tools that others could benefit from - to a large extent the code itself is the music. i interact with it in realtime but most of the composition is already done in the coding phase. i would love to share more; i give people a tarball of my music directory if they ask for it. but because of the way i work, it's just a mess and not too useful to others. > I'm finally committing to Ogg for audio, losing MP3. sounds like a good move - is the sound quality better now? > But that raises the question of what kind of free software extensions > are useful to artists. Anyone find these things useful? What sort of > things would you like to see? well i would suggest tools should not try to be creative (in terms of the output) themselves. they should be manipulable and transparent. so my point is that artist's tools needn't be different from any other computer users tools... a good tool doesn't dictate the intention, and if a software extension is useful to anyone, it's useful to an artist. i don't mean to sound negative - but it's very hard to suggest what kind of things should go in that section, when the scope is so huge. alex -- "the Internet is DEEP, WIDE and ANGULAR, you can't ask for much more."
