Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-09-03 Thread ydego...@gmail.com

in the style of a song from  'abogado babies' :

computers? i like to crash them, yeh yeh...

just realize i care more about lyrics than music now,
after 10 years of Mego-like stuff...
i still have my Crass original prints.

ydego...@gmail.com wrote:

b.o. knows about it,
at least about sampling

to me, a type of music dies
when it's getting an endless
self.referencing repetition of itself
sounding like a caricature..

and computer music came to that point.

Greg Pond wrote:

don't know if any of you have read Ostertag's  Why Computer Music
Sucks but here is the link

http://bobostertag.com/writings-articles-computer-music-sucks.htm

(this link does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of 
the sender)


best,

Greg


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wrote:
 

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Derek Holzer wrote:

   
It's been clear for quite some time that we need more natural 
predators in

the boring techno ecosystem.
  
Maybe, but last time it happened, it only resulted in the 
proliferation of a

more resistant strain of boring techno, so, watch out!

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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-09-02 Thread Greg Pond
don't know if any of you have read Ostertag's  Why Computer Music
Sucks but here is the link

http://bobostertag.com/writings-articles-computer-music-sucks.htm

(this link does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the sender)

best,

Greg


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 On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Derek Holzer wrote:

 It's been clear for quite some time that we need more natural predators in
 the boring techno ecosystem.

 Maybe, but last time it happened, it only resulted in the proliferation of a
 more resistant strain of boring techno, so, watch out!

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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-09-02 Thread ydego...@gmail.com

b.o. knows about it,
at least about sampling

to me, a type of music dies
when it's getting an endless
self.referencing repetition of itself
sounding like a caricature..

and computer music came to that point.

Greg Pond wrote:

don't know if any of you have read Ostertag's  Why Computer Music
Sucks but here is the link

http://bobostertag.com/writings-articles-computer-music-sucks.htm

(this link does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the sender)

best,

Greg


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Mathieu Bouchardma...@artengine.ca wrote:
  

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Derek Holzer wrote:



It's been clear for quite some time that we need more natural predators in
the boring techno ecosystem.
  

Maybe, but last time it happened, it only resulted in the proliferation of a
more resistant strain of boring techno, so, watch out!

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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-09-02 Thread Jonathan Wilkes


--- On Thu, 9/3/09, Greg Pond gregp...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Greg Pond gregp...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC
 To: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca
 Cc: PD List pd-list@iem.at
 Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 5:59 AM
 don't know if any of you have read
 Ostertag's  Why Computer Music
 Sucks but here is the link
 
 http://bobostertag.com/writings-articles-computer-music-sucks.htm
 
 (this link does not necessarily represent the views or
 opinions of the sender)
 
 best,
 
 Greg

Thanks for the link.  I remember reading this a few years ago, being 
puzzled why Bob decided to take part as a judge and pick winners in a 
process that so clearly contributes to the boringness of computer 
music that he decries.

-Jonathan

 
 
 On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Mathieu Bouchardma...@artengine.ca
 wrote:
  On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Derek Holzer wrote:
 
  It's been clear for quite some time that we need
 more natural predators in
  the boring techno ecosystem.
 
  Maybe, but last time it happened, it only resulted in
 the proliferation of a
  more resistant strain of boring techno, so, watch
 out!
 
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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-09-01 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo,
Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:

 This is pretty funny. Some people from the BBC came along to a live-coding
 event in London:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
 I was using Pd, which you can see in some of the shots. It was my first time
 live-coding and it sounded awful like 8-bit alley cats on LSD singing Bob
 Dylan.

Does anyone know how to watch the video on Linux? I do have Flash 10, and I can
watch Youtube, Vimeo, etc. just fine. But this video when I click Play just 
endlessly
tries to load something and never shows any video ...

Ciao
-- 
Frank

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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-09-01 Thread Jack
Hmm, strange, all was ok yesterday on Ubuntu 9.04 and today, i have the
same problem, impossible to watch the video !
++

Jack


Le mardi 01 septembre 2009 à 10:24 +0200, Frank Barknecht a écrit :
 Hallo,
 Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:
 
  This is pretty funny. Some people from the BBC came along to a live-coding
  event in London:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
  I was using Pd, which you can see in some of the shots. It was my first time
  live-coding and it sounded awful like 8-bit alley cats on LSD singing Bob
  Dylan.
 
 Does anyone know how to watch the video on Linux? I do have Flash 10, and I 
 can
 watch Youtube, Vimeo, etc. just fine. But this video when I click Play just 
 endlessly
 tries to load something and never shows any video ...
 
 Ciao


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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-09-01 Thread Marco Donnarumma

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 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:24:46 +0200
 From: Frank Barknecht f...@footils.org
 Subject: Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC
 To: pd-list@iem.at
 Message-ID: 20090901082446.gc19...@footils.org
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

 Hallo,
 Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:

  This is pretty funny. Some people from the BBC came along to a
 live-coding
  event in London:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
  I was using Pd, which you can see in some of the shots. It was my first
 time
  live-coding and it sounded awful like 8-bit alley cats on LSD singing Bob
  Dylan.

 Does anyone know how to watch the video on Linux? I do have Flash 10, and I
 can
 watch Youtube, Vimeo, etc. just fine. But this video when I click Play
 just endlessly
 tries to load something and never shows any video ...

 Ciao
 --
 Frank




same here.
everything works except this video player.




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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-09-01 Thread dmotd
hmm.. i have no such problem here, but like many media 
providers i have noticed that sometimes bbc places
an ip filter to discriminate content (the national 
australian broadcaster - abc, does the same). these ip 
filters are never particularly reliable so it wouldn't 
surprise me if you go between being on block lists.

just a guess,

dmotd

Jack wrote:
 Hmm, strange, all was ok yesterday on Ubuntu 9.04 and today, i have the
 same problem, impossible to watch the video !
 ++
 
 Jack
 
 
 Le mardi 01 septembre 2009 à 10:24 +0200, Frank Barknecht a écrit :
  Hallo,
  Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:
  
   This is pretty funny. Some people from the BBC came along to a live-coding
   event in London:
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
   I was using Pd, which you can see in some of the shots. It was my first 
   time
   live-coding and it sounded awful like 8-bit alley cats on LSD singing Bob
   Dylan.
  
  Does anyone know how to watch the video on Linux? I do have Flash 10, and I 
  can
  watch Youtube, Vimeo, etc. just fine. But this video when I click Play 
  just endlessly
  tries to load something and never shows any video ...
  
  Ciao
 
 
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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-09-01 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner


On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:24 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:


Hallo,
Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:

This is pretty funny. Some people from the BBC came along to a live- 
coding

event in London:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
I was using Pd, which you can see in some of the shots. It was my  
first time
live-coding and it sounded awful like 8-bit alley cats on LSD  
singing Bob

Dylan.


Does anyone know how to watch the video on Linux? I do have Flash  
10, and I can
watch Youtube, Vimeo, etc. just fine. But this video when I click  
Play just endlessly

tries to load something and never shows any video ...




Script, flash, and ad blockers sometimes mess with poorly implemented  
embedded video players.  This seems like one of them.


.hc




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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-09-01 Thread Fredrik Olofsson
i had the same problem but could watch it after i turned off 'hardware  
acceleration' under display settings.  left/ctrl click to access these.

(player version 10, mac osx.5.8, intel, firefox 3)
_f

1 sep 2009 kl. 14.27 skrev dmotd:


hmm.. i have no such problem here, but like many media
providers i have noticed that sometimes bbc places
an ip filter to discriminate content (the national
australian broadcaster - abc, does the same). these ip
filters are never particularly reliable so it wouldn't
surprise me if you go between being on block lists.

just a guess,

dmotd

Jack wrote:
Hmm, strange, all was ok yesterday on Ubuntu 9.04 and today, i have  
the

same problem, impossible to watch the video !
++

Jack


Le mardi 01 septembre 2009 à 10:24 +0200, Frank Barknecht a écrit :

Hallo,
Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:

This is pretty funny. Some people from the BBC came along to a  
live-coding

event in London:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
I was using Pd, which you can see in some of the shots. It was my  
first time
live-coding and it sounded awful like 8-bit alley cats on LSD  
singing Bob

Dylan.


Does anyone know how to watch the video on Linux? I do have Flash  
10, and I can
watch Youtube, Vimeo, etc. just fine. But this video when I click  
Play just endlessly

tries to load something and never shows any video ...

Ciao



  #|
 fredrikolofsson.com klippav.org musicalfieldsforever.com
  |#

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[PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-08-31 Thread Chris McCormick
Hi *,

This is pretty funny. Some people from the BBC came along to a live-coding
event in London:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
I was using Pd, which you can see in some of the shots. It was my first time
live-coding and it sounded awful like 8-bit alley cats on LSD singing Bob
Dylan.

Enjoy!

Chris.

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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-08-31 Thread Daniel Wilcox


On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-requ...@iem.at wrote:


Hi *,

This is pretty funny. Some people from the BBC came along to a live- 
coding

event in London:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
I was using Pd, which you can see in some of the shots. It was my  
first time
live-coding and it sounded awful like 8-bit alley cats on LSD  
singing Bob

Dylan.


Oh man :

Making boring techno music is really easy with modern tools, he  
says, but with live coding, boring techno is much harder.


Nice.



Dan Wilcox
danomatika.com
robotcowboy.com



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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-08-31 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner


On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Daniel Wilcox wrote:



On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-requ...@iem.at wrote:


Hi *,

This is pretty funny. Some people from the BBC came along to a live- 
coding

event in London:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
I was using Pd, which you can see in some of the shots. It was my  
first time
live-coding and it sounded awful like 8-bit alley cats on LSD  
singing Bob

Dylan.


Oh man :

Making boring techno music is really easy with modern tools, he  
says, but with live coding, boring techno is much harder.


Nice.



Indeed.  I think I might have to add that to my sig quotes.  Chris,  
mind if I do?


.hc




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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-08-31 Thread dmotd
Daniel Wilcox wrote:

 On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-requ...@iem.at wrote:

 Hi *,

 This is pretty funny. Some people from the BBC came along to a live- 
 coding
 event in London:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
 I was using Pd, which you can see in some of the shots. It was my  
 first time
 live-coding and it sounded awful like 8-bit alley cats on LSD singing 
 Bob
 Dylan.

 Oh man :

 Making boring techno music is really easy with modern tools, he says, 
 but with live coding, boring techno is much harder.

 Nice.

that's superb, it could be the makings of a manifesto! obfuscated techno 
competition anyone?

cheers chris ;)

dmotd

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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-08-31 Thread Mathieu Bouchard

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Daniel Wilcox wrote:
Making boring techno music is really easy with modern tools, he says, but 
with live coding, boring techno is much harder.


Sounds like the bottom-up counterpart to some slogan I coined a long time 
ago:


Readymade Solutions Require Readymade Problems;
For Everything Else There Is PureData.

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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-08-31 Thread Chris McCormick
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:43:36AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

 On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Daniel Wilcox wrote:


 On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-requ...@iem.at wrote:

 Hi *,

 This is pretty funny. Some people from the BBC came along to a live- 
 coding
 event in London:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
 I was using Pd, which you can see in some of the shots. It was my  
 first time
 live-coding and it sounded awful like 8-bit alley cats on LSD  
 singing Bob
 Dylan.

 Oh man :

 Making boring techno music is really easy with modern tools, he  
 says, but with live coding, boring techno is much harder.

 Nice.


 Indeed.  I think I might have to add that to my sig quotes.  Chris, mind 
 if I do?

Of course not, I'm flattered!

Chris.

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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-08-31 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo,
Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

 On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Daniel Wilcox wrote:
 Making boring techno music is really easy with modern tools, he says, 
 but with live coding, boring techno is much harder.

 Sounds like the bottom-up counterpart to some slogan I coined a long time 
 ago:

 Readymade Solutions Require Readymade Problems;
 For Everything Else There Is PureData.

Max and Pd allow almost anyone to synthesize uninteresting timbres almost 
instantly.

 Max Mathews in http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/book-html/node5.html

Ciao
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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-08-31 Thread Mathieu Bouchard

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Derek Holzer wrote:

It's been clear for quite some time that we need more natural predators in 
the boring techno ecosystem.


Maybe, but last time it happened, it only resulted in the proliferation of 
a more resistant strain of boring techno, so, watch out!


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Re: [PD] Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

2009-08-31 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner


On Aug 31, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:


On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Derek Holzer wrote:

It's been clear for quite some time that we need more natural  
predators in the boring techno ecosystem.


Maybe, but last time it happened, it only resulted in the  
proliferation of a more resistant strain of boring techno, so, watch  
out!


Well, if its fun to watch, then it isn't boring, no?  :-D

.hc




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