Hi all, At this month's Lambda Lounge we have a talk by Alex McLean on using Haskell to make musical instruments for live coding performances.
We'll be meeting at Madlab on the 18th November at 7pm. http://www.lambdalounge.org.uk/ Alex McLean (http://yaxu.org/) is a laptop musician and researcher based in Sheffield, performing as part of Slub (http://slub.org) and working at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music, University of Leeds (http://icsrim.org.uk/). Alex is going to talk about his long term project of getting people to dance to code. Live coders (http://toplap.org/) take advantage of dynamic interpreters to improvise live music (and/or video) with sourcecode, using a computer language as a musical environment. A live code edit is something like changing the design of a machine while it runs, moving cogs and pistons around and adding new ones. Here though the machine is composed of text, describing the functions which the music flows out of. Music is not made by the machine, but by changes to the machine. The musicians editor is projected for the audience so that they see the live coders gestures within their text editor, and if they like, read the code as it is written. In this talk Alex will show how he live codes in haskell to make music, including how he represents musical patterns as functions of time, interfaces with synthesis software over the OSC protocol, and uses emacs as an interface in musical improvisation. He'll also introduce his new visual editor for Tidal, called Texture. Rick -- http://twitter.com/RickMoynihan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
