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[giordano bruno <giordano-bruno@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>trying to watch his motions, thinking, 
>"is that him now?  is he doing that?
>or is that the program?"  

if he wrote the software, 
then regardless, 
it was him.

>trying to watch his motions, thinking, 

at least he made you think...

sadly, not enough composers are 
writing their own software...
and not enough of the software developers 
are composers...

[so it was probably not him ;-)]

>about what software composers are using on their 
>laptops when presenting their soundwork/music...
>is there a large Max community on this list? what
>other techniques are in use by composers who 
>present their work in this way...for myself I am 
>planning on constructing a patch in Max/MSP

I prefer HMSL.  max makes my wrist hurt and I 
hate drawing lines-->if I wanted to draw lines
then I would use REAKTOR, more bang per line
draw... but my laptop is a 68k 145...  
so hmsl is the only option.  even IF I had a
faster pb I would avoid max/msp.  if you 
build your own program to do the simple shit
msp gives you [in c++ or hmsl] then you get
back most of your computer again...
for example codewarrior costs about the same
as max/msp and learning cw is way more worth
the effort...  and there is soo much code
on the net to cut/copy/paste...  
and in this vain I would highly reccomend
'spongefork' --> written ON a powerbook
FOR a powerbook BY a composer. dreamware...
http://music.calarts.edu/~rf/spongefork/

>great and lovely things about the 
>arrival of the element of chance  

and johnny thinks I've been sleeping!!! 
LOL
chance has been around far longer than 
music or even human life.  And humans
have been integrating chance into music
for centuries.  

-giordano




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