Just thought I’d share… This is the Pure Data patch for Islands 2, unrolled as a poster. Many elements are repeated 12 times. I started making a poster with all twelve of the subpatches, and it became very large, very quickly! Look out for Simon Limbrick’s forthcoming releases, including a recording of this piece with [...]
If you could re-invent your body on a daily basis, what would you do? I remember when I was studying for my degree, in Electronic Music, I used to walk around the streets and shops of Hatfield clicking my fingers in polyrhythmic patterns (7 against 5, 4 against 3 etc) but two arms and two [...]
Working on Islands for Steel Pan and Live Electronics, for Simon Limbrick to play. Part one was performed at Dartington Summer School this year, and went well. The score on the left is from Part 1. This uses Gemnotes in a much more appropriate way for live notation than the first version for vibraphone (see [...]
Gemnotes 0.2.3 is released. There is now support for dynamics (fff to ppp) as well as hairpins. There is also the first articulation (accented notes). Finally, a patch to translate midi files to gemnotes score format is included (translate_midi.pd), and a polyrhythmic quantizing object. These are not foolproof, and editing of the text scores is advised. [...]
I nearly finished work on the audio engine for the Ninja Jamm iPhone app audio engine. What a relief! Probably the biggest PD project in terms of complexity (since it has to run on the iPhone) and sheer hard graft, I have worked on. …update – never say a project is finished until it’s released [...]
There is always a moment in any advanced coding or engineering project where I declare “there is nothing more I can do.” Usually at this point, new possibilities begin to emerge, and I find there is indeed a lot that I can do. I am sure the two are related, and I often feel like [...]
Here is the first version of Islands, using Gemnotes version 1. Although the software works, it’s clear that I have chosen a very linear score (although it was randomized to a certain extent in my realization). I wasn’t expecting this, but I should have. A new way of presenting a score demands a new way [...]
This is Gemnotes, a realtime music notation system for PD-Extended. This is the first ever public release, and there are limitations and things that do not work. The current list of objects include: Staves and clefs (treble- and bass-clef only) Notes with stems, beams, ties and accidentals Rests Barlines, time-signatures and tempo marks The system [...]
The Gemnotes project nears completion. Gemnotes is a live music notation system written in Pure Data (PD). It generates symbolic notation on the screen for musicians to play, and can also be used as a sound-to-notation device for improvisation and music education as well. The seeds of the project were sown in 1997 while at [...]
Here are some screenshots of current projects in Pure Data: