x: csoundings

"The hardest part of artmaking is living your life in such a way that your work gets done, over and over--and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful." -- David Bayles and Ted Orland, Art & Fear

I find myself working differently with music than I used to. Especially these days when time seems to feel so fragmented, much of my musical activity (both music-making and music-listening) is interstitial -- I'm drawn to things I can listen to (and music I can write) in between other things, in a semi-distracted state. Why fight it?

In particular, I've been applying my coding "chops" as a means of musical activity, mostly in csound; although my time is fragmented, the musical results are certainly more composed than the stuff I've done in the past.

What This Is

This is a place for me to collect little tidbits, ideas, fragments, maybe even finished pieces. I'm figuring out how to use the materials as I go, so it starts with a project to explore csound as a means of making the music I want to make. That involves figuring out how to do some stuff with csound that I don't see other people doing. Keeping it all organized (and forcing myself to write about it) will hopefully be helpful to me, and who knows, maybe to others, too.

How It Works

• I will push dated folders of stuff to this project, usually with some thoughts and some code;

• when I have pieces I think are worth listening to, I'll post links to mp3's;

• then, I'll also post bookmarks to delicous;

• so: to follow along, you can subscribe to this RSS feed--simple!

Other Notes

• I make plenty of other music, too.

• Big thanks to Phillip "hiffy" Mendonca-Vieira for pointing me to Reg Braithwaite's Homoiconic, and big thanks to Reg for building such a fine example of using github for this kind of code publication.

• For info on how you can use the mp3's of music I'll be linking to here, see the license page.

• You can also find me on Twitter

Copyright (c) 2009 Dan Friedman