"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 **
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I will push dated folders of stuff to this project, usually with some thoughts and some code;
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when I have pieces I think are worth listening to, I'll post links to mp3's;
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then, I'll also post bookmarks to delicous;
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so: to follow along, you can subscribe to this RSS feed--simple!
** Other Notes **
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I make plenty of other music, too.
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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.
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For info on how you can use the mp3's of music I'll be linking to here, see the license page.
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You can also find me on Twitter
Copyright (c) 2009 Dan Friedman