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Music, sound, visuals, art.

Friday, 13 July 2007 08:18
Lately I've found myself playing more and more with creating music. Check it out....

Here are some random things I've done with audio...
The Problem Is
Your name is BillyBob
Noah Blues
A programmer wasting time.


If you haven't already, you might wanna checkout my videos I've created...
Personal videos I've made...

Someday I might take the time to setup some podcast feeds...
Podcast Generator in PHP


Useful and interesting links
How to Remix - wikiHow
mekentosj.com | Pianochords Widget
Toplap
(Temporary | Transnational | Terrestrial |Transdimensional) Organisation for the (Promotion | Proliferation | Permanence | Purity) of Live (Algorithm|Audio|Art|Artistic) Programming
Create Digital Music - nice webzine music related.

perl.com: Hacking Perl in Nightclubs - PERL music using OSC and SuperCollider.


dave’s blog of art and programming

When creating music, visuals many times come into play....

Visual programming

vvvv: a multipurpose toolkit : vvvv : a multipurpose toolkit - a toolkit for real time video synthesis.
Processing 1.0 (BETA) - open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.
Context Free Art - generates images from written instructions called a grammar.
NodeBox | Home - a free Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie.









Interactive art

Dave: The Interactive Music Video Installation - cool art project which lets people interact with light pillars to change things within the video shown on multiple screens.



Generative art

Benedikt Groß » Seelenlose Automaten - awesome video. (used vvvv for visuals)
200 Nanowebbers - a pretty cool example of generative work.


Interfacing

GAINER.cc | About / About GAINER - Gainer lets the user handle sensors and/or actuators with a PC on various programming environments such as Flash, Max/MSP, Processing and so on. Open source + Open hardware.
Of course midi and network control provide great interfaces, I have another page for that...
MIDI and OpenSound Control- network OSC and all things MIDI
reactable - vision pattern recognition based using reactable software TUI protocol. (open software!)
openFrameworks - looks like a neat C++ library for creative coding. (not released yet....)


video game music

It is amazing to me to hear what is possible with NES and gameboys.
I do remember some good game soundtracks and it is fun to reminisce. :)
Weekend America: Blip Festival
Blargg's Video Game Sound Emulation
Blargg's Audio Libraries - C++ LGPL woot.
FamiTracker - a free windows tracker for producing music for the NES/Famicom-systems..based on MadTracker.
The Best Game Music!!! 6th - bunch of game music references.
:: BIT SHIFTER ::


Using rock band drums for music creation.

My friend let me borrow the rock band 2 drumkit. But my kids are a bit too young to play still. I wish there were a way to just associate sounds and allow the kids to play around with creating music. Because the drum kit functions like a std. controller and MS gives us XNA it should be possible. Wheres the app at? Looking....
XNA Tutorials and XNA Tools - Procedural Music
Create Digital Music » Game Day: Use Rock Band Drums as MIDI Controller - Windows, Yes, Mac, Soon?
dxprog media - RB Drums - .NET 2.0 code to use the Rock Bad drums as a MIDI controller.
Tattiebogle.net - Mac OS X driver - drivers for mac to use the XBox 360 Controllers.
Well looks like it is possible to controller computer apps...but still not found the xbox 360 babysmash app yet....


UKULELE BOOGALOO presents "SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW"
Melodica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Soundfont and sampler stuff

FluidSynth - FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications.
Swami - Sampled Waveforms And Musical Instruments - is a collection of free software for editing and sharing MIDI instruments and sounds. Swami aims to provide cross platform (Linux, Windows and Mac OSX) instrument editing and sharing software for instrument formats such as SoundFont, DLS and GigaSampler.
libInstPatch – Swami - a shared library which handles instrument editing and also contains a reference implementation of CRAM for instrument compression.


Sample repositories

Resonance Instrument DB - Menu - database of free audio samples and instrument sounds and also provide a place for users to share their own creations. Currently supported file formats include: SoundFont 2, DLS and GigaSampler.


Super Collider

At the Sounding Edge: OpenMusic and SuperCollider3
Last Updated on Monday, 15 February 2010 08:18