6 Jan
2011
6 Jan
'11
5:15 a.m.
Robin Gareus wrote:
It's all composed. AVS does include a realtime UI but I don't make use
of it. Jean-Pierre's work shows off AVS's realtime interactive capabilities.
The program includes a variety of composition interfaces. Most of my
work uses one of the sequencers, with occasionally the CMask UI.
On 01/06/2011 02:05 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
http://www.csounds.com
Best place to start. Code, compositions, instruments, blogs, etc.
I'm curious as to any forums where people
share the code/setups for
compositions like this.
I'd be interested in those as well.
I've played a bit with CSound, ChucK, Super
Collider, etc., but never made much headway on my own. Having access
to some musically interesting code would likely spur my learning.
I don't know the details on "Quietly Scatter" but it sounds very much
like it was entirely composed (or preformed live) with AVSynthesis.
AVSynthesis abstracts the audio-synth and the
resulting Csound files are
close to unreadable. I tried to extract some instruments from a few
soundscapes that I've created with AVSynthesis and it is no fun.
Hear the man. If you're looking for a readable score generator, look
elsewheres.
An example dumped Csound orchestra+score from AVS look
like
http://rg42.org/_media/wiki/avs-csound.tgz - you should be able to play
it with ./play.sh included in the tgz.
It is possible to exchange AVSynthesis .xml files, though (you don't
need the video-textures to render the sound). But I don't think you'll
learn much from those.
I do a fair amount of detail work through the XML file. A neat trick
lets me write to it during a session, so I can fine-tune settings as I go.
Nevertheless, while AVS does magic, Dave did a great
job composing
arranging this piece. ..but again that's something one can _not_ learn
by looking at the score or the source, though it can be handy to have a
look a at few arrangements.
Jean-Pierre refers to AVS as an instrument. It takes a while to learn
how to play it.
For me, it's a rich composition environment. I still feel like a
beginner with it - there are instruments and effects I haven't tried yet
- and it remains my preferred Csound environment.
BTW AVS is available from
http://avsynthesis.blogspot.com/ - Jean-Pierre Lemoine did an amazing job!
Amen to that. Ditto to the amazing work from the Csound and OpenGL
development communities.
> Also, what about mash ups of stuff like this?
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
Mark, after looking up "define: mashup" I have to say I'm not sure. :)
Other Csound users are on this list, they may be able to tell you.
Best,
dp