> 1. The new Noel Akchote album RIEN (Winter & Winter), with Erik
> Minkkinen on computer & Andrew Sharpley on turntables. Is this Erik
> Minkkinen the same guy as "Erik M"?
No, they are two different people. Erik Minkkinen used to be in Sister Iodine
(or still is? I don't know what they've been up to lately). I didn't have time
to listen to this album closely yet, but if you liked "Alike Joseph" on
Rectangle or his track on the excellent compilation "Strings & Stings" you
know what to expect.
> 2. Speaking of which, has anyone heard Erik M's ZYGOSIS and care to
> comment?
"Zygosis" is a really good CD. I had seen him a few times previously and began
to find his solo set a little predictable, but there were many good surprises
on this CD: a great variety, a good sense of humor... Another nice -- and very
different -- Erik M CD is the "Frame" 3" CD on Metamkine, where he plunders
the whole "Cinema pour l'oreille" collection in a 20-minute piece.
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Julien
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:00:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Whit Schonbein <whit@twinearth.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: Zorn List Digest V3 #20
> In a message dated 8/23/00 6:08:58 PM, M_WIRZBICKI@ColoradoCollege.edu writes:
> << I've heard rumor that a program called Supercollider is used very
> frequently
> in real time computer music. But I also know next to nothing about the
> technical end of things. >>
then jon writes:
> yeah, that's right. all of the laptop musicians in MIMEO (Fennesz, Pita,
> Marcus Schmickler, Kaffe Matthews) were running this during the 24 hour show.
so then i ask:
i just did a quick peek for supercollider on the web; i didn't find a
homepage, but the tutorials i saw make supercollider look a lot like
Csound. however, Csound doesn't do realtime processing (although it's in
the works). Supercollider runs on Macs; Csound runs on Linux, Mac, and
Windows. The former costs money, the latter is free. is there anyone
out there familiar with Csound and Supercollider who could offer a more
detailed comparison?
whit
ps - yes, i'm thinking about what kind of laptop to buy...
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:22:53 -0400
From: Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Odp: DSP/ electronic references
At 3:20 PM +0200 8/24/00, Marcin Gokieli wrote:
>
>What is Suppercollider? (I'm about to become a laptop musician...)
>
At 9:00 AM -0500 8/24/00, Whit Schonbein wrote:
>ps - yes, i'm thinking about what kind of laptop to buy...
>
I'm with Whit and Marcin in wanting to hear more about Csound and
Supercollider. But I'll also contribute these suggestions:
BackToBasics is a shareware program (Mac/Win) that maps sampled
sounds to keys on your laptop's keyboard. I use it a lot. It also
gives you pitch, volume, and looping control on each key, and a
pitch-bending strip as well. Not real-time recording, but real-time
performing. http://www.reinformation.com/
If you go the Mac route, there's a lot of interesting shareware out
there for audio manipulation. (I'm sure there's a lot for the PC
side as well; I'm just not that familiar with it.) SoundSculptor II
is great for multitrack recording/manipulation
(http://members.aol.com/sculptorii/) and Sound Studio
(http://www.felttip.com/products/soundstudio) is great for
direct-to-disk stereo recording, editing, and some manipulation.
Best wishes for getting your systems noise-ready.
Personally, very happy with my G3 Firewire 400,
Maurice
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Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:23:16 -0400
From: wlt4@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: Sine waves
> Could one of you explain what those sine waves are?
It's the "purest" sound tone, on paper/oscilloscope it looks like the graph of a sine function (basically a completely regular/predictable up and down wave) thus the name. Sort of a beeeeeeee with no overtones, dirtiness, whathaveyou. I don't think audio sine waves occur naturally but could be wrong. Sine waves of different frequencies or that are out of sync will create interference patterns as well.
Lang
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:25:01 EDT
From: JonAbbey2@aol.com
Subject: Re: supercollider
In a message dated 8/24/00 10:05:23 AM, whit@twinearth.wustl.edu writes:
<< i just did a quick peek for supercollider on the web; i didn't find a
homepage, but the tutorials i saw make supercollider look a lot like
Csound. however, Csound doesn't do realtime processing (although it's in
the works). Supercollider runs on Macs; Csound runs on Linux, Mac, and
Windows. The former costs money, the latter is free. is there anyone
out there familiar with Csound and Supercollider who could offer a more
detailed comparison? >>
you might want to take questions like this to the microsound list, which is
full of laptop musicians, including most of the Ritornell roster. to join,
send a message to microsound-subscribe@hyperreal.org.
Jon
www.erstwhilerecords.com
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:31:38 -0700
From: "s~Z" <keith@pfmentum.com>
Subject: Re: thanks & Soft Machine
>>>Every six months they receive a royalty statement & a check that matches
the statement. All without any help from millionaires...<<<
I'm a millionaire, and I buy your CDs.
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:34:14 -0700
From: "s~Z" <keith@pfmentum.com>
Subject: Re: DSP/ electronic references
>>>What is Suppercollider?<<<
It's when the gravy leaks through the side of the mashed potatoes and runs
