These suggestions are not just for DISIS concerts, but could be applied to any electronic music event to help make a better experience for all involved. The following is a list of general problems, issues, and improvements I noticed during this DISIS concert event that I believe should be addressed in the future. My apologies go to Tyler McDonald, John Elder, and Michael Hawthorne for arriving late to the concert and missing their performances. Lastly, Bennett Layman used his own vocal talent as the underlying sample for an instrument to accompany himself as he sang his lovely lyrical piece, "A Clear Midnight." Though my favorite piece for the night would have to be the first rendition of Ian Philips' "MAKR" for its structure, pleasing sound textures, and the overall evolution of both of these. Matthew Turner and Michael Lipnick both showed some impressive Jitter visuals in their respective pieces, "Visual Experimentation" and "Beats Mage's Beats Mage," both of which had good synchronization between audio and visual elements. David Ceritano pitch-shifted guitar chords and riffs, calling back samples recorded earlier in his piece, "Prometheus," to create a good sense of musical structure. Chris Cummins and Maya Renfro sang a haunting vocal duet, accompanied by sparse instrumentation, to capture the essence of the title of Cummins' piece, "Is There Anyone Out There?" Adam Wirdzek, aka Electrobro, showed off some club-hopping beats in his unlisted house dance piece. This concert event was successful not only at showing some good pieces and good musicality that come from the DISIS students, but also at exposing some general problems and critiques of the pieces and logistics for this and other electronic music shows.Īll of the performances displayed a lot of time and effort on the part of the students, and showcased some good potential for up-and-coming electronic musicians within and outside the VT Music Department. I hope you find it useful.įriday, April 29th, students from the Digital Interactive Sound and Intermedia Studio (DISIS) at Virginia Tech performed their final pieces and projects in a concert titled "Organic Circuits." An academic year in the making, all performances involved MaxMSP programs incorporating audio, and in a couple of cases video, with levels of interactivity varying from samples recorded live to pedal boards to gestures captured with Wii remotes. Once downloaded, simply place ist into (user home)->Library->Application Support->TextWrangler->Language Modules. The file can be found and downloaded here. You are welcome to give it a try, modify it as you like, and I would really appreciate any feedback you would like to give.
Since ChucK is not one of the languages TextWrangler has built-in support for, I wrote my own property list to give syntax highlighting to my ChucK files. That may have changed now, but I've become accustomed to using TextWrangler, my text editor of choice, for my ChucKing needs. When I first downloaded ChucK, miniAudicle was reported to not be very reliable.
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While there is an experimental IDE for ChucK ( miniAudicle), you can also run ChucK straight from the command line and write the code with an editor of your choice. Recently, I have been looking into ChucK, the " Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-flyĪudio Programming Language" developed at Princeton, and am developing ideas for some pieces written in ChucK.
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