While in quarantine at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, jet lagged and severely culture shocked, I realized I didn’t have a birding life list. I had just seen my first Anna’s Hummingbird, and some of the ‘Western’ versions of birds I knew (Bluebird, Meadowlark), I thought it would be a fun activity to finally tally …
I think this would be useful to more than myself. I needed a way to take 2D vectors and turn them into Wavefront OBJ files. So I found a convenient pathway to do so using Blender. I make my SVG files by creating a vector in Illustrator. Make sure you expand your lines, and remove …
Some more old pieces: here is Collision, a conducted improvisation. Players are free to play whatever they want between collisions, but must all follow the directed moment of impact and hold for its duration. Optional melody sequences can also be performed. Sorry this one is Mac only as a compiled application: Collision.zip
Time to post some old code. Here is a score playback application for Györgi Ligeti’s Artikulation. In reality it is Richard Wehinger’s art score (the original piece did not have a written score). This code was written in Processing, and it has two modes: original score playback and generative. The generative part is fun: I …
Ink Well is a generative score created for UWM’s Experimental Improvisation Ensemble. Written in Processing, the piece generates creatures that slither and reach their tendrils outward. Improvising musicians follow these creatures and perform their shapes and movement. The piece will be premiered May 6, 7:30 pm at the Music Building Recital Hall (MUS 175). I’m …
Why would a developer stop supporting an OS that’s only two years old? I imagine a few users (9% of you, as of this post) might ask that question when the next major TC updates drop support for iOS 7. I thought I’d put this out there for anyone who’s interested. Some of the upcoming …
MIDI sync in the TC apps: it’s been on the update list for a long time, which should give you hope if it’s on your wish list, but the bad news is that it won’t be in TC-11 2.0 right away. Beside the technical challenges (Michael Tyson has a fantastic video about this), it’s worth …
TC-11 1.x will soon be the ‘legacy’ version of the app, and from the inside it may as well be a different app entirely. I was trying to think of a single file that carried over into 2.0 untouched, and I don’t think there is one. No where has this been more on my mind …