Well, I think I joined the PD list about 18 months ago, but never posted an introduction, because it seemed such a difficult thing, but I'll give it a try...
My background, and primary interest, is in composition and performance using live electronics. I think this can all be traced back to the purchase of a Boss DD-3 delay pedal back in the '80s! I then moved on to hardware synths, and effects, and later CSound and Max (with Max outputting MIDI to CSound - no MSP back then). I did a Bachelor's degree in Sonic Art at Middlesex University in the UK, and then a M.Phil. in Musical Composition at Birmingham University.
Changes in personal circumstances, then caused me to move into a job working in IT/Network support. It was in this period that I discovered Linux. When I returned to studying and composing two years ago, I looked at software in a very different way, and moved straight to PD.
I am currently studying towards a PhD in Music Technology at Birmingham Conservatoire, and also doing some teaching. My main area of research concerns the compositional applications of timbre recognition. I taught myself C from Kernigham and Ritchie so I could write my own PD externals. Since then I have written:
fton - my first external, which calculates note name, octave, and centage deviation from frequency.
flib - a library for extracting various features from an fft
fct~/ifct~ - (inverse) fast cosine transform
dssi~ - A DSSI host for PD.
dssi~ is for a project I am involved in to modernise the works of Jonathan Harvey. Details can be found at www.conservatoire.uce.ac.uk/harvey
My (very out-of-date) website can be found at www.postlude.co.uk, with extracts from some of my pieces, and my externals can currently be found at www.puredata.org/Memebers/jb
That's it really.
All the best to you all!
Jamie
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:10 -0800, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Post a little bio of yourself as an introduction, that's become the standard requirement. It be nice to know what you are wokring on in the Pd-related world.
.hc
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Jamie Bullock wrote:
Dear developers,
I am writing to request developer access to the CVS so that I can add my externals to the repository. I understand that there is no formal procedure for this, so I am just putting myself forward! I have written quite a few externals now (currently available at puredata.org), and it seems like the CVS is becoming a central place for these things.
You can decide whether you think I should be added or not, and I'll give you my sourceforge account details as and when.
-- Regards,
Jamie
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