On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:58:32 -0400 "Alexandre Quessy" listes@sourcelibre.com wrote:
On 8/14/06, David Powers cyborgk@gmail.com wrote:
This info would give pretty realistic modern voicings, when combined with some idea of voicing - not voice leading per se, but avoiding big jumps between chord voicings. Hope this info is helpful, I don't want to clog up PD list with too much of this kind of thing...
I would be interested in using a pd-music mailing list. Would you guys appreciate that ? There, we could discuss anything we want on these topics.
No, I quite disagree, imho the recent topics here have been spot on and in no way inappropriate. Keeping a good cross breeding of ideas between software use, theory, maths and musical practice is great and I'd hate to see that split up. I can see the point of pd-dev, I'm lurking and listening all the time to glean new knowlege about the development and internals. And pd-announce seems to have value for general spamming and event discussion, but I'd like to see the practitioners stay here. Imo, hold the pd-music idea back until such time as the traffic ever gets too heavy or anybody expresses a serious grumble with traffic they feel is OT.
Also, some wiki pages in a (plone-ish) portal could be great. I also thought of a set of PD patches for interactive learning of the musical theory. Good idea, no ?!
Very good idea. I'd think Pd would an excellent vehicle to teach music theory, count me as a first student/guinea pig.
Otherwise, we should write a page for places to look on the net for theoretical music and algorythms.
That too. I've been collecting links and documents on composition lately, and mathematical stuff relating to interesting sequences and geometry, generally more musical stuff than my regular sound effects synthesis and I'd love to share and mix up with more of that. As long as it crosses into Pd. And I'd like to see more good tuts and discussion on integrating Pd into wider environments, explanations by people using it with Csound, CLM, GeoMaestro, Ardour, or even, heaven forbid, MIDI.
By the way, maybe we should avoid putting a general interest wiki page under a user's namespace. And, while I am into it, it would be nice to use something else than Plone (faster ?) like MoinMoin or Drupal or such. Maybe a Drupal at http://patchr.puredata.info/ for patches and a MoinMoin at http://wiki.puredata.info/ as a powerful wiki. Also, a faster server would help... but maybe it is just Plone that is so slow.
I don't see any problem with the speed of the pureda.info server. But I have spoken my mind to others that I think it's underused, poorly maintained and a bit clinical and dull as a resource. I'd like to see it tarted up, a bit more razz and pop! Patch of the week! Celebrity gossip! :)
Andy
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