Hi,
its a hard balance the whole dev/making music thing and its easy with PD to get distracted making things rather than making music.
However in between the recent birth of my son and writing some PD externals I have managed to make some music using PD. You can find it here:
http://www.junklight.com/january02/madeoutofmusic/madeoutofmusic.html
And as for the why? PD to me is a very intuitve way of working. Prior to discovering PD I used the Nord micro modular and my creamware modular a lot - building frameworks within which musical performances where possible. PD frees me from a lot of the traditional limitations of modulars - in particular the ability to work with samples on a very low level.
cheers
mark
junklight - dark experimental electronics http://www.junklight.com
-----Original Message----- From: Matthew Nish-Lapidus [mailto:mattn-l@rogers.com] Sent: 24 February 2002 16:55 To: PD List Subject: [PD] work
hi,
there's a lot of discussion on the list about how to get things to work, externals, programming, etc... all that stuff is great and very helpfull. but PD is meant for artists to use in creating art. i'd like to see/hear about some of the stuff everybody is doing with PD/GEM and how/why they do it. nobody seems to talk about why they need to learn all this information..
so if anybody is doing anything interesting with PD send a message to the list.. or if the list doens't want it, just send it to me.
thanks, matt.