ep-3xx41 Max – week 8

David Zicarelli from Cycling74

Notes:

– Music is technology independent.

– Technology has a sound.

Music exists on a continuum from predicability to unpredicability

• David on Miller Puckette: He programmed with a bottle of Scotch (a chemical version of Occam’s razor?) His code also featured swear words as variable names. And allegedly he did not always wear pants while working
• One of Cycling74’s goals was simply to make Max into a commercial product.
• I was rejected from every graduate  school music program that I applied to.
• The Internet provides an equivalent way for introverts to seek out extroverted people.
• I do wear pants when I’m working.
• The “jumping Rhoomba” – [When you don’t understand how to program something you can get interesting results].
• The world has the same properties as a musical instrument.
• Nobody cares about technology – just the outcome.
• Computers were designed for office work.
• David Rokeby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rokeby Using cameras as controllers to make sound. (specularity)
• For example, Autotune technology has a sound.

Assignment:

Make music based on the two concepts:

• music is technology independent
• technology has a sound