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Monthly Archives: January 2007
PTB – 1/24/2007
Field recordings of Seattle, including some bits of one-time PTB performer (and Raver’s Edge founder) Monk.
PTB – 1/17/2007
A tribute to the late Robert Anton Wilson. Lots of recordings of RAW, and live AN200 accompaniment. I tried to keep the settings as numerologically correct as best as I could, including one bit with all parameters set to, what else, 23.
MIDILights 1.1
I just uploaded a new version of MIDILights for your perusal. It’s now got support for using MIDI controllers to affect luminosity, hue and whatnot.
I also included a separate composition called MIDINotes, which is the macro patch I use to determine the note played, since QC makes that really hard. It doesn’t give the actual MIDI note, just 1-12 (C-B), or 0 if off. The “velocity” resembles actual velocity, but it’s not correct if you’re playing multiple notes at once, so beware!
I also removed the standalone executable – with QC’s crappy MIDI implementation (you have to choose the MIDI input inside the composition, rather than it taking a default and running with it), it probably didn’t work for anyone but me, or maybe someone else who ran MIDIkeys before starting it up. I may take a stab at doing some kind of CoreMIDI-based implementation, but it won’t be any time soon.
PTB – 1/3/2007 and 1/10/2007
These episodes featured much material from secondattention.org. 1/3 also included field recordings of a vacuum cleaner. 1/10 involved the destruction of a bathroom.
Announcing – MIDILights
I’ve finally finished a Quartz Composer composition that I’m comfortable sharing with the world. It’s a rendition of the clavier à lumières, a kind of light organ from 1915. As MIDI notes come in, it renders the QC view in the appropriate color for the note. So if you’ve been wanting to do a version of Scriabin‘s Prometheus: Poem of Fire, this will come in handy…
It’s nothing too fancy, other than the painstaking process I had to use to get something approximating a MIDI note number from QC. I may post about that later. Check it out and download it here, free.
Update: Download link was b0rken. I’ve fixed it, and as a bonus, added a standalone .app version for those who haven’t installed the OS X Developer Tools. Many thanks to SteamSHIFT for pointing out the brokenness.