The Csound Group at SoundCloud is a collection of user submitted tracks that are created with the Csound computer music language.
At the time of posting this, there are 39 tracks listed. I’d like to see this number grow. So if you have anything of interest, whether it be a composition, improvisation, or patch, do add it to the group. Providing it’s built with Csound, of course.
Though Csound is my preferred computer music language, I do love exploring the other options. The other big name in computer music languages is SuperCollider, obviously. I spent significant time with SC2 back when it was still a commercial app, and then didn’t touch SC until recently when I picked up The SuperCollider Book.
One of my self-imposed exercises to relearn the platform was to do a piece in the vein of sc140, a collection of SuperCollider compositions that fit in a tweet were curated by Dan Stowell.
fork{{play{var a,x=333;{var t=x=9.rand+1/3*x;a=a.add(SinOsc.ar([t,t+4]))}!9;Mix.new(a)*EnvGen.kr(Env.perc,2,0.1,0,1,2)};0.8.rand.wait}!9999}This exercise proved to be quite a success. Not necessarily for the final piece, but because this process forced me to seriously dig through the language and materials in order educate myself on various tips, tricks and hacks necessary to make everything fit in 140 characters; I’m certain it could be further optimized.
Here’s a spotify playlist I created for the soft launch of the new blog. I’m also soliciting ideas for tracks for future CodeHop playlists. So if there is anything I should be listening to, please let me know!
Welcome to CodeHop.
I’m consolidating all three of my former WordPress blogs into one, and broadening the scope to include all things that relate to code, art and music.
It’ll take some time for me to fully get all the details smoothed out, such as building a custom theme and fixing 400 imported posts. Though content is what’s important, so no point in waiting.
The existing 400 posts come from the following sources:
– Jake