http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:24:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes I just want a quick way to send some OSC (open sound control) messages around. I can jump into a Python command line and use simpleosc easily enough, I guess. >>> import osc >>> osc.init() >>> osc.sendMsg("/stupidoscsynth", ["on", 0.2], “127.0.0.1?, 9596) But I spend a lot of time at a *nix command line, ... http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog/?p=134 A while back I saw a post about visualizing sorting algorithms. But what do they sound like? I put together a quick Chuck script that does a bubble sort of a list of integers. Each time it compares two values it first converts the values from a MIDI note value ... http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog/?p=116 This is a continuation of some things I've been thinking about for a while. These things include: uniting HTTP and OSC in some unholy manner experimenting with different kinds of interfaces making some sort of "instrument" that a group of people could play together making some horrible noise My goal going into this was to ... http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog/?p=107 I wrote a little iPhone game based on some of the same principles that I used in the TUIO system I blogged about earlier. In this system, users go to a URL to download a controller, which they then use to control spaceships (little circles on the computer screen). The ... http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog/?p=100 Every once in a while I run across a blog post or a comment somewhere about how somebody wants to send a MIDI message from one computer to another. Maybe they have a keyboard that they have hooked up to one computer and they want to use it to control ... http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog/?p=92 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="490" caption="a little PD and OSC hack"][/caption] This is a little PD hack that lets you set a value using an OSC message. The OSC message comes in on port 5678, and has the following form: /cmd [receiver] [value] where "[receiver]" is the name of the receiver, and "[value]" is ... http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog/?p=85 A little while back Apple rejected an iPhone app that would have let you use your iPhone as a TUIO controller. There was a big discussion about the whole thing over at CreateDigitalMusic, with some people supporting Apple's decision and others decrying it. Most of those who supported Apple seemed ... http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog/?p=79 Last year Tim, Mike and I built some big LED panels for Tim's band Microfiche. Tim is a graphic/industrial designer, Mike is an electrical engineer, and I'm a programmer, and the project was a great way for us to bring all of our skills together to create something cool. Here's ... http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog/?p=62 In the novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, one of the characters has created a spreadsheet that sets data to music. Thanks to Songsmith, we're more or less there now. I suppose it's only a matter of time before Microsoft realizes that the best use for their new toy is as ... http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog/?p=58 Microsoft recently released Songsmith, software that takes a vocal performance and generates a musical score. The original intention, as I understand it, was to give singers (or people who fancied themselves as such) an easy way to put some music around their songs. Ah, but the law of unintended consequences had ... http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog/?p=55