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Another SuperCollider Thing

August 12th, 2023gordsellar0 Comments

I’ve been busy over the weekend and wasn’t able to advance much in the book yet, but I did play around with SuperCollider a bit more. Here’s some recorded evidence: My old iMac was running out of memory near the end, which is why stuff got all glitchy near the end. Not for this reason but for other reasons, I’m upgrading to a newer Mac, so I won’t have that issue soon. For now, this feels a lot like twiddling knobs on an analog synth back in the day, which is undeniably fun… but I’m hoping that before long I’ll …

Learning Supercollider 1: Starting Out

August 10th, 2023gordsellar0 Comments

So, a while back I saw a few videos of Dan Tepfer’s where he was exploring ideas like algorithmic music and visual representations of music. One video that really grabbed my attention was his exploration of canons and automated canon playback, which he posted on Instagram: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dan Tepfer (@dantepfer) At the time, I was struggling to write a prolation canon for this string quartet I’ve been slowly, off-and-on working on for the last month or so. Sadly, the rules Tepfer mentions don’t apply to prolation canons, only to simpler sequential …

In Their Shadows: Finished (Except…)

March 27th, 2023gordsellar0 Comments

This is a follow-up on a music notation project I’ve mentioned recently. (I’ve been inputting the scores for pieces I still have handwritten manuscripts for. Some are lost, so this is the last one I have on hand.)

“In Their Shadows” Notation Notes: The Halfway Point

March 12th, 2023gordsellar0 Comments

Well, I decided to notate one of the last pieces of music I wrote as a student. It’s the last one I still have a manuscript for that is worth notating, so I figured, why not?

Robot Park (Leadsheet)

February 28th, 2023gordsellar0 Comments

Okay, this is the last of the music projects I’ll be posting about for now. This one’s actually a jazz tune, a lead sheet and a little MIDI playback of the melody, for now, though I’m considering turning it into something bigger.

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