Dendriet, Haags netwerk voor electronische muziek

One thing I've always missed in MAX/Msp and Supercollider was a sawtooth generator that would output one sawtooth for each trigger it received. Somehow nobody uses this type of oscillator. Supercollider and MAX/Msp 4.5 now have a sawtooth generator that can be reset to 0 anywhere through the sawtooth, but still no one-shot sawtooth generator....
So I decided to program it for Supercollider myself. Download it here.

Maybe I mentioned this site earlier or maybe you already know it.... But I'll bring it to your attention once more. Especially this really appealed to me and probably (even more) to some of my fellow Dendriet buddies.....

Thijs and I performed on the Dok-A boat in Tilburg last week. The performance was both better and longer then the Paradiso performance. It seems we are more in tune and have our concentrations woven into one flow if we do not follow a score. So we decided to not make scores anymore.
Toy Control, @ Dok-A, Tilburg, july 19 2004. 31 minutes, @192kbs, 42 MB.

While I was at it, I continued mastering the Paradiso recording as well. (Note how different the Paradiso's Midas mixing console sounds from the Behringer on the Dok-A ship.) The recording was missing the opening movement due to a minidisk failure, so I added that from a rehearsal recording.
Toy Control, @ Paradiso, Amsterdam, may 17 2004. 17 minutes, @192kbs, 24 MB.

And here's the first occasion:
Toy Control, @ White Space, The Hague, spring 2003. 17 minutes, @192kbs, 25 MB.

Toy Control will perform on the Dok-A ship again, when it is in Den Bosch, during the Boulevard Festival. This will be around the 12th of August.

Today I was trying to construct a drone sound in SuperCollider using triggered sawtooth oscillators. It wasn't extremely complex but it proved to be utterly weird!
The drone sound was very rough, too rough. I had anticipated some rough/noise quality because I was using ringmodulation (how cliché!) and because this patch was based on an analog studio project from the BEA5 studio at sonology, I had some idea on it's soundquality.
It turned out there was some way supposedly indepent signal streams were influencing each other! Commenting out the lines of code controlling/constructing the Y-input of the ringmodulation resulted in less rough sounds from the X-input-signal before it was going into the ringmodulation.
Very analog of supercollider, but not as subtle as I had planned my drone sound to be....

In Europe, the copyrights on a composition are valid until 50 years after the death of the composer. However, the copyrights on a recording of that composition, last 50 years after the release date. So, this means you are not allowed to record "That's allright Mama" again, but BMG had to cash in on it now, as the people are free to do what they want with this recording from januari 2005 on. This is the milleniumbug of the record industry, as it kinda struck them by suprise. Appearantly, when they made the laws, they figured a recording wouldn't last as long as the composition.
I looked up how the dutch law is in this respect. It's the same.
As the tape recorder became commercially available in 1948, allready six years worth of old masters of electronic music have fallen into the sample pool of the public domain. Stockhausen will enter the pool in 2008. Meanwhile, we'll suffer a rock & roll overkill.

π has merely 1.3 tera digits. If this is true, random based music will come to an end, or will at least get old. Likewise, referring to Pi the movie, the stockmarket will be predictable. Also, radio noise will come to an end. And Leon built an end of Pi generator the other day. It's advanced.

@ the archive.org Top Level > Audio > ... > Glitch music with a creative commons license. I do not see how they selected the tracks, though.

1. Since I split up the log in this one and the p2p one, I feel we live under the liveliness treshold that a log needs.
Guess we need categories like the experimental blogger tool xs4all has.

2. We could pay more to xs4all and
- start running our 'own' php/mysql weblog tool, like harold's.
- Or we could still start using the xs4all tool...
- run a php-bittorrent tracker

3. Or we could go for a Mac Based server, which opens up al lot more possibilities:
- php/mysql weblog tool
- run a php-bittorrent tracker
- OSC: run a maxpatch that allows to share controller data
- OSC: run supercollider for that matter
- OSC: broadcast a continious flow of controller data that you can hook up to you msp patch
What more mac specific uses do you see in you mind? Think of a G5 that has a wide connection to the internet, with a fair amount of traffic. Think of a tool that would fit the dendriet concept.

This discussion is also open for outsiders. Let us know what you think.

My fellow students and I once had a discussion with a Sonology staff member, who was claiming Sonology is 'one of a kind' in Yurp. But there's also IPEM, The Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music. They have a nice new concert hall. Also, they have gesture controlled soundcontrollers, and the schematics are here.

But the definitely illegal acts were luckily caught on camera. NSFW. alt click video