LispNYC and Music and a Question

From: Kenny Tilton (ktilton_at_nyc.rr.com)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:41:35 GMT

Tonight was a good night. Howie, Jay, and your correspondent sashayed
down to Harvestworks to meet a crew forming there to play around with
Supercollider, which is apparently to music synthesis software what Lisp
is to programming languages. CSound RIP! (I'm in giant-slaying mood
these days.)

Anyway, the word seems to be that Supercollider wins two ways. First in
making more sense programming-wise, but perhaps most importantly for
generating sound in real-time instead of, well, "save the whole
composition and then play it mode".

As a lispnik, of course I want the dynamism and ability to hack music
while it is playing, and so apparently do the composers present tonight.
  (jay and I were the only hard core programmers.)

Supercollider is programmed in a Smalltalk-like language, and in the
current beta version runs as a server. I am thinking Cello should have
some nice sound, so I am thinking: cl-supercollider!!

Here's my question: so how would that work? An application starts up and
  then kicks off the server so it can drive it? not sure why that seems
odd to me, but it does.

kenny 

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