2007/10/18, Josh Clayton <claytonster@gmail.com>:
quoted 8 lines There are plenty of musicians, not many of which fall neatly into the IDM
>
> There are plenty of musicians, not many of which fall neatly into the IDM
> category, that exclusively use tools like Csound, ChucK, Supercollider,
> Max,
> etc. to make their music. I'd say they're more on the academically
> experimental side of things, like Florian Hecker or Iannis Xenakis.
> Probably lots of professors and students of music technology and related
> fields.
I read that Autechre uses Max/DSP with homemade patches, but that's about
it.
I wouldn't call it "limiting" either using stuff like this. There are hardly
any limits when you get down to programming your own patches or software,
but the learning curve is pretty steep.
I started trying out Chuck and PureData at some point, but I found it too
much work to come up with anything sounding good enough.
It's not about writing music anymore with these kind of tools. It's more
about programming your own sound.
Which is cool, but something completely different.
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