[maxmsp] Re: Todd Winkler's Book

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> I was pretty disappointed with this book.  Yes, it's a thesis, it's  
> 88 pages and very expensive.
>

This may be so, but it does contain some interesting approaches to  
interactive music - pitch and rhythm analysis, musical gestures, etc.  
and offers a framework for interactive computer music theory. There  
are some very interesting biases in the book, assumptions about how  
people listen to and enjoy music that are worth thinking about.  
Useful as a historical document, it reminds one how much can be done  
with MIDI alone, its limitations, etc. something it seems many have  
forgotten, or choose to ignore.

Personally I borrowed the book from the library [yes, for FREE!] and  
read it without the CD examples. I searched around online for the  
examples and found nothing, so am pleased to see this thread. It  
would be brilliant if someone who had these on their computer could  
post some of them here so others may find them, and to rescue them  
from the System 7 graveyard.

It is true the patches are shown in the book, but due to  
encapsulation and beautifully drawn segmented, overlapping, ambiguous  
patch cords, it would be immensely difficult to reconstruct the  
patches from the illustrations.

Would a kind person who has the examples be able to post them? If  
not, could someone send them to me as well? They are definitely worth  
studying and should be part of the archive of this forum.

DLBond

alternate tuning system
tune out. turn off. drop in.

dlbond at mts.net


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