[maxmsp] Re: Todd Winkler's Book

I think this comment was directed at the other book mentioned, not Winkler¹s
(which has more than 88 pages for a start ;-).
 I have the Winkler CD stuff on my machine at work ­ I can post it somewhere
tomorrow,
Cheers
Roger


On 3/9/07 16:32, "Daryn Bond" <dlbond at mts.net> wrote:

> 
>> 
>> 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 Useful as a historical document, it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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