thonk_0+2

Continuing my journey into the arcane history of weird music software…I talk about Koan elsewhere but today I want to talk about thonk.
Back when I was doing all my composition on the Macintosh (we’re talking the late 1990s at this point), somewhere I read about thonk_0+2 which was intriguing. Here’s the description from the web [...]

Brain exploding…

I thought it would be a good idea to go through all 3 of the Csound Book CDs and rationalize the directory structure, naming convention, etc. This has been hugely messy. There are tutorials which are duplicated on two of the CDs (sometimes with different versions); extra copies of the Csound ezine, files that only [...]

Csound book back in stock at Labyrinth

Got the new Labyrinth catalog this week. They’re sellers of remainder academic books in New York. I seem to remember that they didn’t have the Csound book in the last catalog, but they are offering it now for $37.98, and the Computer Music Tutorial for $25. Both essential books if you’re interested in the history [...]

Continuing to look at “CD 3″ instruments…

To continue some thoughts from my 28 July entry… this is in reference to the “third CD” that is available for $25 or so as an adjunct to “The Csound Book.” It contains many hundreds of instruments, processors and examples.
It’s extremely interesting and educational to look through all these examples. I have to gripe right [...]

Comments on “furniture music”

There’s not going to be anything really new or earth shattering in this post. It’s just me getting a lot of thought on these issues down in writing. (I’ll try to go back later and fill in some references if I’m too lazy to put them in this draft.)
For a long time I’ve been interested [...]

A couple of Sound on Sound articles

I can link to one, but not the other, unfortunately.
All the way back in May 1997, Sound on Sound magazine (incidentally, my favo(u)rite music technology magazine) there was a good article called “MAKING WAVES: Sound Synthesis On A Computer: Part 2″. Although the title was software synthesis, the Kyma is not really software but required [...]