These days it seems that everyone wants to be an artist so I found it refreshing to meet someone who see himself as an engineer that wanted to create tools for artists. Mattijs Kneppers spoke to me by phone from his home in Holland.
Now that I’ve got a nice generative patch and a way to hear it, I thought it’d be nice to make a few improvements and extensions that would let me begin to specify larger structures – to generate instructions to my generative patch, as it were. While I’m sure that the world is full of people who want ways to have the same thing happen again and again, I’d like to do this in ways that offer a little more freedom than that. This short tutorial will add a modest number of these kinds of changes.
We rolled out of bed and into our suits this weekend to attend the annual Audio Engineering Society (AES) conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, a mere 5 blocks from our SOMA office. We occupied a small piece of real estate in the shadow of the big Mackie booth, and directly across from a booth featuring big reels of magnetic tape.
Cycling ’74′s First Software User Conference
AES • San Francisco, CA • October 2, 2008–Cycling ’74 today announced that its first user conference, Expo ’74, will be held in San Francisco next April. The conference will include presentations, installations, workshops, and collaborative events covering the company’s Max/MSP/Jitter software. Details will be outlined on the conference web site (expo74.net) in the coming months.
I’m pleased to announce that Cycling ’74 will be hosting its first user conference next year, Expo ’74. The conference will run three days from April 22-24, 2009 and will be held at the new (and intensely colored) Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. I’d like to tell you why we decided to put on this event and what you can expect to happen if you attend.
