Gregory Taylor

Website http://cycling74.com

Tools

Expo ’74 gen~ examples

by Gregory Taylor
Here are a few simple example patches used in my Expo ’74 presentation. …

ATTRACTR a Vizzie Module

by Gregory Taylor
Here’s a Vizzie generator module based on André Sier’s marvellous Chaos library Navier-Stokes object. It gives you properly Vizzie-scaled outputs for each of the 5 component parts of the equation, …

Projects

PGT: Pender/Garton/Taylor

by Gregory Taylor

Articles

Gen Patch-a-day

By Gregory Taylor |

Get helpful and fun examples of Gen, the new Max add-on.

Gen Tutorial 2b: Adventures in Vectorland

By Gregory Taylor |

The jit.pix-based patches we created in our last tutorial do cool things and use patching techniques that will probably be accessi...

Gen Tutorial 2a: The Joy of Swiz

By Gregory Taylor |

A two-part introduction to Gen objects in Jitter

gen~: The Garden of Earthly Delays

By Gregory Taylor |

Sequence of little patches for some audio fun.

Max for Live Tutorial

By Gregory Taylor |

Adding pattr Presets To Your Live Session

Creating a Vizzie Effects Module

By Gregory Taylor |

Here's how you use the Vizzie Kit.

Noise Tutorial 1: Riding Tandem With The Random

By Gregory Taylor |

In the last several tutorials I’ve written, I’ve been talking about a subject that interests me a great deal – how to add va...

LFO Tutorial 7 (Rattle and Hmmm)

By Gregory Taylor |

A simple truth emerges from the practice of writing Max patches like the Max for Live device we’ve been working on: The traj...

LFO Tutorial 6 (Live if you want it)

By Gregory Taylor |

Since a lot of people are interested in what the process of porting a Max patch for use in Max for Live looks like, I thought I’...

LFO Tutorial 5 (LFO Child Slight Return)

By Gregory Taylor |

A while back, I wrote a series of four tutorials based around the idea of how you could generate and organize variety in Max patch...

An Interview with Noriko Matsumoto

By Gregory Taylor |

An amazing artist with an amazing range of work, read the interview of Noriko Matsumoto by Greg Taylor.

LFO Tutorial 4: Building Complexity

By Gregory Taylor |

I'd like to share some really simple things that have worked for me that I hope you'll find useful, or that may provide a startin...

LFO Tutorial 3: Extending Our Generators

By Gregory Taylor |

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 t...

An Interview with Hans Tammen – Endangered Guitar

By Gregory Taylor |

In this interview, Hans Tammen describes his journey into 'Endangered Guitar'...

LFO Tutorial 2: Making Some Noise

By Gregory Taylor |

Last time out, we created the LFOur, a generative patch composed of a quartet of synchronized LFOs whose output we can use to make...

LFO Tutorial 1: The Zen of the Silent Patch

By Gregory Taylor |

I'm personally a lot more interested in the ability to synchronize processes in Max using time values that resemble musical note v...

Getting Around in Radial, Part Three

By Gregory Taylor |

In the previous installments, I've tried to give you a quick hands-on feel for how radiaL operates, paying particular attention to...

Workshop in Delft

By Gregory Taylor |

We held another Max/MSP/Jitter workshop from the 27th to the 30th of March in the Dutch city of Delft (yes, as in "that color blue...

Getting Around in Radial, Part 2

By Gregory Taylor |

In our last installment, I tried to present some really simple and (I hope) explanatory samples of some of the easiest ways to gen...

Getting Around in Radial

By Gregory Taylor |

I've been asked to write a couple of articles that discuss how I learned radiaL, and how I approach using it in a live performance...

Those Invalid Objects are Back

By Gregory Taylor |

The great news is that Fällt is back with a nicely redesigned website. The whole site is well worth a visit and a listen, but you...

An Interview With Tim Place

By Gregory Taylor |

In this interview, Tim Place speaks about his work as a developer and artist, charting the numerous development projects which poo...

We Missed You In New Orleans

By Gregory Taylor |

This last week saw several Cycling '74 folks leaving behind their solitary monastic cells and journeying to the great city of N'aw...

Plug-In Confidential, Redux

By Gregory Taylor |

Since we've changed the way that plug-ins are built, I realized that perhaps it'd be a good idea to find my humble little article ...

The Moon Smells like…

By Gregory Taylor |

On my last night in San Francisco, I decided to check out the newly refurbished iMax theatre in the Metreon down the street from C...

A Workshopping Spree

By Gregory Taylor |

My colleagues Andrew and Meg and I headed over to the new Recombinant Media Labs facility last week for a fun-filled week of Max w...

Om NAMMa Shiva (Part N where N=3)

By Gregory Taylor |

The nature of the booth traffic is visible not only in a relative dearth of exciting action demo photos on my part (I am giving th...

Om NAMMa Shiva (Part N where N=2)

By Gregory Taylor |

We’re behind the Apple booth. This is a good thing in that we are beside and right in the demo audio line of fire of the Sony bo...

Om NAMMa Shiva (part N where N=1)

By Gregory Taylor |

Greetings from the Los Angeles equivalent of a serious cold snap (which equates to an exceptionally nice respite from a Midwestern...

An Interview With David Wessel

By Gregory Taylor |

David Wessel is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley where he directs the Center for New Music and Audio T...

An Interview With Carl Stone

By Gregory Taylor |

San Francisco resident Carl Stone has composed electro-acoustic and computer music exclusively since 1972. He has been commissione...

An Interview With John Eichenseer

By Gregory Taylor |

jhno, a.k.a. John Eichenseer, is the culprit responsible for many of the plug-ins in the Pluggo collection. A musician and program...

An Interview With Bob Ostertag

By Gregory Taylor |

Bob Ostertag is a music school dropout who has since performed all over the world and has collaborated with the likes of John Zorn...

An Interview With Luke DuBois

By Gregory Taylor |

Luke DuBois is a teacher at Columbia University in New York City, and a member of the famous Freight Elevator Quartet, whose "Fix ...

InVeSTigations (part 4)

By Gregory Taylor |

In this tutorial, we'll add some interesting new bells and whistles to VST hosting and take a look at how you can begin to visuall...

InVeSTigations (part 3)

By Gregory Taylor |

In this tutorial, we'll look at a new message to the vst object that lets us load plug-ins without interrupting our audio, and tak...

InVeSTigations (part 2)

By Gregory Taylor |

One quick way to start having fun with Max is to use the vst~ object to host audio plug-ins or VST instruments; you can load plug-...

InVeSTigations (part 1)

By Gregory Taylor |

One quick way to start having fun with Max is to use the vst~ object to host audio plug-ins or VST instruments; you can load plug-...

How do I turn that text stuff into a patch?

By Gregory Taylor |

How do I turn that text stuff into a patch?

Things OTHERS wish people had told THEM

By Gregory Taylor |

When I started this series of short "advice" pieces to Max/MSP/Jitter beginners, I also decided to ask a number of my friends and ...

Things I wish HAD existed (so that people could have told me about them)

By Gregory Taylor |

You, the beginner, are living in a golden age. There are three things out there in the world that didn't exist when I was a b...

Things I wish people had told me, continued

By Gregory Taylor |

We're living in a world where you enjoy a great number of possible tools you can use to realize your ideas; the "fit" between you ...

Things I wish people had told me (part zero)

By Gregory Taylor |

A lot of what I thought was secret knowledge wasn't--it was only a secret if you thought that nothing of any value could possibly ...

Welcome

By Gregory Taylor |

Welcome to the beginner's corner. I will be your designated beginner for the duration of this journey. At the conclusion of your j...

Another reason why you should read the ENTIRE newspaper

By Gregory Taylor |

I have found out that the Bush Administration called off the hunt for weapons of mass destruction? It was buried on page 10, a cou...

Something that came up….

By Gregory Taylor |

In the course of a lengthy and wide-ranging discussion with an old friend, we wound up talking about a particular form of anxiety....

Tales of search and seizure

By Gregory Taylor |

I wasn't planning on googling drug-smuggling secrets...

Winter finally begins. Let’s eat!

By Gregory Taylor |

Here is a local favorite--a curried Zucchini soup with coconut that we found in Molly O'Neill's fantastic year-round cookbook "A W...

A great question

By Gregory Taylor |

An amazing part of my breakfast reading was provided by a fascinating article in the New York Times Science section consisting of ...

Crocheting – it’s not just for scarves and mitties any more

By Gregory Taylor |

This is the Arts and Crafts column

15 (or more) of the top 10

By Gregory Taylor |

The radiophonic portion of my life has an annual ritual associated with it that might surprise no one; a top ten. It's that time a...

Until we find out about the Dioxin, here’s a little Ukraine background

By Gregory Taylor |

Here is a very brief outline on the Ukraine and its current situation. If you're only starting to notice all those news items, thi...

In our off moments

By Gregory Taylor |

Sometimes, you're just not in the mood for hard-hitting or even chatty bloggery. In these times, perhaps recursive zoomable artwor...

Stuck (in my head) on a rainy day….

By Gregory Taylor |

I'm reading at the moment, since there's not a lot of listening I can do. An ear infection I thought I'd whipped earlier return...

the ICMC and other things

By Gregory Taylor |

I think I've recovered enough from the ICMC (and the subsequent bout with an ear infection, replacing a wrecked car, and a few of ...

The AES and other things….

By Gregory Taylor |

Well, I'm finally back home after having survived two major-league spanking machines--the annual AES convention, and the annual In...

More pre-novel-foisting about Neal Stephenson….

By Gregory Taylor |

I know you all probably read slashdot religiously. I should, probably. However, I happened to cruise by the mention of an intervie...

Wow. That last thing was *way* too serious….

By Gregory Taylor |

Wow. That last thing was *way* too serious....

Neal Stephenson (foisting books on a reading public, part ?+1)

By Gregory Taylor |

it's with some surprise that I find myself reading the third novel in Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle" The System of the World, a...

How would Xu Bing sound? (part 2)

By Gregory Taylor |

I've been thinking about the Xu Bing exhibition on and off--more specifically, I've been thinking not about the large installation...

How would Xu Bing sound? (part 1)

By Gregory Taylor |

I spent a pleasant afternoon at the museum, checking out a new installation by the Chinese artist Xu Bing.

While I was away (listening)….

By Gregory Taylor |

So I thought I'd mention what's been the office ambience during this hiatus. As a critic, I'm never certain about how to listen to...

Inexpensive steadicams? really?

By Gregory Taylor |

So, you think that the web is just a bunch of ranting and sixties lampshades over, and over again? Well, cheer up--some kind soul ...

Corrective lenses for the rose-colored spectacles, part N

By Gregory Taylor |

Naomi Klein's stock has taken a jump on my personal index today...

Another defense for murder down the tubes….

By Gregory Taylor |

The news that Hostess' parent company has filed for Chapter 11 protection is disturbing...

Reasons to be radiophonically happy

By Gregory Taylor |

My first introduction to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wasn't those lovely books by Douglas Adams (who I miss very much)--i...

Current events in the Post Office queue

By Gregory Taylor |

In a similar vein, here is a fascinating article on recent developments surrounding the interpretation of Shari'a, the Islamic leg...

Nourishing opportunities for imagination (book pointer)

By Gregory Taylor |

This excerpt from Richard Dawkins' new book The Ancestor's Tale: a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution apparently engages with an...

Joysticks and javascript (fruit on the bottom)

By Gregory Taylor |

I just wanted something like the joystick. Since, as Martin Luther points out, "It is easier to tear down than to build," I decide...

Political blogging and the road trip

By Gregory Taylor |

While I enjoy the thrill of political bloggery as much as the next person, and check in with Joshua Micah Marshall and the vain, y...

Ignorance and the sublime, mingled in a single posting

By Gregory Taylor |

you can send any Max mxj object the viewsource message (Even if you don't have the source, the viewsource message will decompile i...

Flocking analog synthesis (more Max/Moog Modular V fun)

By Gregory Taylor |

While I'm generally interested in generative systems, I've been toying with and thinking about flocking algorithms for the past ye...

Geek x retro x bard =

By Gregory Taylor |

In the midst of all the shoe collections and other diverting ephemera that is the web, one occasionally finds something amazing. H...

Recording absences

By Gregory Taylor |

Someone called me during my radio program last night and wanted to know about artists who, like Moby, had appropriated traditional...

just ducky, thanks

By Gregory Taylor |

I was commiserating with my friend and colleague R. on the phone this week about the difficulty of laying intelligeable voice over...

_, _, burning bright/in the forests of the night

By Gregory Taylor |

We think of demilitarized zones (no, not the computer kind, the real ones like Cypriot Green Zones, the Korean DMZ and the Romulan...

Transliterations (Oh, so *that’s* it….)

By Gregory Taylor |

I have heard it said several times and in several places that followers of Islam prefer to be referred to as "Muslim" rather than ...

Sound and vision

By Gregory Taylor |

I've been thinking about designers who make noise today.

Mapping your ethical data space

By Gregory Taylor |

I'm not sure quite what prompted this, and the graphics have had to depart from standard flowcharting style, but here is an intere...

Culture spaces!

By Gregory Taylor |

One of the blessings of love is what others bring into our life. Or rather, what others may leave lying on the coffee table for us...

“Nothing triggers latent genius like Flash” (Wally)

By Gregory Taylor |

"Nothing triggers latent genius like Flash" (Wally)

20 questions

By Gregory Taylor |

You been polled yet?

Look! The pictures are dancing!

By Gregory Taylor |

One might be forgiven for assuming that I was totally uninterested in a single moment of more television after the exciting specta...

Loss, sorrow, and the small details

By Gregory Taylor |

For all the cheerful chatter about objects that fill the world and the pleasures (great and small) that fill our lives, the facts ...

Truly, we live in a golden age

By Gregory Taylor |

Please ignore my previous mutterings about why I'd want to horse around with my microwave or the robovacuum--I have proof that Blu...

And I’ll probably feel a whole lot better….

By Gregory Taylor |

It's probably normal to be concerned that one is spending time and effort in the presence of important events and providing nothin...

Well said, Mr. Gopnik

By Gregory Taylor |

There's a readerly equivalent to hearing that absolutely godlike bit of a pop song: the well-turned phrase that says something wit...

(Un)conventional mediatic incursions

By Gregory Taylor |

Every citizen who hates America is supposed to be watching the current Republican Potemkin village of a convention, whereby we are...

Mozillas in the myst

By Gregory Taylor |

Beyond the embarrassing confession that I don't own a Playstation or Gamecube or even an Atari, there's the issue of me and splatt...

Waxing eloquent about eloquent wax

By Gregory Taylor |

how the wax cylinder recording came drifting back into my life...

Three small reasons to be happy

By Gregory Taylor |

here is an interesting collection of how something like this looks to someone who's walking quiety around during the setup and tak...

Foisting books on a reading public (number ? in a series)

By Gregory Taylor |

I've just finished a "birthday book" that might interest you--especially after I tell you what I think it's maybe not about.

Moog Modular V and Max/MSP geek-o-rama

By Gregory Taylor |

I've spent a little time exploring the new version of the Moog Modular V that I mentioned recently--more specifically, working on ...

Saying nice things about other companies’ software (one of a series)

By Gregory Taylor |

One of the reasons that virtual synthesis is attractive is that the arrival of the auction/speculator's market such as eBay has ef...

After mulling and consideration and weighing, we point elsewhere

By Gregory Taylor |

I know I am supposed to be writing stuff that derives from my own unparalleled insight and wide experience...

Attn: sea world fans: do NOT read this. I’m not kidding.

By Gregory Taylor |

Attn: sea world fans: do NOT read this.

Jitter inna Pyongyang stylee

By Gregory Taylor |

I know I should have a bad case of Olympic Fever...

Not wanting to say something about Marcel

By Gregory Taylor |

I wanted to visit the Philadelpha Museum of Art in order to fulfill a long-standing wish-visit their Marcel Duchamp collection and...

Heaven in a small bowl

By Gregory Taylor |

Summer Comfort Food

Audible reasons to be happy

By Gregory Taylor |

I spend part of my life doing a radio program of electronic, experimental, electroacoustic, and various other types of music on Ma...

Finding patterns in odd places

By Gregory Taylor |

...my questions to you come down to this: How might these serve as a place to start describing aural order or fittingness or (coug...

I should have written this first

By Gregory Taylor |

Some of my Cycling '74 colleagues have suggested that I blog, or at least post the occasional thing here that I shamelessly foist ...

A hall of fame

By Gregory Taylor |

During a somewhat impromptu goodwill tour of the American east, J. and I stopped off to see my brother Mark, who's currently doing...

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