Tag: Javascript
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music for parallel consumption: web audio version
Some call me stubborn; I say I’m tenacious. Once I start something I rarely give up, even if it doesn’t go so well. Weakness, strength, or both, this is what probably makes and made me a composer and a programmer. (Oh dear…this is starting to sound like a cliched answer to an interview question.) The…
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Music for Parallel Consumption: An open-ended self-reconfiguring musical composition as app
Composed in 2010 but not released until some final polish was applied in 2015, Music for Parallel Consumption is a 4-channel digital composition made for delivery and playback via a custom computer app. The title refers only partially ironically to the tendency to consume music as part of a backdrop to our otherwise-engaged lives. At the same time as offering…
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Music for Parallel Consumption
Update, January 2016: This project has now been released on bandcamp It’s a lovely word but a little overused by self-help and marketing gurus: serendipity. Those familiar with talks on my slippery chicken algorithmic composition software are no doubt aware of the claims I make for the explorative potential of such systems. I argue…