[microsound] On impossibility of linux

[Al Matthews]

> Maybe in just
> the same way as linux sometimes lacks some UI stuff for utilities...

The extent of my claims here. The rest is source-diving and opinion.

Thank you Renato. A lovely post. -Al

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Renato Fabbri <renato.fabbri at gmail.com> wrote:
> install numpy
>
> $ python this_file_in_the_link_below.py
> ((( http://pastie.org/1751041 )))
>
> hear something just with the minimum of structure:
> some duration, volume, timber, pitch, temporal localization,
> and spatial localization for each 'thing', 'note' or 'event', minimum
> particle, atom.
>
> and play the output: sequencia.wav
>
> something like 'minimum-fi.py'. (does the term exist already?)
> http://ubuntuone.com/p/kjV/
>
> mess with the numbers in it and make music. When you
> understand something in the code, mess with some structures and
> do more music.
>
> i think windows and mac-related practices lack
> this kind of natural thinking (or materialization of ideas). Maybe in just
> the same way as linux sometimes lacks some UI stuff for utilities...
>
> ps. you can do granular synthesis and spectral music with that script.
> Imagine the rest that is pure direct consequence..
>
>
>
>
> 2011/4/14 Michal Seta <mis at artengine.ca>:
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Joost van der Molen <joostvdm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Or use the free ffmpeg for OS X ;)
>>
>> I tried to use it, actually.  I got stuck in some strange loop of problems
>> with fink/MacOS and the only version I could install was the GUI version
>> which was far from intuitive (IIRC).  I ended up transcoding on Linux.  I am
>> sure that a MacOS geek would have figured it out in no time but this is to
>> show you how important is acquired knowledge, whether we are aware of it or
>> not.
>>
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