In my recent post about my general setup for live coding, I mentioned that I use VIM with a handful of plugins. Here I’ll go into more detail about how I have VIM configured. Plugins I’ll start with what plugins I’m using because some of my configurations will include them. First off, you’ll need pathogen […]
Since I’ve been live coding much more in the past few years, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about and improving my setup. Just thought I’d talk a little about it here. Primary Components: SuperCollider iTerm2 VIM (but any other terminal based text editor will work) Keycastr Processing Most of the time I’m performing […]
A friend casually asked me a question related to making a serialist twelve tone matrix with SuperCollider so I thought I’d share my solution here. DISCLAIMER: If you are in a post-tonal theory class and just looking for a lazy way to make a matrix, stop it! Learn to do this by hand first… or […]
After my recent post about using custom just intonation scales with Patterns in SuperCollider, I was asked how one could use a scale similar to the one used by Karlheinz Stockhausen in his work Studie II, citing the description here: For the pitches, Stockhausen built a scale in which the interval between successive steps consists […]
I often work with arbitrary pitch collections in Just Intonation that can change from place to place. As such, I usually deal with my pitches as harmonies or sets of ratios rather than scales or modes, but sometimes it’s nice to be able to do both. SuperCollider has a built in mechanism for working with […]
Something that I need quite often is to find the difference tone between various pitches. For those unfamiliar with difference tones, it is a physical acoustic phenomenon where when any two frequencies are played simultaneously, you hear the difference between them (the higher minus the lower). If you’ve been around a pair of high instruments […]