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Thia isn't overtone, but here's some very impressive livecoding in scheme/impromptu ( http://impromptu.moso.com.au/ ), building up to a wonderful piano improvisation which has a very natural feel: http://vimeo.com/2433947
If you like this you may want to check Fluxus. http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/projects-using-fluxus/ And impromptu: http://impromptu.moso.com.au/
pretty cool, and also started using emacs since then....
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That only holds for some kinds of playing. How is your experience with improvisation? Can you manage quick changes? Or does it always tend to be a slow buildup of rythms harmonics and melodies?
Improvisation requires plenty of practice - http://www.amazon.com/Improvisation-Its-Nature-Practice-Musi...
The most enjoyable thing in improvisation, are sudden changes that can emerge in a good session. You typically have less than a second to react to such things. That is, less than a second to change rythm/feel, tempo, harmonics, volume, etc. More often than not all at the same time. Playing like that makes you feel part of the organism from which the music emerges, rather than a thinking actor in a rehearsed play. A feeling that I only find in dancing and other things I do with my wife.
I would really like to get into this livecoding stuff, and have tried ChuCK and SuperCollider. Clearly I never practiced enough to improvise in the live, but I'm wondering if it is at all possible in the sense I described above.
This is great. Thank you. If you're interested in this stuff, also take a look at ChucK, a project out of Princeton's CS & Music departments. I've been extremely happy with its results when generating backgrounds for videos, for instance. http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu
From what I can tell ChucK is no longer supported and has stopped working in OSX Lion.
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Signal flow approaches like Max/MSP and PureData are awesome and have their own strengths and weaknesses - but certainly they have no more or less 'options' or capacity for complexity than any similarly mature text-based DSP system like SuperCollider or ChucK.
Hey Erik ;) Strictly Max/MSP/Jitter is a much more encompassing environment than SuperCollider and ChucK, which focus on audio. The advantage of Max is that it combines a great control language with audio programming, a great video matrix library and a dataflow OpenGL API. Generally there are many more 3rd party contributions to Max/MSP than any of the other media programming frameworks with the exception of perhaps…