Month: May 2008

Late summer events

I’ve had a paper accepted to ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) in Belfast.  My paper isn’t directly about livecoding but according to chatter on the TOPLAP list there will be a fair number of livecoding papers and performances around the conference, including a off-icmc livecoding event organised by Graham Coleman.   Looking forward to the schedule appearing…

Just after that from the 29th August is the 3rd annual dorkcamp, a weekend in a field doing strange things with electricity. The previous camps were fantastic, I can’t wait.

Then probably the following weekend, 6th September will be the London Placard headphone festival, an intense evening of diverse back-to-back 20 minute performances over a bank of headphone distribution amplifiers (and no PA).  Always extra-special and full of surprises, it looks like this will be a big one…

The physical modelling of drums using digital waveguides

Joel Laird completed a fine PhD thesis on physical modelling drums in 2001, which included C++ sourcecode for an accurate model of a drum and a felt mallet for hitting it with.  I’ve been in contact with Joel and am very happy to have prompted him to license the source under the GPL.

A .tar.gz file including some windows demo programs and the (Borland) C++ source is here.  I hope to make some time to translate some of it into realtime supercollider unit generators soon…

Thanks, Joel!

*update*

I ported it to GNU C++, a version with my edits is available here.