After the stunning success
[yes I am being ironic]
of
My Music Book,
the integrated music/text thing I wrote during my last
sabbatical (2001-2002), I thought
for my 2007-2008 sabbatical I would write another integrated
music/text thing, only this time even more so! (Does that even make sense?)
That's what faculty-on-sabbatical are supposed to do, right? Either
that or travel to strange and exotic lands for "research" purposes, but
aiport security just makes me too sad now.
So here it is, with NEW! IMPROVED! features like snazzy new sounds and
fun little graphical entities, all reflecting a set of texts describing
different dreams I've had through my life:
BookOfDreams.app.zip
Macintosh OSX [zip archive]; 24 Mbytes download
BookOfDreams.zip
Windows [zip archive]; 15.4 Mbytes download
[NOTE: The application may take awhile (sometimes 30 seconds to over a minute...) to start up, lots of initializing going on! If you are having problems
running the application, check
here]
The big disclaimer, again: I'm much more a composer than an author.
I do like the sounds! For the geekily-inclined, I programmed this
using the
Max/MSP/Jitter
software package from
Cycling '74.
Most of the sounds and the performance/algorithmic music models in
the application are realized using the
[rtcmix~]
and
[maxlispj]
objects I added to the environment. None of the sounds are
sampled; the shawm-like instrument heard is a modified Perry Cook
physical model I coded. It is being performed by a bunch of LISP
functions.
If you're interested in seeing the source (Max/MSP patches), here it is:
I hope you enjoy My Book of Dreams! Let me know what you think,
if you want.
Brad Garton
garton-at-columbia.edu
Fall, 2008
