i was not happy with the version of Csound i had on my computer running UbuntuStudio10.04. It comes with version 5.10, nearly a year old now. But being "only" a user with some basic knowledge of Linux i was not very confident that i was able to build and install Csound myself. But...

Making the jump from writing basic RAW soundfiles to realtime audio is often a big leap for the newbies to take. Usually it involves the introduction of an external audio lib which often takes some time to get set up. As I use the Csound API for a lot of my projects I thought it would be nice to keep using it so I wrote a simple C program(see attached, rename the file extension from .txt to .c) that lets one use Csound as a realtime audio IO wrapper so to speak. It basically writes a simple csd file to disk which use the chani/chano opcodes to send audio to the host and back again.

I posted these examples to the Csound list yesterday and some folk suggested I post them here too. It's just a really simple Processing applet that controls an instance of Csound through OSC commands. There are more complex ways of getting Csound to speak with Processing and vice versa, in particular see Jim Haeron's article http://www.csounds.com/journal/issue11/Processing.html. If anyone has any questions please free to leave comments. Likewise if anyone makes any improvements please post updates.

pinkcube is an algorithmic adaptation of the song bluecube by Kim Cascone, as presented in this article http://www.csounds.com/cascone/index.html

I really enjoyed bluecube and the article and decided to create an constrained random algorithmic song using the same instruments and based approximately on the original.

http://www.soundcloud.com/brian-wong

One other study on random segment generated waveform.
This time i have used gen 7 (linear segment). Every waveform last 0.125 sec.
and from 2 to 64 segment (each repeted 16 times). Plus reverb, pan, etc.

(made with lua).

ciao,
fran.

I was exploring waveform made by random number. I decide to use Gen 16, that create different shape from points. Then I would like to make a unique sound made by many waveform, starting from the more simple (2 segments for half wave), adding a segment every some new notes. Some random clipping, some reverb, and this is the result.

ciao,
fran.

This is tested on artistx .07 I had opened the app1.py file in idle (I had to install idle) and then I ran the file. This would probily go alot faster if I had some help from someone who knows linux though. It requires csound and python of course. for windows it needs to be in the dex tracker directory and then you click on dex_tracter.bat

http://dextracker.blogspot.com/

Slendronica#1 is my 3rd piece in Slendro using my fractal AC tool. Besides refinement and expansion of the algorithmic composition code, these pieces have served the purpose of trying to find FM timbres that work with 5-TET. If successful, it is highly likely that similar or related designs would be effective in most or all other equal temperament tunings.

I have made 2 songs using a fractal music generator I have created in blue using Jython code. The synthesizer used is in both is one I call "7pm", a seven-oscillator phase modulation synth. The fractal music concept is inspired by that used in Fractal Tune Smithy.

The first song, "Tintinnabulation#1", is a basic example of applying a fractal seed to a single synthesizer. The scale is 5-TET, also known as Slendro.

I have posted some compositions using Csound (granular synthesis, fm and comb filtering) on www.johannesweiler.com - see also www.myspace.com/johannesweiler for other aspects of my interests in music.