Paul Lansky pulls the plug

[Paul Lansky]

james mccartney wrote:

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Paul Lansky <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> I feel that I owe this group some more explanation:

You don't owe us, really. And I felt I understood your motivation. But
I am always worried that I have led people astray with this thing I
wrote.. and one day they are going to wake up and think: "My god! I've
wasted my life trying to use this SuperCollider thing! I hate you
James!"  ha ha.

> My remark about not liking electronic music is more complicated.

I could understand that too.
I like modern art and music most, but I dislike most modern art and music.

--
--- james mccartney

Well, if I hadn't discovered SuperCollider I probably would have changed
my major a lot sooner.  I still think it's the best audio software out there and the only
thing in its class.

paul

[Mark Ballora]

Amen.

>I like modern art and music most, but I dislike most modern art and music.
>
>
>--
>--- james mccartney

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[J. van Dijk]

Did anybody ever implement bonk~ for SC?

Jorn

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[tn8]

 > "My god! I'vewasted my life trying to use this SuperCollider  
thing! I hate you James!"

Oh, dear !

I (we) LOVE you,


takeko
xxx

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[kernel-12]

On 11 Aug 2008, at 19:43, James McCartney wrote:

> I am always worried that I have led people astray with this thing I
> wrote.. and one day they are going to wake up and think: "My god! I've
> wasted my life trying to use this SuperCollider thing! I hate you
> James!"  ha ha.

I became a programmer though SC and don't do music anymore really..  
but that was more like the right path than being led astray.. one  
leads oneself astray i think? :)

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[Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan-2]

2008/8/12 James McCartney <asynth@...>:
> You don't owe us, really. And I felt I understood your motivation. But
> I am always worried that I have led people astray with this thing I
> wrote.. and one day they are going to wake up and think: "My god! I've
> wasted my life trying to use this SuperCollider thing! I hate you
> James!"  ha ha.

For each one of those people, there is a person like me who would have
no other way of making music if SuperCollider didn't exist.

- sekhar

--
C. Ramakrishnan cramakrishnan@...
Illposed Software http://www.illposed.com


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[Jonathan Segel]

wait, wait, wait.. not to keep flogging a dead thread, but... why  
must a composer exhaust their output in a genre before moving on to  
another? can't you just start painting now, even in the midst of  
writing the string quartets?

I understand single-mindedness, but I personally have always been  
involved in so many styles/genres/instrumentation/media in both  
serial and overlapping time frames in my life that I just thought it  
normal artistic comportment. (Until, of course, I lost out in the  
final few spots for the PhD program at Mr Lansky's deptartment a few  
years ago. I was advised to "narrow my focus."  Maybe that's just the  
Princeton way? Can't do something while you're already doing  
something else?)
__________________________
jonathan segel
jsegel-at-magneticmotorworks.com
etc.


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[James Harkins-2]

On Aug 11, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Paul Lansky wrote:

I feel that I owe this group some more explanation:

From some earlier comments of mine in this thread, one might guess that my style would be to drop some firebombs in the press, then sit back and laugh while others make much ado over it. Mischief has its place and time... still I suppose it's a good thing I'm not due for any NY Times interviews any time soon :-p

Much respect for all the great work over the years -- hearing Ride in Beijing in 2005 is still a vivid musical memory, some 3 years later -- and I've no doubt the acoustic work will have the same wit and heart.

hjh

: H. James Harkins

: jamshark70@...

: http://www.dewdrop-world.net

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Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted,

Sing me the universal."  -- Whitman

[Alberto de Campo]

>2008/8/12 James McCartney <asynth@...>:
>>  You don't owe us, really. And I felt I understood your motivation. But
>>  I am always worried that I have led people astray with this thing I
>>  wrote.. and one day they are going to wake up and think: "My god! I've
>>  wasted my life trying to use this SuperCollider thing! I hate you
>>  James!"  ha ha.
>
>For each one of those people, there is a person like me who would have
>no other way of making music if SuperCollider didn't exist.
>
>- sekhar
>
>--
>C. Ramakrishnan cramakrishnan@...
>Illposed Software http://www.illposed.com

Hi James,

let me add that much of my work in the last ten years was done in
different incarnations of SC. Many of these projects would have been
impossible without SC, or at least 3-10 times more headache.

So please add me to the 'very big thank you'-list.


best, adc
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--
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Bergstrasse 59/33
A-8020 Graz, Austria
e-mail : adc@...
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[J. van Dijk]

There's an error in the Env helpfile.

Env.asr doesn't have a peaklevel:

*asr { arg attackTime=0.01, sustainLevel=1.0, releaseTime=1.0, curve = -4.0;

^this.new(

[0, sustainLevel, 0],

[attackTime, releaseTime], 

curve,

1

)

}

Jorn

[Josh Parmenter]

Jorn - 

Please start a new thread when posting to the list (don't just reply to another message and change the subject).

Thanks,

Josh

On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:57 AM, Jorn van Dijk wrote:

There's an error in the Env helpfile.

Env.asr doesn't have a peaklevel:

*asr { arg attackTime=0.01, sustainLevel=1.0, releaseTime=1.0, curve = -4.0;

^this.new(

[0, sustainLevel, 0],

[attackTime, releaseTime], 

curve,

1

)

}

Jorn

******************************************

/* Joshua D. Parmenter

http://www.realizedsound.net/josh/

“Every composer – at all times and in all cases – gives his own interpretation of how modern society is structured: whether actively or passively, consciously or unconsciously, he makes choices in this regard. He may be conservative or he may subject himself to continual renewal; or he may strive for a revolutionary, historical or social palingenesis." - Luigi Nono

*/

[Dan Stowell]

...or in other words, thanks for spotting that Jorn! ;)

Fixed it now, thanks

Dan


2008/8/13, Josh Parmenter <josh@...>:

> Jorn -
>
> Please start a new thread when posting to the list (don't just reply to
> another message and change the subject).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:57 AM, Jorn van Dijk wrote:
>
> There's an error in the Env helpfile.
> Env.asr doesn't have a peaklevel:
>
>
> *asr { arg attackTime=0.01, sustainLevel=1.0, releaseTime=1.0, curve = -4.0;
>  ^this.new(
>  [0, sustainLevel, 0],
>  [attackTime, releaseTime],
>  curve,
>  1
>  )
>  }
>
> Jorn
>
>
>
>
>
> ******************************************
>
> /* Joshua D. Parmenter
>
> http://www.realizedsound.net/josh/
>
>
>
>
> "Every composer – at all times and in all cases – gives his own
> interpretation of how modern society is structured: whether actively or
> passively, consciously or unconsciously, he makes choices in this regard. He
> may be conservative or he may subject himself to continual renewal; or he
> may strive for a revolutionary, historical or social palingenesis." - Luigi
> Nono*/
>

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[curt-21]

>
> You don't owe us, really. And I felt I understood your motivation. But
>  I am always worried that I have led people astray with this thing I
>  wrote.. and one day they are going to wake up and think: "My god! I've
>  wasted my life trying to use this SuperCollider thing! I hate you
>  James!"  ha ha.
yeah like the guy who invented the screwdriver or lever or what have u
is going to wake up thinking that ... ur having us on, i reckon u love
it really!!!

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