Christmas Themes in extempore

[George]

There seems to have been a fine tradition of xmas time extempore performances about this time of year. I only just found Ben's "Another Late Christmas" recently so I went on a Xmas search. Here's what I found:

Christmas Themes in extempore:

Ben’s “Another Late Christmas” https://vimeo.com/groups/82430/videos/86664303

Andrew’s “Carol of the Bells” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd1_nybU6kM

Andrew’s “Variations on a Christmas theme”   https://vimeo.com/18008372

Andrew’s “A Christmas Carol” https://vimeo.com/8364077  

also in    extempore/assets/samples/christmas_carol.aif

and a shorter extract in    extempore/assets/samples/xmas_carol.wav

There may have been others that I missed.

It would be nice if another gift arrived .........

Regards

George

[Michele Pasin]

Thanks for sharing George! Such inspiring pieces. 

PS I have been receiving a lot of spam from this list over the past few days... assuming it wasn't just me, we need someone with group admin privileges to add a new filter for the spam messages..  

@Andrew Sorensen is that just you or someone else also has admin access on the group?

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[George]

Lovely to hear from you Michele

Yes they are great pieces.

I'm particularly fond on Andrew's Carol of the Bells performance - especially as it is done in pattern language

and you can "see" him conducting the different instruments and parts.

Some of the older posts on extempore, impromptu and aa-cell are hard to find.

I'm looking at an old piece of Andrew's where he has 4 separate impromptu callbacks that jump from one node to the other.

http://impromptu.moso.com.au/icmc-examples.html

And I can find no other examples where anyone has used the same idea.

Making a few changes to get it going in extempore. I will put it up on my gist soon.

The spam thing is annoying. Something must be registering in the filter as all the sender icons are red.

I wonder if they are legit posts in another group that have spilled over into the wrong group. Google does that sort of thing.

My wife has a gmail address which has at least 2 ghost users with the same address - except for a dot - and gets messages

and personal information another people's lives and activities! Very interesting. Maybe gmail is prone to such,

Maybe Ben has admin privileges for this group.

Regards

George

[Andrew Sorensen]

Apologies all, I dropped the ball on a few mailing list configuration options, should hopefully now be fixed.  We also have a couple of new list managers :) 

Cheers,
Andrew.

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[Ben Swift]

Thanks Andrew :)

Cheers

Ben

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[Extempore]

Andrew

Wow! I'm chuffed

Regards George

[George]

Andrew

It's Almost a year since You elevated me to a "List Manager" and I still haven't figured what I'm supposed to so or how to do it.

Oh well ...

I haven't been on this list for a while because I have started playing with Tidal and SuperCollider etc.

And from there I tried to learn about Haskell. Thankfully having done a bit of Scheme and xtlang is a great background experience.

But Haskell takes Types to the max and requires a very different way of thinking.

The best learning Haskell resource I have found so far  is "Functional Programming in Haskell" + the advanced one. 

There is Graham Hutton's book to go with it.

Anyhow would like to know if there are any extempore people still out there.

Christmas is coming soon .....

George

[Ben Swift]

Hey George

Nice to hear from you.  In the interests of not leaving you hanging, here's an update from me. I was on parental leave from March 2023 until June 2024, so things have been quiet (on the work front at least) in that time.

Extempore is still my weapon of choice for my own livecoded musicmaking (I did an extempore set at ICLC this year) but on the development side of things Extempore's a bit... perhaps "dormant" is the right word. The music/audio stuff still works fine, but some of the graphics stuff might be trickier, depending on your platform. On macOS there's the added complication that Extempore still requires Rosetta to run (again, it works fine under Rosetta).

None of those things are unfixable (far from it!) but they're also not five-minute fixes, and neither Andrew or I are able to devote much time to making said changes right now. So there's just no timeline on it. But if Extempore is working well for you (or others on the list) then great - it still is for me too :)

Ben

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[Michele Pasin]

Hi George

I'm still using Extempore tunes every now and then. So good to hear from you mate!  

Never tried out Haskell but heard lots of good things about it. Seems like people get into it pretty seriously.. which reminds me of the good old Lispers community :-) 

BTW I've been cleaning up various notes and snippets I accumulated about Extempore recently, so I thought I could make them publicly available as a website.. in case someone else may benefit from them... so as soon as it's live I will def announce it here 

All best

Michele 

PS 

Agree that it'd be amazing to see another Xmas performance from Andrew :-) 

 

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[George]

Good to hear from you Ben and Michele

One of the reasons I began playing with Tidal was I guessed that folk had moved from extempore to somewhere else and tidal looked likely.

I don't care much for cycles as compared to beats but I guess it's something to get used to.

Also the cryptic shortcut functional language is a little mysterious so I went to Haskell to get a better idea of where all that came from.
And SuperCollider is a different game altogether with a much more familiar imperative style.

I'm quite in awe with what ingenious people get up to in their spare time!

Ben best wishes with the paternity leave and child nurturing - that's a learning experience too.

I looked for your latest  to-lap piece but couldn't find it. I wonder if you have a link you could send.

Michele I'm looking forward to your "various notes and snippets" website.

Regards

George

[Ben Swift]

Hey George

Thanks very much :)

The video was just uploaded by the ICLC organisers - it's on YT, and I've got a link here.

Ben

[George]

Thanks Ben

I'll look at that asap

George

[George Wright]

Ben

I finally got around to looking at your video and found the link doesn’t work any more.!

What’s happening?

George

George Wright

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[Ben Swift]

Oh, that’s weird. Here’s the direct link. 

Cheers

Ben

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Ben

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