Online SuperCollider Meetup

SuperCollider Meetup:
Meeting ID: 974 3258 0111
Link: https://zoom.us/j/97432580111

SuperCollider is an open source framework for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It’s one of the most popular and widely used programming environments for sound work and is available for free for all platforms – it can even be embedded on micro computers like the Raspberry Pi and Bela.

SuperCollider is useful for many things: Algorithmic composition, generative music, all things computer music, livecode performances, in conjunction with microcontrollers and sensors, for installation work, multi channel work, dsp, research, ambisonics or simply sound hacking.

At these meetups, SuperCollider users of all skill levels get together to share ideas, frustrations, help each other and show off projects and workflows in an inspiring and friendly way.

Presenters November 20 Meetup:
Eric Sluyter is a New York-based sound artist. His work intricately collages disparate sonic material (memories) into living sculpture, and investigates musical human/computer collaboration. He is interested in time as experienced individually and collectively, in relation to the clock and to the natural world. He is a member of downtown theater company The Wooster Group since 2015, and has collaborated on many other theater, film, art, and sound works. He has been a SuperCollider user since 2010.

I will be presenting a work in progress timeline system / DAW that I started developing this summer, aiming for an alternative to my frequent workflow “improvise in SC and then arrange the recordings in Reaper”, also thinking ideally it could become a flexible real-time tool. Allowing for determinism and total control, also allowing for randomness and non-linearity. So far I’ve prioritized sequencing SC-specific things (synths, envs, patterns, routines) over things other DAWs can handle (audio clips, MIDI piano roll), although I would like to add some of these features in the future. The GUI is written entirely in SCLang, for better and worse. Just beginning to tackle live recording of envelopes, ideally could somehow record an entire improv session. Able to fast-forward envelopes and certain routines and patterns to (optimistically) start playing correctly from any point in time. Mixing interface with DDWMixerChannel. I will show where it’s at and maybe share some interesting problems I’ve encountered, and will be grateful for feedback / ideas / discussion.
https://github.com/esluyter/ESTimeline/

Daniel Mayer (*1967) is a composer who focuses on works including electro-acoustics. Numerous international electronic and contemporary music festivals have programmed his pieces. In 2007, he received the Giga-Hertz production prize for electronic music at ZKM Karlsruhe. Daniel Mayer completed master’s studies in pure mathematics, philosophy, and music composition. Since 2011, he worked at IEM Graz, teaching electro-acoustic composition as a visiting professor since October 2016. In the winter term 2022/23, he was Edgard-Varèse guest professor of DAAD at TU Berlin.
https://daniel-mayer.at

Unorthodox Synthesis, Control, and Spatialization
The talk refers to a topic that involves me from a compositional, scientific, and didactic perspective: the tension between a canonical corpus of knowledge and techniques and the need for the transgression that drives any artistic endeavor. The nature of an environment like SuperCollider particularly supports the latter, offering a vast playground for experimentation and exploration.

About the host:

The SuperCollider meetups are hostet by Mike McCormick. Mike McCormick (he/him) is an artist and programmer working with sound, text, and visual media. Often combining custom algorithms with human performers and ultra-personal material, his work looks at life though a voyeuristic lens to examine the ecstatic, the fragile, and the banal. He grew up in Canada’s subarctic, lived nomadically for a decade, and has been.