Yes please to PD and CSound content.

Indeed, count me in…I think of it as a ‘virtual’ apprenticeship or mentoring, to ‘walk in another artist’s shoes’ so to speak. To work within the constraints of someone else’s toolbox has the potential to lead to many new ideas and inspirations, especially in more experimental genres and sounds.

Homework from the ‘University of the Virtual Universe’, without the work :)

I will be talking a lot more about SuperCollider code next month with all the SC events happening, hope to make a few of those.

You know, honestly, I’d be happy to pay a few dollars for things even in those communities — and would be even more likely to pay if they were released under free licenses, even though theoretically that would mean you wouldn’t have to pay. Wonder how many people feel the same way?

I think that’s actually fairly normal in those scenes; patches represent a enormous data compression (compared to straight recordings); a hour long generative piece might still be suitable for attaching to a email if send in text format.

Examples that come to mind are Jan Punter’s “noodles”; Clavia G2 patch files meant to be listened to as musical pieces, the pop-music generating SC code Nick Collins published or the library of pieces and techniques that comes with the CSound handbook.

I think I’d argue that sharing tools/techniques/sounds is actually more normal in those scenes than it is around Ableton Live but it’s also typically less formal. We could speculate that this might be the result of open source culture as opposed to the commercial product that Ableton is. Then again; maybe such systems have a tendency to blur the line between what is merely a demonstration of a technique, what’s a instrument and what should be a considered a complete work on it’s own. This might make those things less likely to be presented as a “kit”? I also think a “kit” implies the user will only have to interact with it creatively and that most of the technical details have been taken care of, this might make such presentations less likely in scenes where the technical details and creativity are more closely connected.