Comments on: VBS Video: Curtis Roads on the Birth of Granular, Composing in Microsound

By: michel@mos23.net

michel@mos23.net — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:00:49 +0000

@ yeti

maybe it makes a difference that he was one of the first to make granular synthesis possible on computers and practically was the first to extensively think and write about microsound. before that you had xenakis cutting grains out of tape.

that, and i wouldn’t compare your inside with the outside of somebody else.

By: Yeti

Yeti — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:05:47 +0000

The guy makes some good points, but he such a self centered ass hole. It’d be one thing if he spoke highly about micro sound, which he does, but it’s about him making this music, not the music.

By: Tom Carter

Tom Carter — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:48:29 +0000

What an inspiring guy. Please post more videos like this, even from the archives.

By: michel

michel — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:20:27 +0000

yup, that’s supercollider.

now what was that completely unnecessary question about drugs all about?

By: Andrew Turley

Andrew Turley — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:59:41 +0000

@graham, it probably was SuperCollider. He mentions it a lot in Microsounds, which leads me to believe that it is probably his tool of choice these days.

By: graham

graham — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:45:52 +0000

was that supercollider i saw on his screen a few times, i really do think it was? if not maybe it was just a similar gui?

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:45:56 +0000

Thanks for this.

I read Microsound cover to cover, but somehow never got around to listening to the accompanying CD. Instead I went off and started doing my own experiments, feeling like I was cheating because I was using Cool Edit 2000 and FLStudio 8 and a bunch of VST plugins, on a computer that cost me only about a week’s salary.

By: tfstw

tfstw — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:26:13 +0000

the CREATE website (linked above) isn’t updated very regularly these days. take a look at http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/ for a more current look at the department at UCSB.

By: Johan

Johan — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:08:57 +0000

He got perhaps some of the worlds greatest speakers.. Mhmmm.. B&W 802D

By: poopoo

poopoo — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:59:57 +0000

Great interview. Wish there was more of this sort of thing on TV.

watch for the awkward moment after the drug question!