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> it remains a source of inspiration for many. What do you think gives this particular text such staying power? > Jason: I find Allen’s work really weird and
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> it remains a source of inspiration for many. What do you think gives
this particular text such staying power?
> Jason: I find Allen’s work really weird and enticing. I’m not a
musician or composer. I’m at best a student. His book is a masterful
enticement to exploration.
In the age of plugins and off-the-shelf products that supplant
principles and knowledge we so need arts technology books that hold
this torch.
I still go back to Dodge and Jerse, Curtis Roads CMT, or Boulangers
Csound Book when I am feeling a little jaded with music tech, just to
find a spark of inspiration that sets off a new idea.
- Optimal_Persona 4y agoYeah, the classics are evergreen. Beyond Roads' Computer Music Tutorial, his Microsound is also a classic of the genre and IMO one of the best treatments I've seen of time-based artforms, situating compositional practice in between the Planck time as the lower bound and the age of the universe as the upper. :-) Allen Strange also wrote a manual for programming the Buchla Music Easel synth: https://buchla.com/guides/Buchla_Music_Easel_Manual.pdf https://buchla.com/guides/Buchla_Music_Easel_Manual.pdf Minus the patch storage of the original hardware, you can work through it using Arturia's Buchla Easel standalone/plugin software: https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/buchla-easel-v/overview https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/buchla...