Author Archives: Philip Cunningham

The last year has been crazy. Over the last nine months I started and new job at Codeface, attended a Ruby on Rails bootcamp in Manchester, and began studying for an MSc in Intelligent Systems.

I’ve studied, used, and learned an incredible amoun… Continue reading →

Today I wrote my first CL program on the bus. It’ll take me a while to get used to common-lisp-mode in emacs.

;; Summing function
(defun sum (list)
(reduce #’+ list))

;; Calculate the mean
(defun mean (list)
(/ (sum list)
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By adding together sinusoids we can begin to create interesting synthethic timbres. Well, more interesting than plain sine waves. I’ve included examples of how to do this in PD and SuperCollider. I attempted to do this in both languages to get a … Continue reading →

By adding together sinusoids we can begin to create interesting synthethic timbres. Well, more interesting than plain sine waves. I’ve included examples of how to do this in PD and SuperCollider. I attempted to do this in both languages to get a … Continue reading →

Lejaren Hiller – Illiac Suite for String Quartet

John Chowning – Stria

Laurie Spiegel – Old Wave

Buraka Som Sistema – Sound of Kuduro

Sjöman, Raquel Meyers & Goto80 – 2SLEEP1

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Lejaren Hiller – Illiac Suite for String Quartet

John Chowning – Stria

Laurie Spiegel – Old Wave

Buraka Som Sistema – Sound of Kuduro

Sjöman, Raquel Meyers & Goto80 – 2SLEEP1

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Initial Thoughts

There are so many music programming DSLs out there that it’s incredibly difficult to choose which will best suit your purpose. My initial explorations centred around Pure Data (PD). Somewhat arse-from-elbow, this was the first p… Continue reading →

Initial Thoughts

There are so many music programming DSLs out there that it’s incredibly difficult to choose which will best suit your purpose. My initial explorations centred around Pure Data (PD). Somewhat arse-from-elbow, this was the first p… Continue reading →

Short and sweet matrix addition lambda in Ruby (1.9+).

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

matrix_addition = ->(m1, m2) do
m1.flat_map{|m|m}.zip(m2.flat_map{|m|m}).map{|v|v.inject(:+)}.each_slice(m1[0].length).map{|r|r}
end

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