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Presentation at ATMI Conference in Richmond, VA on October 20

Charles — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:33:14 +0000

Open publication - Free publishing - More atmi

I gave an hour-long presentation at the 2011 National Conference of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI) yesterday in Richmond, Virginia. The title of my presentation was Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Interaction and Teaching Music Online. I [...]

Back to America

Charles — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:55:37 +0000

I had to check out from making any posts here for a while, but for good reason. With about 4 weeks lead time, about 6 weeks ago I left Latvia to begin a new teaching position at Full Sail University, a school focussed primarily on digital media arts just outside Orlando, Florida. I’m [...]

Functions, Objects & Arrays in Processing

Charles — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:12:44 +0000

As part of my exploration of the program Processing, I’ve been trying to work out the differences between Functions, Objects, and Arrays. In this first example, I made a car Function, where I can basically use one Function that describes the size of the rectangle to draw, and the relationship of the ‘wheels’ [...]

Back to Processing

Charles — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:48:33 +0000

About 9 months ago, maybe more, I put up a couple of examples of early attempts to grapple with the graphics/animation program called Processing. I was originally trying to learn the program because I’m interested in the possibilities of marrying visual and (eventually) musical elements and interactivity, and I was hoping to learn [...]

U.S. Embassy lecture tour on Rock music and American Culture

Charles — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:33:26 +0000

The American Embassy in Riga has invited me to lecture on the relationship between rock music and American culture as part of its annual Month of American Culture.

During these lectures, I will discuss selected songs as a window to understanding sociopolitical and other cultural trends in post WW II America. The [...]

Generative Music – Part I – Tiction

Charles — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:12:02 +0000

One of the reasons you’ve been seeing posts from me lately about the graphic arts software programs Inkscape and Processing is because I’m in the planning stages of a multi-movement, electroacoustic, multi-media work that I will write for a flute quartet based in Rīga (and possibly a second [...]

My robot is now interactive. Come with me if you want to live.

Charles — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:51:09 +0000

I also figured out how to make this flying robot loop.

This one, where you move the mouse moves the robot, and also changes his eye and tele-belly color. If you move the mouse fast enough, his antennae get wonky. Also, if you push a key on your keyboard (for me, I have [...]

Inkscape Practice

Charles — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:24:26 +0000

The Swedish and EU flags were made from the first two official Inkscape tutorials.

I gave myself the Andy Warhol treatment following this tutorial.

The chrome letter effect was made by following a video tutorial over at youtube.
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Solving an Inkscape Effect Problem with “Path to Pattern” on Mac OS X 10.5.8

Charles — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:44:25 +0000

I’m new to Inkscape and have been trying a small handful of tutorials I’ve found online. In the middle of a compass-making tutorial, while trying to use “Path to Pattern Effect”, I ran into the following wall:

The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required [...]

Nätverksläger för tonsättare och musiker at Klackbergsgården, in Norberg, Sweden, July 27-August 1

Charles — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:40:58 +0000

At a conference in Helsinki in October 2008, I met Swedish composer Martin Larsson, who told me about a pilot project he was running in Norberg, Sweden with guitarist Patrik Karlsson called New Music Incubator (literally, Networking Camp, which sounds better in Swedish than English) for [...]