chuck-lovers, Would have posted earlier, but our server was temporarily down. Wielding my trusty BeeThree => NRev => pan2 => dac and i++, along with a dash of sc.maj and tg.beat => now, I served up two worthy tracks (one cheesy pop and the other one more squeaky and tg.beat/10 * dur[i%7] => now), garnished with crowd response and "{kick,hat,cougar}.wav" => sndbuf.read. In the third round, I fell valiantly to an unmarinated and unmultiplied math.sin trapped in a $ int. Each match gave contestants 2 minutes a piece, which was rough. Most of my improvisation was simply flipping parameters and audicle-shredding off variants of a cheesy pop setting (from my tutorial), with nary breathing time for clever algorithmics---there is much to cultivate. Still, the audience dug the "liveness" of chuck. At one point they turned the video monitor on my code screen, which elicited cheers. Shortly thereafter I shut off the percussion to let the melodies breath, and someone shouted "where's the beat?". I reshredded kick hit kick hat etc..., and got an instant applause. Outside the venue, the winner of Battle II jokingly flipped me off for having programmed onstage. The organizer mentioned in conversation that most entries were probably using Abelton Live, which seemed to let the performers improvise within a well-planned arrangement of samples and vamps. The field was pretty diverse. Several contestants had really bassy beats, several had pop and pop culture mashups (Ducktales, How to Win at Video Games), one had a video presentation (Rick Flair, Richard Nixon), one guy was playing bare melodies right on his keyboard (controllers were banned), and the winner had a very sample heavy jazzy set. Anyway, I made it in the top four, and so will go on to compete in the finals! (this should be sometime in August) I'm still working on my approach for this, as there are still some aesthetic problems to work out. wrap-up from organizers: http://www.zeroplate.com/laptop/2006/06/battle-three-wrap-up.html best, Graham On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Graham Coleman wrote:

ChucKers (who may or may not be in Atlanta),

I'll be competing in Battle Three of the Series. I'll be spinning some live ChucK. It might be silly. But that isn't going to stop me.

more information: http://www.zeroplate.com/laptop/

best,

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