[chuck-users] EspGrid 0.42

David Ogborn ogbornd at mcmaster.ca
Mon Jun 10 14:41:05 EDT 2013


Hi Michael,

Thanks for catching this.  I've updated the SVN repository to include the "helpful code" folder/files from now on (and they are there now)!

Yours truly,
David

On 2013-06-07, at 11:56 AM, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello David,
> 
> This looks very cool.
> 
> The docs mention an esp.ck ChucK file and I see it in the 0.42 .zip
> file but it is not in the source tree on Google Code.
> 
>   michael
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:00 PM, David Ogborn <ogbornd at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>> Dear friends,
>> 
>> I am pleased to announce the official release of version 0.42 of the EspGrid
>> software - the synchronization and sharing software for laptop ensembles I
>> have developed around the Cybernetic Orchestra at McMaster, during the
>> project "Scalable, Collective Traditions of Electronic Sound Performance"
>> (supported by Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council,
>> SSHRC).  The software and some additional helpful files (code/patches) can
>> be downloaded here: http://esp.mcmaster.ca/EspGrid-0.42-OSX-10.7.zip
>> 
>> Over the course of the past year, earlier versions of the software have been
>> presented at the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, the Audio Engineering
>> Society Convention in San Francisco, and most recently, the
>> live.code.festival in Karlsruhe, Germany.  This 0.42 release is a "clean-up
>> release" - with better stability and synchronization.  EspGrid has been
>> developed around the ideas of neutrality and hybridity with respect to the
>> languages and environments employed by laptop and live coding performers.
>> The EspGrid application "sits in the background" and takes care of clock
>> synchronization, to a large degree independent of the diverse and multiple
>> "foreground" environments in which performers/creators work.  Another
>> participant in the live.code.festival session (chair Alex McLean, if I
>> recall correctly) provided a perfect example of the intent of the EspGrid
>> software: three electronic musicians find themselves on a train together;
>> despite all using different languages/tools to make their music, they each
>> fire up EspGrid and instantly share a tight common clock and a metronome
>> that anyone can control.  Jamming ensues...
>> 
>> The EspGrid software is being made available to community as free and open
>> source software (GNU public license version 3).  The code base of the
>> software includes a large and growing number of unit tests, and development
>> should proceed according to the principles of test-driven development.  The
>> rudiments of a help/documentation system are in place.  Binary executables
>> exist only for Mac OS X at the present moment but the Windows and Linux
>> ports of the software are the highest, immediate priority following this
>> release.  Windows and Linux users in mixed laptop ensembles don't need to
>> wait for these ports however: there is a "side chain" mechanism that allows
>> users/machines without a running grid to piggyback on a user/machine that is
>> running the grid.
>> 
>> To get/browse the source code, visit the software's Google code site at:
>> http://code.google.com/p/espgrid
>> 
>> Enjoy - and feel free to get in touch for help/issues with the software.  I
>> hope that some of you will find this useful, and look forward to working
>> with you on the (gradual) evolution of this tool!
>> 
>> Yours truly,
>> David
>> 
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>> Dr. David Ogborn, Assistant Professor
>> Communication Studies & Multimedia
>> Director, Cybernetic Orchestra
>> McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
>> 
>> http://esp.mcmaster.ca
>> http://davidogborn.net
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>> 1-905-525-9140 ext 27603
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Communication Studies & Multimedia
Director, Cybernetic Orchestra
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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http://davidogborn.net
http://twitter.com/d0kt0r0
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