Should be asleep. But all hail the opensource movement!

I should be asleep but I just thought I'd share two things:

1. This ad promoting the Linux operating system always pumps me up. I remember watching it years ago. I just watched it a few minutes ago, and I could pick up all the connections to the open-source revolution. It was a very satisfying rewatch for me and I hope you enjoy.

2. Project Durian, the opensource movie project is doing its part in being a completely opensource movie. Not only will the project files for the movie be available once it is done, but it is relying on much user support to contribute to the movie. I don't know if they went to this extent in the previous open movies, but it truley makes me excited seeing stuff like this.

Off to bed maybe.

-P

CLAMP rant

Sometimes, ignorance displeases me.

Since no one reads this and I know my teacher likes transparency, I thought I'd go ahead and rant.

I got a concise message about my project page. one of the two lines said this:
"calendar is good, but the weekend only work was curious."

I was called out on it in class, and I thought he was kidding. Apparently he was not.

Ok. Let this be known: just because I begin stuff on weekends doesn't mean they'll end on weekends. I fixed the problem so even morons can understand what I mean when I say "begin demo x" on friday.

I am insulted that anyone would think that I am doing weekend only work. The entire electronic music community should be insulted as well. Any person worth mentioning knows it can take weeks to create a worth while track. And thats using familiar software. I'm using over 20 different kinds of software. Most of these I have to learn how to use in a weeks time. On top of that, I have to make something musical out of it. You tell me again that that is weekend only work. I respect this dude alot, but if this man only went to my page describing what Demos were, I think it would be obvious to see that these take time.

As I said before, I've tailored my calender so that an audience failing to read and interpret my cryptic calenders can instead visually see that it takes time. But world, Id like to let you know that this was for you and not me.

My calenders and action plan can be seen at this address

The good news is that I got another bit of advice:
"also add some more details on interviews and such things"
I'll agree with that one. More details on my interviews will be publicly available as soon as possible.

CLAMP Calender

CLAMP calender available publicly at this link:

http://sites.google.com/site/conciselinuxaudiomusicproject/

CLAMP: Rougly Draft

My rougly draft has been made:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcbdsd28_184hk6m33c7

Its basically just an intro, and more is obviously to come. Stay tuned for more!

CLAMP: FST working

FST basically is a program that enables the use of VST plugins on the linux platform using wine.

After much fuss, I finally got it compiled on my system with the help of a website found here. It was a top-hit when I googled for help compiling.


I tried it out. Synth1 seems to work fine except when you try to select presets, and Superwave P8 doesn't seem to have audio (it doesn't show up in the audio connectoin ports when I connect it to jack)

I'll see if I can do anything with this...

-P

CLAMP: Two new books

Ms.Johns is amazing. Let me tell you why.

A week ago, I had asked her if she happened to know any good books on the history of linux. Sure enough, she comes back to me two days later telling me she just bought two new books for the libary. Today, I have them in my hands:

The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond

Rebel Code by Glyn Moody

I read the prefaces and forwards to both of these books, and skimmed the table of contents. I am looking forward to reading these two new sources!

I wonder if the library can help me find any books on specifically computer generated music... hmmm...

CLAMP: online mp3 players

tonight I just finnished creating the first CLAMP audio demo. Under 2 minutes long, the demo utilizes the following applications:

Renoise
Jack
Hydrogen
Aeolus
Zynnsubaddfx
Hexter
Nekobee
Audacity

currently, Im trying to figure out how to get an online mp3 player up and running to play demos. so far, this player seem sot eb my best bet, but there are a few others that I'm going to ry. I have no idea how to use this, but it seems fairly well documented. I'll be uploading the player to my wikispaces account, and I just hope that I will have enough space to hold all the files I need to hold.

Also, stay tuned for some screenshots I took while making the demo. We love screenshots.

CLAMP: lit review rough draft

Working on my lit review right now in class. A second draft to be more specific. The literature review is a brief overview of the sources I've read so far. The rough draft can be viewed publically via google docs at this link.

Draft 2 will be coming soon! I gotta go!

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