Posted to YouTube by extrabajs. And check out Milkytracker while you’re at it. :)

Back in mid-90’s, I was sysop of Digital Dissonance BBS, along with my co-sysops Eric of worshiptheglitch.com and Justin of JustinDay.com. They did most of the work. :)

Digital Dissonance was a community where musicians in the 209/559 area code would come and share music. And I don’t mean trading commercial tracks, but music they had composed or remixed themselves.

Minus a few midi tracks, the music was written almost exclusively with trackers. The tracker of choice being Triton’s Fast Tracker II.

Via a twitter comment from Eric, I recently discovered Milky Tracker, a tracker that is heavily inspired by Fast Tracker II, if not a modern clone. Having spent a fair amount of time with it over the weekend, I can personally authenticate that Milky Tracker offers a genuine Fast Tracker II experience. While using it, I felt like I was back on my 386 in my high school bedroom.

I’ve kept most, if not all the mods from Digital Dissonance. At some point, I’ll have to put them up on the interwebs. Until then, here’s a track I wrote 13 years, called Clu.

When I find the time, I’m making one of these.

The guitar sounds quite mandolin-ish, besides the two stings that are on it, i might even (when i get the chance) I might put in an electric pick-up in it.

Thanks to alm of Carolina Traipsing for the link.

Flickr photo by me

Though this may look like a map to an Infocom text adventure, it is a sketch of the dseq drum machine micro-language interpreter, as implemented in Csound.

Flickr Photo by me.

Yesterday, I finally had the opportunity to check ChucK out. Early exit polls suggest that ChucK is awesome!!

What is ChucK?

ChucK is a new (and developing) audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, performance, and now, analysis - fully supported on MacOS X, Windows, and Linux. ChucK presents a new time-based, concurrent programming model that’s highly precise and expressive (we call this strongly-timed), as well as dynamic control rates, and the ability to add and modify code on-the-fly.

If you are anything like me, then you’ll probably want to take a look at the code. Here’s a page full of examples. If two clicks is too many, you can jump straight to whirl.ck.

Perhaps there is a live coding performance in my future.