Nodal 1.7.0

Well we’ve been working away on Nodal and I have to say I actually rather excited by what has emerged. Anyway here is a demo of what will be the final version. It features keyboard triggering so that you can play the networks and MIDI controller information so that all of the parameters that are part of the MIDI world can be sequenced.

Nodal @ HandsFree 3 @ Guildford Lane Gallery

Dear Students

I’m performing some improvsed computer music on Wednesday night using Nodal. There will be some interesting and talented people playing – it would be nice to see you if you can make it.

Peter Mcilwain

Hands Free III – 17/03/2010

Hands Free is a night about software doing things. Musicians and programmers come together in duets between instrumentalists and pieces of software, along with other experiments in autonomy.

This month we have works by Peter McIlwain, Mark Pederson, and Isambard Khroustaliov, who will be delivering a live system from the UK, and performances by Brigid Burke, Adrian Sherriff and Melike Ulgezer.

Works

Mark Pederson: Invisible Territory, generative music work (with performance by Adrian Sherriff)

Peter McIlwain: live performance using Nodal

Isambard Khroustaliov: Axiom, generative music work (with performance by Brigid Burke)

Mark Pederson: Fragments of Sainthood, generative music work (with performance by Melike Ulgezer)

Ollie Bown, Ross Bencina, Brigid Burke, Adrian Sherriff: Double Prosthetic Duo, improvisation.

Details

Date: 17th March 2010.

Location: Guildford Lane Gallery, Guildford Lane, Melbourne 3000.

Time: doors 6pm, music 7 – 9pm.

Entry: free / donations.

Nodal 1.5.0 Demo

We’ve been working away to get the commercial release of Nodal out and its going to happen next week. As a prelude I’ve posted a performance on Nodal using Logic synth engines on You Tube. Have a listen. Here’s the blurb on the youtube page:

A sneak peak of the new version of nodal (coming very soon). This is a short piece by Peter Mcilwain using a prerelease version of the software. Logic is used for its synth engines (which is shown just at the start). Unlike the last Nodal demo, this one is a bit more like “here’s something I prepared earlier” and there is no note programming. Instead a more complex network is given and the video shows how you can turn on and off parts of it in an interactive way.

PMc

A Mixdown Arrangement

Hi All
I’ve made a MP3 file of a mixdown that I did of the material that we recorded. Its not a finished piece but there are some ideas that you might find interesting.

Peter Mc

MIDIfilter software

 Dear Composers
the software that I showed on Monday that filters out MIDI notes has been put up on the Box.net widget. It should run on Windows but you will need Max Runtime (which you download and use for free). Open Runtime first then open the MIDIfilter.mxf file into Runtime.

The way it works is that you take MIDI from software that is playing/generating MIDI and then filter the notes and send it to some software to make the sound and/or record the filtered MIDI information.

Note also that I have included a transpose function the transposes with different settings for each MIDI channel. I often find it useful to transpose one instrument in Nodal up or down an octave.

Anyway have fun and let me know re bugs etc.

Nodal on You Tube

Hi Composers

I have put up a single take performance of me using Nodal on YouTube. This is to promote the release of Nodal 1.1. Just as a favour, if you want to comment,  could you post comments for this on the You Tube site? See:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbFwJB-YF_k

(this is not a Rick Astley link – honest).

 

Peter Mc