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I have found this blog to be very interesting. If you are into the latest in emusic in a range of ways. Have a look.

Create Digital Music is a webzine and community site for musicians using technology. Our unique and influential audience reads daily for the latest news, tips, reviews, and features on digital music making. As a change of pace from the usual, unfiltered product news, our indepedent contributors focus on ahead-of-the-curve tools, DIY music making, emerging trends, advanced software and experimental interfaces, gaming technology, retro 8-bit music, and other themes. CDM is the creation of Peter Kirn, a composer, musician, media artist, and author; he now leads a staff of regular contributors.

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

Nodal Version 1.1beta Released!

Nodal is a software project that I and fellow researchers that the Centre for Electronic Media Art have been developing for a number of years now. We recently received a grant to develop the software further. It is an interesting way to create computer generated music. For those of you working on the Ringtone project it might be useful.

A screen shot of Nodal

About Nodal

Nodal is a generative software application for composing music. It uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. This method is based around the concept of a user-defined graph. The graph consists of nodes (musical events) and edges (connections between events). You interactively define the graph, which is then traversed by any number of players who play the musical events as they encounter them on the graph. The time taken to travel from one node to another is based on the length of the edges that connect the nodes.

Nodal is free software available for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows computers.

To read more and download the software see:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/nodal/