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Re: [sc-users] Re: How did you learn SC? (was: Textures, drones)

Thanks Thor, good hint,
I redid the workshop announcement

-a-


On Sep 19, 2010, at 11:59 PM, thor wrote:



I once went to Master Joshua and said "master, can you teach me the art of SuperCollider?"
but he just beat me in the head with a bamboo stick.



On 19 Sep 2010, at 22:42, Samuel Potter wrote:

(this is not my creation story, but -a- creation story)

A young artist in Cyberspace met a college friend who had been studying at DXARTS. The young artist asked him what DXARTS was.

"I cannot tell you what it is," the friend replied, "but one thing is certain. If you understand DXARTS, you will not be afraid to code."

"That's fine," said the young artist. "I will try it. Where can I find a teacher?"

"Go to the master Joshua," the friend told him.

So the young artist went to call on Joshua. He carried a keyboard nine and a half inches wide to determine whether or not the teacher was afraid to code.

When Joshua saw the young artist he exclaimed: "Hello, friend. How are you? We haven't seen each other for a long time!"

This perplexed the young artist, who replied: "We have never met before."

"That's right," answered Joshua. "I mistook you for another artist who is receiving instruction here."

With such a begining, the young artist lost his chance to test the master, so reluctantly he asked if he might receive instruction.

Sc-users said: "DXARTS is not a difficult place. If you are an artist, make art. That is DXARTS."

The young artist visited Joshua three times. Each time Joshua told him the same thing. "A young artist should not waste time around here. Go and make art."

It was not clear to the young artist how such teaching could remove the fear of code. So on the forth visit he complained: "My friend told me that when one studies at DXARTS one loses his fear of code. Each time I come here you tell me to make art. I know that much. If that is your so-called DXARTS, I am not going to visit you anymore."

Joshua smiled and patted the young artist. "I have been too strict with you. Let me give you a koan." He presented the young artist with McCartney's SuperCollider to work over. The young artist pondered this problem of SuperCollider for two years. At length he thought he had reached certainty of mind. But his teacher commented: "You are not in yet."

The young artist continued in concentration for another year and a half. His mind became placid. Problems dissolved. SuperCollider became the truth. He made art well and, without even knowing it, he was free from concern of coding or not coding.

Then when he visited Joshua, his old teacher just smiled.

:-)

Samuel Potter
sfpotter at uw dot edu not sfp dot list at gmail dot com

On Sep 19, 2010, at 2:04 PM, tedthetrumpet wrote:


Flip anwer; I'll let you know when I've learned it :)

More serious answer; I'm primarily a score-based composer, but I've always
used algorithmic approaches in generating the notes I use, and I frequently
use pre-recorded sound in my pieces as well. I download and tinker with
anything I can find on the mac which is free and makes sounds or midi, so,
natch, when James got his job with a major fruit company and made sc free, I
started playing with that also.

For the last couple of years I've had the chance of teaching a Max/MSP
course, which gave me the motivation to *learn* Max/MSP, and also to
transfer some of that knowledge across to working in Pd also. SC is a bit of
a challenge, having spent several years of my life assiduously forgetting
everything I knew about maths or logic, in order to become a better
musician, supposedly. But when I get something working, it's just so... I
don't know, powerful!

But as I say, come back to me when I've actually *learned* sc, rather than
just learning how to ask questions nicely here :)

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