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

[Wouter Snoei <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

nice to hear these stories on how you came in touch with SC. Here's  
mine:

I had a first encounter with SC1 (!) when I followed the Sonology  
program at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Someone showed me some  
of the principals and triggered me into trying more. I was already  
familiar with Max on ISPW (MSP wasn't there yet), Lisp and CSound (in  
particular the combination of CSound and ACToolbox, a lisp based  
composition toolbox by my main teacher Paul Berg). It wasn't until SC2  
came out though when I really dived into it. I even bought my own copy  
of it back then, so I could also use it at home. Towards my graduation  
in 2000 I had completely mastered SC2 on my own (it wasn't used much  
by anyone else there back then, and there certainly were no classes on  
it), and I continued to use it as my main "language" basically until  
today. It helped me understanding other languages like Javascript and  
PHP, and I basically used it for almost everything (even for  
bookkeeping). I stayed with SC2 and ditto OS9 for a long time, long  
after SC3 had arrived. I finally switched to SC3 in 2005/2006, when I  
got the assignment for creating an interface for the dutch Game Of  
Life WFS system. Over the past years I've created a lot of classes and  
extensions that proved handy for myself, and I turned those into wslib  
a few years ago to give something back to the community that supports  
my main language and working environment. Which is you :-)

cheers,
Wouter


Op 19 sep 2010, om 17:33 heeft axl99 het volgende geschreven:

> Hi,
>
> since this list seems to be concerned mainly with technical issues,  
> I'm not sure wether my questions fit here, but I'm interested in the  
> musical/technical background of the people on the list. How did you  
> get involved with SC? What kind of coding experience did you have  
> when you started out? How did you learn the basics? What were your  
> first projects?
>
> I'll start with myself: Like Jerome, I first got exposed to  
> programming through web stuff like PHP and JavaScipt I did at work.  
> Being mainly a musician (guitar player, singer), when I found SC I  
> was immediately fascinated by its power and the promise of freedom  
> to create exactly the musical inviromments I was envisioning. But I  
> didn't know much more about programming than processing web forms  
> and looking up stuff in a database. Nevertheless I plunged into it,  
> worked trough the tutorials, wrote a lot of really terrible code,  
> wasted many many many hours, got overwhelmed and frustrated. So I  
> took a break of about a year. One day I fired up SC again, had an  
> idea and the first experience repeated itself. I took another break  
> and now I'm back. This time, with a clearer vision of what I want to  
> do. For now, I'm leaving all of the dsp stuff alone and try to get  
> to grips with SCLang. My little LPD8 step sequencer is getting more  
> powerful every day and although I still think my classes suck, I'm  
> getting stuff to work.
>
> I've given up on the idea of organizing my learning. I learn what I  
> need to know to get the stuff I want to do done and don't worry  
> about what I don't know (which in the case of SC is a hell of a lot).
>
> Cheers,
> Axel
>
>
> On 18 Sep, 2010, at 19:53 , Jerome Covington wrote:
>
> > Thanks Axl. How advanced are you with SC programming? I never have  
> > enough time to devote. I'm always expecting that as I become a  
> > better JavaScript programmer through my web development work that  
> > the OOP and func programming ideas will trickle over into SC.
> >
> > But I need an organized way to learn the native objects. I took a  
> > workshop but need more exposure.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Jerome
> > jeromecovington@xxxxxxxxx
> > --
> > http://www.jeromecovington.com
> >
> > On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:00 AM, axl99 <axl99@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jerome,
> > >
> > > beautiful piece. Thanks for posting.
> > > Axel
> > >
> > > On 18 Sep, 2010, at 02:47 , Jerome Covington wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi list,
> > > >
> > > > I'm still struggling to use code to produce the music I hear. If  
> > > > anyone has time to listen to the following piece my next step is  
> > > > to recreate a similar group of textures in SC.
> > > >
> > > > http://soundcloud.com/jerome-covington/view-from-the-canyon-i-ii-iii-iv-v-vi-vii
> > > >
> > > > The textures I am primarily interested in are the pointillism  
> > > > that opens the piece and the swelling drones further in. There  
> > > > are beats later but I have less interest in that.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Jerome
> > > > jeromecovington@xxxxxxxxx
> > > > --
> > > > http://www.jeromecovington.com


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