Hi Stef,

This release, particularly when paired with the paper you wrote, is pretty
phenomenal. I think that music is one of the best ways to teach and learn
math, in that visceral way where one feels and cares about it. I think the
work you've done has been instrumental in terms of the "curriculum of
simulated systems" which is an important part of that Dynabook vision
thing, or whatever shape it needs now.

Music education programs are getting cut like *crazy* around here right
now. It's a travesty. The one form of math that everyone who can hear will
feel viscerally, if they just pay attention to it, 86'd in favour of sports.

This is really cool, and as both a musician and a fan of music: thanks for
getting it done.

Cheers!

Casey

P.S.

I loathe working digitally with music, and so this is about the highest
praise you can get from me. I'm trying to convince my band to record to
tape and then do only the mixdown digitally, I mean I'm a total musical
luddite!


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Stéphane Rollandin
<lecteur at zogotounga.net>wrote:

> For someone who wants to follow along and try your code, is there a simple
>> way to hear it?
>>
>
> If you install the latest muO (or download the muo286 image provided at
> http://www.zogotounga.net/**comp/squeak/sqgeo.htm<http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/sqgeo.htm>)
> then the code from the paper appears as a test case in
>
> MuODocumentationTest>>#**testPurdieVariation
>
> You can copy/paste it in a workspace and work with it.
>
> To hear the eventual phrase, do "phrase play". The default synthesizer is
> the first MIDI out port listed by your system (on Windows it is the
> Microsoft MIDI mapper), so you should get some sound.
>
> If for some reason the default MIDI port does not work you can choose
> another one via the "muO objects" menu (yellow click in the World) from the
> "+synthesizers" -> "default synthesizer" -> "MIDI out port" submenu.
>
> You can also use a Squeak synthesizer:
>
> (SqueakSynthesizer new instrument: FMSound clarinet)
>   playPhrase: phrase softer fermata
>
> but here I have had to reduce both notes length and amplitudes in order to
> get a clear sound, hence the "softer fermata" part.
>
>
> Stef
>
>


-- 
Casey Ransberger
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/attachments/20130514/6f7a7857/attachment.htm