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	While playing with my algorithmic instrument, I was finding it difficult to interact with the parameters while playing my saxophone. I employed a midi foot pedal, but wanted another option for extra accessibility to the software. I was frustrated that a proprietary controller that I owned was just sitting in the corner of my room relatively uselessly. So I embarked upon a mission to try and get it to work with my experimentations. Here are some videos of outcomes.		While playing with my algorithmic instrument, I was finding it difficult to interact with the parameters while playing my saxophone. I employed a midi foot pedal, but wanted another option for extra accessibility to the software. I was frustrated that a proprietary controller that I owned was just sitting in the corner of my room relatively uselessly. So I embarked upon a mission to try and get it to work with my experimentations. Here are some videos of outcomes.

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	The code for this work can be found here : https://git.suroh.tk/audioTools/		The code for this work can be found here : https://git.suroh.tk/audioTools/

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	While playing with my algorithmic instrument, I was finding it difficult to interact with the parameters while playing my saxophone. I employed a midi foot pedal, but wanted another option for extra accessibility to the software. I was frustrated that a proprietary controller that I owned was just sitting in the corner of my room relatively uselessly. So I embarked upon a mission to try and get it to work with my experimentations. Here are some videos of outcomes.		While playing with my algorithmic instrument, I was finding it difficult to interact with the parameters while playing my saxophone. I employed a midi foot pedal, but wanted another option for extra accessibility to the software. I was frustrated that a proprietary controller that I owned was just sitting in the corner of my room relatively uselessly. So I embarked upon a mission to try and get it to work with my experimentations. Here are some videos of outcomes.

	{{video\|webm=http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/~eastwood/20171110_0354.mp4\|style=height:300px;width:auto;}}		{{video\|webm=http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/~eastwood/20171110_0354.mp4\|style=height:300px;width:auto;display:inline-block;}}

	{{video\|webm=http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/~eastwood/20171110_0355.mp4\|style=height:300px;width:auto;}}		{{video\|webm=http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/~eastwood/20171110_0355.mp4\|style=height:300px;width:auto;display:inline-block;}}

	{{video\|webm=http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/~eastwood/20171110_0373.mp4\|style=height:300px;width:auto;}}		{{video\|webm=http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/~eastwood/20171110_0373.mp4\|style=height:300px;width:auto;display:inline-block;}}

	The code for this work can be found here : https://git.suroh.tk/audioTools/		The code for this work can be found here : https://git.suroh.tk/audioTools/

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			The code for this work can be found here : https://git.suroh.tk/audioTools/

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	While playing with my algorithmic instrument, I was finding it difficult to interact with the parameters while playing my saxophone. I employed a midi foot pedal, but wanted another option for extra accessibility to the software. I was frustrated that a proprietary controller that I owned was just sitting in the corner of my room relatively uselessly. So I embarked upon a mission to try and get it to work with my experimentations. Here are some videos of outcomes.		While playing with my algorithmic instrument, I was finding it difficult to interact with the parameters while playing my saxophone. I employed a midi foot pedal, but wanted another option for extra accessibility to the software. I was frustrated that a proprietary controller that I owned was just sitting in the corner of my room relatively uselessly. So I embarked upon a mission to try and get it to work with my experimentations. Here are some videos of outcomes.

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	While playing with my algorithmic instrument, I was finding it difficult to interact with the parameters while playing my saxophone. I employed a midi foot pedal, but wanted another option for extra accessibility to the software. I was frustrated that a proprietary controller that I owned was just sitting in the corner of my room relatively uselessly. So I embarked upon a mission to try and get it to work with my experimentations. Here are some videos of outcomes.		While playing with my algorithmic instrument, I was finding it difficult to interact with the parameters while playing my saxophone. I employed a midi foot pedal, but wanted another option for extra accessibility to the software. I was frustrated that a proprietary controller that I owned was just sitting in the corner of my room relatively uselessly. So I embarked upon a mission to try and get it to work with my experimentations. Here are some videos of outcomes.

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	This experiment for my personal practice is the most interesting, as it starts to allow for the music making away from the development of software. It is a small proof of concept that the instrument that I created gives me musical agency in a different way to what I am normally used to. Still too, I am interfacing with traditional instruments, music and musician, which is another thing to contemplate in the development of this approach.		This experiment for my personal practice is the most interesting, as it starts to allow for the music making away from the development of software. It is a small proof of concept that the instrument that I created gives me musical agency in a different way to what I am normally used to. Still too, I am interfacing with traditional instruments, music and musician, which is another thing to contemplate in the development of this approach.

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			While playing with my algorithmic instrument, I was finding it difficult to interact with the parameters while playing my saxophone. I employed a midi foot pedal, but wanted another option for extra accessibility to the software. I was frustrated that a proprietary controller that I owned was just sitting in the corner of my room relatively uselessly. So I embarked upon a mission to try and get it to work with my experimentations. Here are some videos of outcomes.

			{{video\|webm=http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/~eastwood/20171110_0354.mp4\|style=height:300px;width:auto;}}

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Eastwood at 13:02, 28 November 2017

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 This has spurred my initial experimentation into algorithmic software instruments and various software languages. My sketches have involved hacking MIDI controllers, playing with audio analysis, and deconstructing my traditional musical training. I will explore this world, and establish a group of fellow artists, musicians and interested people to experiment with improvisation focused software instruments. Not only will this assist in developing my personal practice and that of others, I hope to stimulate an active discussion around the agencies a wider adoption of improvisation can provide.
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 Here are examples of experimentations and inspirations for my research and the development of my practice. I have attributed captions to each to explain their context within my final project proposal.
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	Working with these same tools, I tried to apply it to a more conventional context. Here I am playing with the algorithmic generator into my modular synthesiser, a performance sampler and my friend [[User:Ryan \| Ryan]] who is on analogue Synthesisers (drum and keyboard).		Working with these same tools, I tried to apply it to a more conventional context. Here I am playing with the algorithmic generator into my modular synthesiser, a performance sampler and my friend [[User:Ryan \| Ryan]] who is on analogue Synthesisers (drum and keyboard). It is in this situation that I am most excited to reflect on the possibilities of the software instruments and interfaces that I am experimenting with. In this instance, I am solely playing with a fellow musician and irrespective we are able to improvise a piece of coherent music.

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			This experiment for my personal practice is the most interesting, as it starts to allow for the music making away from the development of software. It is a small proof of concept that the instrument that I created gives me musical agency in a different way to what I am normally used to. Still too, I am interfacing with traditional instruments, music and musician, which is another thing to contemplate in the development of this approach.

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	This is a collection of initial experiments with software and improvisation. My training on the saxophone is immediately stressed as I feel in immediate competition, or inferiority against the machine. This triggered different approaches to the software in both its creation, and playing with it. My first conflict was - should I alter the software to allow for my personal musical intention, or should I alter my playing. In the following examples you can hear my early attempts at both.		This is a collection of initial experiments with software and improvisation. My training on the saxophone is immediately stressed as I feel in immediate competition, or inferiority against the machine. This triggered different approaches to the software in both its creation, and playing with it. My first conflict was - should I alter the software to allow for my personal musical intention, or should I alter my playing. In the following examples you can hear my early attempts at both.

			This is a recording of my first attempt at playing along with the same software I wrote for the Special Issue 2. I modified it to work with a [http://escapefromnoise.com/images/zoom/makenoise_0-coast_side1.jpg small modular synthesiser] and a [http://static.bhphoto.com/images/images500x500/264925.jpg MIDI foot controller]. I go in completely unrehearsed (and quite unpracticed after not playing properly for over a year) and try and play along. Here you can really hear both my technical inability, and my ingrained jazz training. It is through this initial experiment that I start to reflect on my position between music, training, software, musician and programmer.

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	Working with these same tools, I tried to apply it to a more conventional context. Here I am playing with the algorithmic generator into my modular synthesiser, a performance sampler and my friend [[User:Ryan Ryan]] who is on analogue Synthesisers (drum and keyboard).		Working with these same tools, I tried to apply it to a more conventional context. Here I am playing with the algorithmic generator into my modular synthesiser, a performance sampler and my friend [[User:Ryan \| Ryan]] who is on analogue Synthesisers (drum and keyboard).

	{{#widget:SoundCloud		{{#widget:SoundCloud