Please note:
the video above is not that which appears on the CMJ live code DVD

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An example video of sdf.sys_alpha being live coded has been published on the Computer Music Journal DVD December 2011 — the full notes for the DVD are freely available as a pdf file.   The notes relating to sdf.sys_alpha are reproduced here:

The video presented here demonstrates an alpha build of sdf.sys, which is a programmable soundmaking software system being developed within Max/MSP/Jitter. There is a basic text editor for script-based interaction; text is used both by the user to instruct the system and by the system to inform the user. The scripting syntax allows several types of command. First, there are geometry-based commands for specifying, and drawing with, points on the plane. There are also commands that manipulate digital signal processing (DSP) abstractions within the system. These abstractions either write to or read from Jitter matrices using MSP signals. Parameters of the DSP abstractions can be queried and set by text commands as well as being manipulable via graphic user interface (GUI) objects. This system is being developed as part of my doctoral research which questions the ways in which sound is represented visually in computer music software; how do the ways in which elements of sound are represented affect the ways we choose to manipulate and organize those elements as music? As a composer the emphasis of my work is upon the aesthetics of the software in use and the musics one may produce with it.

To demonstrate all this in just two minutes of live coding was challenging (my original proposal for this requested seven minutes), and the resulting video that is on the DVD has not been uploaded to vimeo, but some video of sdf.sys_alpha in use can be seen in this live screencast:


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