Ruby, MIDI, Archaeopteryx
I greatly enjoyed this rambling but likable and interesting presentation by Gile Bowkett at ごるこ, (loosely) about his work on a MIDI music generation tool in Ruby.
Tags: midi, music, ruby
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May 28th, 2008 at 5:29 am
I have to agree with your assessment: he does ramble, a lot. Probably only spends 10% of the presentation talking about the tool, but still, as you say, likeable and interesting. He’s certainly got a decent mastery of the “Lessig Method” presentation style.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Indeed he does! And that tool he’s writing looks awesome. I’m looking forward to playing around with it when it’s more finished, and when I’ve got some time …
That hack he used to attach to CoreMidi was pretty interesting. I hadn’t thought that kind of thing was remotely possible. And one doesn’t generally think of Ruby as the kind of language you’d use to write millisecond-critical beat generators, but it acquitted itself very well. Fascinating.