Building to the Drop
How we learnt to Algorave by hacking on FoxDot
Intro : Who we are?
- UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park
- Mr Eggleton / stretch___beatz @M
- People who like silly numbers, wait, thats just me (@J). nevermind moving on
Note:
- specialist school for 13-18 year olds
- Algorave Club members are live coding the soundtrack to this talk as we go
The Start
- @M & UTC Sheffield loosely involved in Alograve / FoxDot for years
- Students (@J + a cameo from @A) ask for a Electronic Music Club
- Tiny after-school group starts with FoxDot
Summer
- Live music
- @M writes first version of soloBars()
Note:
- @M sees C.C.A.I. live and Sam does this classic thing of soloing the drums for a few bars before bringing it all back in
- Started playing with foxdot
Algorave Club - Sept 2022
- we start playing with FoxDot
- we tried demoing strudel
- @F suggests soloBars(end=True)
@F Being Clever
- @F defines his method for drop
- Speeds up a drum in a specified number of bars (the buildup), (from dur = Clock.bar_length() to a target dur)
- then solos it for another specified number of bars, then optionally ends the player while it un-solos.
b1.drop(buildup=2, target=1, solo=2, end=False)
s1 >> space(P[1,2,2,4,5].palindrome(), dur=PDur(5,8))
d9 >> play("X", sample=2).drop(target=0.25, player=s1)
What we’ve learnt
@F is clever.
Algorythms are hard.
The pattern for drop is like 40 lines long.
The code
Our FoxDot