[Robotgroup] Robot Group History

[Alex Iles]

James is really quite famous and respected in the electronic music 
industry.  My understanding is that his audio processing and synthesis 
toolkit, SuperCollider, is the foundation of many of the more popular 
computer-based electronic music synthesizers.  The cool stuff he did at 
Robofest and with Liquid Mice with the Mattel Power-Glove controlling 
music was all done in SuperCollider.

He's such a down-to-earth non-assuming guy...yet apparently a giant in 
several industries.

wow.

-ai


Glenn wrote:
> Yes, James made major contributions to early Robofest shows.  His work 
> with sound is quite amazing and
> world class.  He is an audio consultant and has used his software to 
> provide analysis of major theaters - both
> before construction, and "fixing" nasty acoustical problems, in existing 
> buildings.
>
> More later.  The Day job is all consuming at the moment.
>
> -Glenn
>
> brooksdesign wrote:
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>>   He was the main synth guy and illuminati eye for the MicE and my house mate for many years .He also wrote the star finder program that most astronomers use for Hubble because the mega buck contractors version did not work as well .
>> -brooks
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>>> From: Tom Morin <tmorin at texas.net>
>>> Sent: Jan 4, 2007 12:59 PM
>>> To: The Robot Group <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>>> Subject: [Robotgroup] Robot Group History
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>>> Found this while surfing the other night, maybe Brooks or Glenn could
>>> comment on James McCartney and Liquid Mice.
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>>> Tom Morin
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>>>> James McCartney (USA) is a composer and programmer and is the author of the audio synthesis and algorithmic composition programming environment named "SuperCollider". He studied computer science and electronic and computer music at the University of Texas at Austin and composes music for local theater, modern dance and music performances in Austin. He has done residencies at the Staatliches Institut fuer Musikforschung Berlin, Dartmouth, UC Santa Barbara, Wesleyan, and taught a night school on SuperCollider at UC Berkeley. He is a member of the Austin Robot group which explores robotics, cybernetics and the arts, and was a member of a mysterious sound and performance exploration group known as Liquid Mice. He also spent a time writing data analysis and observation planning tools for the NASA Hubble Space Telescope project, which is where he learnt his compiler writing chops.
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>>> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~iterate/FI/speakers.html
>>> http://www.audiosynth.com/
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