Industrie Toulouse

	Thursday, September 19, 2002

the jersey acquisitions
Then, I get home to find a new issue of The New Yorker in my mailbox, as well as keys to one of the big package mailboxes - my copy of Throat's 60" somewhere / 60" somewhere else CD's. EUCCI (myself) appears on 60" somewhere - a collection of one minute unedited field recordings (which are remixed on 60" somewhere else, also in one minute intervals).

What I'm most amazed about in the past week is how well quiet noise (ahem) works such as 60" somewhere else or Nurse With Wound's A Missing Sense (particularly the reissue featuring the Ostranie 1913 version of DADA - in this sense, Merzbild Schwet works equally well) blend into the eclectic Pizzicato 5 album さ・え・らジャポン (sa e ra japon). The transition is unbelievable. And delightful.
11:08:16 PM blips[]

0a.sn---ns-

(
Synth.play({
	var home, fname, file, fname2, file2, dur;
	home = "bliss:bliss:bliss:sweetcorn:Eucci-2:z.New Eucci:0a.sn---ns-:";
	fname = home ++ "hyrum57_01";
	fname2 = home ++ "bassDI_01";
	file = SoundFile.new;
	file2 = SoundFile.new;
	dur = 5.0 * 60;
	file2.readHeader(fname2) and: file2.preloadData;
	file.readHeader(fname) and: file.preloadData;
	a = DiskIn.ar(file, true) * 1.4;
	d = DiskIn.ar(file2, true);
	e = FSinOsc.ar(11800, mul:Crackle.ar(1.8));
	b = KateShuffler.near([d,a], 2.5, 0.7, 0.05)
	  + KateShuffler.near([d,a], 5.0, 1.2, 0.02)
	  + KateShuffler.near([d,a], 5.0, 0.2, 0.12, keep:true)
	  + KateShuffler.near([d,e,d], 1.25, 0.3, 0.08, keep:true);
	c = (RHPF.ar(b, 4180, 0.3) + RLPF.ar(b, 480, 0.13));
	j = KateShuffler.near([b,c], 1.5, 1.4, 0.0021, keep:true)
       + KateShuffler.near([b,c], 3.0, 0.7, 0.001, keep:true);
	j ring1: OnePole.ar(LeakDC.ar(j, 0.35), 0.35) * 0.8;
})
)

1:09:04 AM blips[]

Projecting What, Exactly?
It's rough working on a project with little or no software design. I'm a little surprised by this, but after a year of being primarily independant or working with a very small company, it's been made very obvious. We try to do something up front in some quick analysis sessions, and even do some agile modeling (of sorts) to sketch out table/object relationships. But it's not long before the typical ruts happen - even the most agile of models can become difficult to update when you're effectively an army of one, when you have no customer contact, and the real mastermind behind the project is extremely busy with their own projects.

I can come up with a system out of my ass, but there's so much time being spent doing forced thinking - and most of it off the cuff and right into the application server. Remarkably, most of it is turning out well - just slowly.
1:07:52 AM blips[]

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