'In C' by Terry Riley

jbum · Joined: Oct 24, 2006 Posts: 26 Location: Los Angeles

I'm sporking this discussion from another thread... Thought it merited it's own subject line...

UPDATE: Corrected the midi note conversrion using Std.mtof().

ge · Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 105 Location: Palo Alto, CA

This is wonderful. One suggestion for faster download and run: if you want, include the chuck source as an attachment. .ck files should be recognized by the server.

Rock on.

cebec · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:44 pm Post subject:

I receive the error:

['In C' by Terry Riley]:line(448).char(2 Cool

: parse error

jbum · Joined: Oct 24, 2006 Posts: 26 Location: Los Angeles

Try it again - I forgot to turn off HTML parsing the last time I posted an update... (or download the attached version).

mosc · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject:

Very cool. Impressive. Cool

cebec · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject:

Yeah, that was terrific! It's striking how Balinese it sounds.

Seruka · Joined: Jan 30, 2007 Posts: 1 Location: London

Thats brilliant! Much enjoyed, although way beyond me, it doesnt actually look that daunting, I thought an in c performance in Chuck would look much more brutal, inspiring.

chuckles · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:35 am Post subject: Thanks Jbaum

I took your version of In C and went through it to try to understand it. I append my slightly modified version (mainly; I distributed the players across the stereo field using an array of Pan2's).

Thanks a lot for posting this, it was a great pedagogical experience (and sort of fun to listen to as well!)

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In_C_137.ck

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J. Baumgartner's ChucK version of "In C" with a few minor changes: for instance: distributed players across the stereo field using Pan2's, fixed what looked like a minor bug where the last player didn't finish, added comments, reformatted the ph

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chuckles · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:49 am Post subject: In C split into two files...

Partly for my own edification, and partly to make it easier to follow: I created a separate file with the note and phrase data for the In C program in a public class. The commands and procedures are in the second file. This makes it a little more wieldy; you can follow the code flow without having to scroll over a couple hundred lines of data. (This also incidentally mimics the CSound paradigm where the "orchestra" and "score" code are separate entities...even if in the CSD format they can coexist in a single file.)

So to run it you simply chuck the In_C_phrases_01.ck file first, then the In_C_commands_01.ck file.

The number of lines seemed to be conserved; in my last version it was about 450 lines total with comments, now we have two files, one 200 and the other 240 lines long.

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In_C_phrases_01.ck

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In_C note and phrase data

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In_C_commands_01.ck

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Procedures and code to execute the In C algorithm; ChucK this after the file In_C_phrases_01.ck

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robhamilton · Joined: Jan 12, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Stanford, CA

Hah, wish I had seen this thread last year.

To keep the thread going, here's a link to the version of "In C" I wrote for the Stanford Laptop Orchestra last year which we used in a network concert with performers in Beijing (+ stanford performers, 20 laptops and a bunch of acoustic instruments)

"iNc: a realization of Terry Riley's In C for lOrchestra

iNc was realized in the ChucK language for the April 29, 2008 performance of In C at Stanford University's Dinkelspeil Auditorium for the premiere performance of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, performing alongisde the Stanford New Ensemble, Chris Chafe (celetto), and musicians in Beijing across the internet at the University of Beijing (Beida). The concert was part of the 2008 Stanford Pan Asian Music Festival."

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~rob/inc/inC-maui.ck
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~rob/inc/server-MAUI.ck
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~rob/inc/instructions.pdf
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~rob/

enjoy,

rob

x_x · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:43 pm Post subject:

very cool.

This is a very difficult piece, the sheet music looks so simple but it's actually very difficult to play it correctly as an ensemble.

telstarmagikistferrari · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 4:11 pm Post subject:

really nice.. I had enjoyed this before, nice to d/l and listen again.

this is a really interesting application of chucK.

Shocked

all the 'real' musicians' worst dreams have come true! computers performing music! Shocked

jbum · Joined: Oct 24, 2006 Posts: 26 Location: Los Angeles

An update on my "In C" project. The ChucK code I originally posted was actually a port of a Python version I made, which produced a MIDI file, some years back.

Recently, I've become very interested in antique mechanical music instruments, and have contacted a number of instrument owners who have installed MIDI controller setups on their pianolas, orchastrelles and orchestreons. I am preparing a version of "In C" which will be played on a single Orchestreon, which has piano, about 10 ranks of organ pipes, xylophone, marimba and percussion. If I manage it video tape it, I'll put it on YouTube and post it here :)

Contact me at jbum "at" jbum "dot" com for more info - I'm not too active here these days.