I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

Month: January 2012

Pixilang 3.2 arrives

Posted by on in Creative Process, Making things, Mobile Applications, Tech

I haven’t used Pixilang for a long time and so it’s great to see a new version and one with some really interesting new features like:

  • universal containers (pixi-container) for any type of data;
  • dynamically typed variables (for integer or floating point numbers);
  • functions for sound synthesis and recording;
  • functions for block data processing;
  • supported formats: WAV, PNG, JPG;
  • MIDI In/Out.

Of course, or most interest is the functions for sound synthesis and recording and the MIDI in/out as well. Sadly it seems that there’s no Palm OS version though, so I’ll be using it on Windows Mobile.

ZX on 3G

Posted by on in Tech

Getting some music software running on my Jailbroken 3G. Not sounding great so far, but let’s see how it goes. More soon.

This morning’s Music App (part 1)

Posted by on in Creative Process, Mobile Applications, Music

Aurora Sound Studio has been around for a while. First on Windows Mobile and now on iOS. It’s a great music making app, and one that I’ve too long overlooked. So I went back to it this morning, albeit briefly, and was surprised to find some nice stuff in there that I must have made ages ago.

It’s always nice to get a little surprise like that and remember (or not remember) tracks partially made and sitting around just waiting for you to rediscover them.

Processing and text

Posted by on in Creative Process, Making things

I’m getting back into making processing stuff (as you can see from the sketch below), so next I’m hoping to do something a little more ambitious, using text for something more interactive.

Anyway, it’ll take me a little while to get my head around text in processing,

More Processing

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[processing width=”640″ height=”480″ file=”http://www.ashleyelsdon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Mouse_Makes_some_shapes_1.jar” method=”inline”]Load the applet[/processing]

This is a simple sketch I was fiddling with last night. I know it doesn’t do much, but it does show a tiny bit of what you can do with processing in just a few lines of code. Of course, what I’d really like to do with processing is more audio related and I’m hoping to explore more of this soon. Thought I’d share though.