[kw-pm] Mar.19 Talk Abstract

[abez]

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abram

Harbinger: Making your desktop sing with the help of PERL

We use a variety of user interfaces during our day to day lives, but
what if software you were familiar with suddenly started to sing?
Imagine stealing events from your spreadsheets, your simulations, your
office tools, your editors, even your video-games. Could these events
make music?  Could the delay and reload of a Quake 3 shotgun come out
as gong sound?  Could the machine gun in Quake3 be converted into an
piano roll?  Could the frantic scratching of the eraser in GIMP
produce beats or the shudder of crystal?  With Perl, C, your favorite
sound generator/player and your exciting or mundane everyday software,
you too can turn your office or desktop environment into a
noisemaker. I present to you Harbinger, a PERL based musical event
middle man. Harbinger is built to massage events streamed from other
applications into musical events for software such CSound, Pure-Data
or hardware attached to your midi ports!

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