NIME 2005 ChucK Workshop

Note: Please head to the registration desk in the FSC Atrium to pick up your conference materials before heading to the workshop in room 1611.

name: Mapping Controllers with ChucK
workshoppers: Ge Wang, Perry Cook, Ananya Misra, Ajay Kapur
cost: to be announced
date: May 25th, 2005
time: 1/2 day
location: Vancouver, BC, (exact location to be announced)

Description

ChucK is a new audio programming language for real-time sound synthesis (and analysis) ChucK's language-level control over precise-timing and concurrency makes it a powerful tool for synthesis and controller mapping. ChucK combines the rapid prototyping aspect (and ease) of Pd with the fundamental expressiveness of C/C++. Participants can quickly learn to write complex (yet easy to read) synthesis/controller code.

What is ChucK?

• an audio programming language (real-time synthesis, analysis, and input devices)
• strongly-timed, precise control over time
• concurrent programming
• on-the-fly (write/edit code at runtime)
• expressive, powerful, and rapid controller programming
• powerful yet easy-to-learn

What to expect:

• focused introduction to ChucK (no prior experience with ChucK necessary)
• mapping controllers with ChucK
  • real-time sound synthesis
  • basic real-time controller (by example)
  • basic input/output
    • MIDI
    • OSC
  • polling controllers at ANY rate
  • multiple control rates
  • events
  • properties/guarantees of ChucK + controllers
• advanced features (made easy) in ChucK
  • on-the-fly mapping change
  • on-the-fly programming of mapping
  • precisely-timed recording (and playback) of sensor data
  • concurrency
    • triggering and controlling concurrent processes from input
    • using same controller to simultaneously control multiple patches
  • visualizing and debugging controller mapping on-the-fly with the Audicle graphical environment
  • on-the-fly robotics
• will show all the above from scratch, leaving no step out...
• last 1/3 of workshop will be "lab-time" / hands-on tutorials
  • installing ChucK
  • writing a simple program
  • program a controller with ChucK
  • bring your laptops (there may be machines available)

For more information, please see the ChucK website at Princeton.