OK.

Good.

Morning and today we talk about
capsule a modular composition and

perform a system developed with
a web audio and web midi A.P.I. And

actually last month I
decided to change the name so

it's actually called Park so
Park is a modular composition and

performance system developed with
web audio and web midi A.P.I..

So with web audio A.P.I. you're able in
part to combine to connect the since and

effects that are built in parts
of the tone dot Jass library and

you're also able to build sense from
the ground up with the basic tone just

Jass sources components and
signals building blocks if you want you

could actually build a completely
modulus incisor from the ground up.

And you also can and
instead of using the Web audio A.P.I.

You could use Web midi I.P.A. to talk to
your favorite midi sense or virtual sense.

Today I'm not going to demonstrate them
with a web media P.I. that most of

what I talk about how the system works
will it will apply to that as well.

So.

Park to combine the conceptual simplicity
of a modular style step sequencer with

the algorithmic flexibility
of a live coding language so

what I mean by that with or
by conceptual simplicity.

When But the fact that if you walk
up to your typical step sequencer

it's fairly easy to grasp how it will
behave based purely on its physical form

and I add to that easy ways to
inject variety in randomness

into the patterns that you create and so.

Park itself as I would not is not
considered a programming languages not

a lot of coding language but perhaps you
consider it live coding adjacent in its

application if not in its actual syntax so
there's a lot more than I could talk

about today but I would just demonstrate
a couple of features of park to

give you a general overview of the kinds
of things you might be able to do with it

first I'll talk about how part deals with
rhythm and then I want to talk about one

of the modifiers those are the parts of
park that allow you to add variety and

flexibility to your sequences.

So basics park a score is
simply a string of text

it starts with an initializing line
then the size of the module and

gives it a name a tempo and
other timing info and

root note in a mode now you have more than
one of these modules in a given score and

each of those can have independent
information both a timing in the.

Mode information.

So following that will be one or
more lanes lanes or basically are your

instruments in the case of all the
demonstration scores I want to give today

I'm using a simple drum sampler that's
just playing some eight o eight samples so

the simplest basically possible
simplest synthesizer we can use.

So rhythm in Park.

The a track in park is consists of two
parts a bracketed portion that contains

a note or notes to describe the pitch or
in this case the samples so that C.H.

stands for close to that and
then a rhythm portion and

in the rhythm portion it's a just
to say sequence of notes and

rests which are commas and
periods respectively.

And these notes and rests are then even
evenly distributed over the length of

the bar so here we have one note so
I'm going to get one.

Pick on the downbeat So if we add
another note as you might expect now

I get it twice as fast I mean half notes
if for I've got chords notes basically.

Sense it divides them evenly any arbitrary
number of notes evenly across the bar and

that means that poly rhythms are easy
to accomplish here I'm playing

three notes on the hat in
the time of five notes.

Of the Rimsha.

Which I hear in the intro.

So set.

Up there you go.

So you're also Build Repeat notes so
here I have

this is how I can generate sixteen
noticed I'm saying take that note and

repeat it at that at the resolution that
I've described I've described resolution

by here I'm saying I have a four
beat bar with a resolution

of four subdivisions that gives you basic
four for sixty eight no resolution bar

you could also repeat patterns
rather than just single notes.

Now you could also get odd timing
by using patterns that are a length

is not divisible by a resolution here
are five notes in the pattern so

you'll hear as the downbeat comes around
that the patterns going to be shifting as

it as it comes around because it had some
leftover notes at the end and end of it.

You also can have in the Notes
section more than one note here so

here I'm just so alternating mice.

Now this may be a little bit less obvious
why you want to this in a drum track but.

In a melody track this is how you pick
the melody by putting more than one one

pitch in there you also have more
than one bar in a pattern and

that could be either in the Notes
section or in the rhythms.

Action or or both so here I have a.

Two bar rhythm of the same
sequence of notes and

here I'm doing the opposite
to bar sequence of notes.

But the using the same rhythm.

So bring to the modifiers there
are four types of modifiers the rest

modifier allows you to add variety in the
rhythm by doing some random ization and

whether or not notes happen the dynamics
fx volume shift applies pitch shifting or

other parameter control and the repeat
modifier allows you to divide the beat in

mult have repeats or multiply the beat in
order to have a link thing kind of repeat.

And then all of these cases
you have multiple random and

nonrandom ways to to modify the beat or
modify your pattern and

since there's a lot to talk about here I'm
going to talk about the simplest one which

is the rest modifier seeing an idea
how these modifiers work so

the modifiers will appear after the track.

And they each have their own bracket style
in the case of the rest modifier the quote

brackets are the upside down and
regular question marks inside that

I have eighty which refers in this case
in the rest modifier to a percent so

that means I'm going to do something
eighty percent and the plus means play

eighty percent So here we have
eighty percent of these no starts

to play as patterns as you can also
think about things the opposite way if

you prefer with the minus and well that
now I have the opposite eighty percent of

the notes are not going to play.

I can combine these by multiplying
alternating eighty percent chance of

playing to eight percent
chance of not playing.

I also that you also the concept
of rests in the modifier So

here I basically have do nothing
followed by forty percent of the to.

I'm playing nos so
every other note was definitely played.

As a forty percent chance of.

I could also you could also have
different values to create patterns of

shifting probabilities.

You also can repeat decisions
that were made in the past so

equal the equal sign so here I say
play No eighty percent of time and

then repeat that whatever that
decision is repeated three times so

if you decide to play No don't play the
next play the next three if you don't play

not don't play the next three so
you get basically.

No rest you can also stack
these modifiers to get.

To get more complex sort
of modifications so

there's a bunch of stuff I didn't talk
about so that but this is that gives you

sort of the idea of how it works.

Also if you are interested in
the first api that is built

using the parts system is is available and
it is your basic

drum machine here and.

You can make basically talk about
are available this is done but

it is just a drum machine
coming later in the month.

Dismiss along with the open
sourcing of the park language and

all that stuff or park library.

And all that stuff will be at that

capsule dated at Rushworth dot com is
that which is in the proceedings here.

I'll post that when that's available
text Zox right now is already available

at Rest of wash dot com slash tech stocks.

Thank you thank you.

Yeah.

Well it's hard to say exactly that for
this that the actual syntax

is but I could say that the concept in
general came from thinking about stuff

that actually stuff I have a personal
experience with but I started to be

interested in seeing others use it which
is actually not a language at all but

with the hardware a physical
sequencers like the make noise

Rene intelligible Metropolis It's cool
stuff the pendulum on on community

these kind of hardware things where
people are taking very simple things but

then making very flexible systems that's
the kind that those are the kind of

inspirations that sort
of sent me in this this

direction.

Well it's just getting finished up now so
so so me.

So it is like I'm doing so
that the system is just I'm just I'm just

working a lot of the bugs out like
the tech stocks available you can start

playing out there now if you like and
the but I just sort of

finish out the squeezing the last sort of
fragility out of it and in in a few weeks

hopefully I'll post that and hopefully
I get more people hammering on it and

shaking out even more bugs.

Well so Park itself so that so techs
Ochs and dismiss these are applications

built with the system but actually this
this system is actually built out of

two projects at once and that one
that I realized were one project and

one was just a regular dike you
know how to making you know.

Sequencers that you could use it whether
it's on the web or otherwise and

you get a grasp graphic widget so
the library itself could be used to build

kind of a bunch of different
stuff including just.

Things that are significant than this
would just like strings of knobs or

a grid pattern those kinds of things and
I'll be releasing I probably this summer

the first game like a collaborative.

Collaborative music making game using
of you know much simpler version

that actually is graphics rather than
get the strings attached and I'm like.

This is.

Yes the way the way of the well
the way it works is right right now it

has a resolution of one bar so the words
and it's partly due to the fact that

since timing there is no real idea of
apostasy track has its own pulse so

I discern that right now I said
OK we have a resolution of a bar.

So you can basically Center the score and

it's just going to execute whatever's
happening like whatever the last thing it

will sound so basic at the resolution of
what one bar and so both tech stocks and

it must do the same way to dimiss is like
the all the features of park and and so

just the drum machine and the same
kind of thing you get at your score

send it away the next bar comes around
it's going to be updating and playing and

playing was going.

To Let.

People.

Hear.

Here.

Yeah yeah definitely things
like that things that are.

Me a big part of the attraction fact
the main attraction of the Web and

Web Media Bias is the Web part of it and
so

the fact that it makes it easy to do stuff
like you're describing that are somehow

either whether they're collaborative
audience participation the you know those

kinds of things to me that's the most
exciting thing about the Web out A.P.I.

is that these possibilities for making
things that either artist can create

together or audiences and and artists
can sort of interact with one another so

definitely.

Whether.

Or yes yes you're right yeah Do they does
work you can you can do basic This summer

the kinds of things that describe sending
me no doubt in many controller that so

you can draw your external sense or
virtual sense so if the work on

the synchronistic synchronization
between those two things but but

separately they work work on.

They very much thank you.

Thank you.