Contents

• Contents
• SAWDUST: Computer music project
  • A brief history of the project
  • Excerpt from the original proposal
• General Notes
  • Starting the Sawdust program
  • Terminating a command
  • Objects
  • Help: display commands understood by Sawdust
• element, elist: define one or more elements
  • The element command: define one element
  • The elist command: define a list of elements
• link: define a link
  • The link command
• Combining elements to form links
• Combining Links: mingle and merge
  • mingle: concatenate a sequence of links
  • merge: interlace the constituent elements of a sequence of links
  • Calculating the duration and frequency of merges and mingles
  • Examples of a merge and a mingle
• Transforming linkIn into linkOut: vary
  • The algorithm for vary
  • The command vary
  • steps or time?
  • freeze?
  • amplitude and sample degrees
  • upper and lower sample bounds
  • statements
• Transforming linkIn into linkOut: turn
  • The problem addressed by turn
  • The turn algorithm
  • turn amplitudes
  • turn samples
  • The command turn
  • name, first link name, and last link name
  • position? and rotate
  • Amplitude range; use default values?
  • turnsum?
  • statements and Wavy?
• Displaying and Removing Objects: show, status, delete, forget
  • The show command
  • The status command
  • The delete command
  • The forget command
• Data Input/Output: save, restore, write, read
  • The save and restore commands
  • The write and read commands
• Creating and Playing samples: play, replay, store
  • The play command
  • The store command
  • The replay command
  • Note for the play and store commands
  • Generating silence with the play and store commands
• Soundfile Manipulation: name, clear
• Setting Variables: exact, seed, vquick, range
• Gary Grossman:
  Instruments, Cybernetics, and Computer Music (1987)
  • Introduction
  • Tools
  • Mechanical Musical Instruments as Tools
  • Computer-Based Music Systems and Tools
  • Music N Systems
  • Sawdust
• Example of a Sawdust Session
• About this document ...