[dorkbotpdx-blabber] [Fwd: [dorkbotsf-blabber] Hack Session: Build Ruby Audio APIs]

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Thomas Lockney wrote:
> For those who crossover to the pdx.rb side, this looks interesting. 
> Anyone going to be in the Bay area this week who can go and report back 
> on it? ;~)
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     [dorkbotsf-blabber] Hack Session: Build Ruby Audio APIs
> Date:     Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:06:15 -0800
> From:     Noah Thorp <noah at listenlabs.com>
> To:     dorkbotsf-blabber at music.columbia.edu
> 
> 
> 
> Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
> Hack Session: Build Ruby Audio APIs
> 7:30-9:30PM, Thursday Jan 24th, 2008
> At Internaut Design, 1112 Bryant St. #300 San Francisco
> RSVP at http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/152/calendar/6806947/
> 
> Meet with other Computer Music Technologists and Ruby developers for a 
> hack session and discussion about developing Audio APIs for the Ruby 
> programming language. The focus of this hack session will be on 
> identifying, extending, and using existing libraries in Ruby.
> 
> Ruby has emerged as a concise elegant language with an enthusiastic 
> community and a superb object model well suited for meta-programming and 
> creating domain specific languages (amongst other things). In the last 
> year there has been an explosion of support for Ruby from Microsoft 
> (Silverlight, IronRuby), Apple (RubyCocoa and bundling Ruby and Rails 
> with Leopard) and Sun (JRuby) as well as the promising Rubinius Ruby 
> virtual machine.
> 
> Likely avenues of exploration for this hack session are:
> - Wrapping Csound:
> --- Interesting Csound API info here: 
> http://lac.zkm.de/2006/papers/lac2006_victor_lazzarini.pdf
> 
> - Using the Portaudio Ruby wrapper:
> --- http://samesimilar.textdriven.com/
> --- http://www.portaudio.com (was down last time I checked)
> 
> - Using OSC from Ruby to control audio applications:
> --- An existing ruby OSC library can be found here: 
> http://hans.fugal.net/src/rosc/)
> 
> - SNDs Ruby functionality:
> --- About SND - http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/snd.html
> --- SND & Ruby 
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/grfsnd.html#sndandruby
> 
> - Interfacing with Max/MSP with jRuby and externals(?)
> - Building a Ruby wrapper for VST plugins
> - Your idea here...
> 
> This event will be hosted at Interanut. Bring your laptops for trying 
> things out and show and tell.
> 
> Many thanks to David Lowenfels for hosting this gathering at Internaut: 
> http://internautdesign.com
> 
> Looking forward to hacking with you,
> Noah Thorp
> Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group Organizer
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I won't be able to attend, but I found this on another mailing list over 
the weekend and I will probably join their mailing list.