Clojurians Log v2
introduce-yourself
Hi everyone! I started programming in Lisp back in 1979, so I've been around for a while. My thinking is very much shaped by Lisps of various kinds. In 1996 I founded a company to create Igor Engraver, a better alternative to Finale and Sibelius. Igor Engraver was written entirely in Common Lisp. We spent $7.5 million before finally 9/11 ended operations. I'm currently resurrecting that project in the form of a Clojure open-source project – https://ooloi.org – currently in preparation for its open-source release. I've also spent four years at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm studying composition. I've written an https://open.spotify.com/album/0iRdDSD%208a1D6iWfbRG10Ut based on Jean Genet's The Maids. I'm also a https://www.youtube.com/@PeterBengtson (and an http://peterbengtson.com/organ/the-atheist-organist/). My https://delegat.se is as an AWS cloud solutions architect, specialising in secure systems and SOAR technology. I live and work in Stockholm, Sweden. My personal website is http://peterbengtson.com. The Clojure community is known for being open, supportive, and collaborative. I've also heard that it tends to value innovative projects, especially those that showcase Clojure's strengths in areas like concurrency, data processing, and building complex systems. So that's why I'm here - to introduce the https://ooloi.org project, involve myself in interesting Clojure discussions, and perhaps also attract future collaborators for the open-source project. Don't hesitate to drop me a line; I'd love to hear from you.
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Do you need any software engineers?
Hi, Thomas! I/we definitely will need collaborators on this project - it’s large and complex and will absolutely need people working on it, discussing it, extending it in many different ways. The road map is on the site (https://ooloi.org). Drop me a PM.
Hello! Curious to hear your thoughts on MuseScore. I work with a few musicians that used to use both Sibelius and MuseScore, and apparently it has gotten so much better that they prefer it to Sibelius, at least for some of their tasks.
Hi! To tell you the truth, I've never used MuseScore, but I know that it's the go-to for lots of students. From the little I have (yet) seen of it, it does seem like a step in the right direction, though.
Master wielder of parens x notes is the entry, ah, bar, into the higher echelons of this community. So welcome, I say. It's a pleasure to be in even more fine company 😀 re: music notation x synthesis you may enjoy "Making machines that make music" by @srihari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9CGcusOz60 And I would guess you've already come across overtone, as well as Rich Hickey's talk on his synthesizer project.
Thanks for the warm welcome, Adi! Love the link – as a musician I'm of course very much into the musical aspect – I'm amongst other things a fan of qawwali and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The combination with Clojure is irresistible, of course! A fave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5bD5pGhk6E
Well then allow me to point you to this absolutely other-worldly rendition of Chaap Tilak by Abida Parveen and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (Nusrat s'aabs nephew). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SDrjwtfKMk (one of my favourites :)
Ah, I see the then-baby-faced Rahat s'aab is sitting at the rightmost side of the group in the video you shared.
I think Nusrat Ali was the most metal of vocalists out there. He would have had no problem belting out Iron Maiden ... would have probably had a blast doing it too :)
Yes, he's there! I have an old VCR tape, now digitalised, of the entire concert in London - it's simply sublime. It's also subtitled, which is important as the lyrics are everything. In fact, Kinna Sona never fails to bring me to the verge of (happy) tears. And, oh yes - Nusrat Ali could definitely have made a name for himself in metal!
Is the digitalised concert available online anywhere? Really enjoyed that snippet. Look forward to playing with FrankenScore when you go live - spent chunks of time working with Finale 30 or more years ago scoring some books of Irish harp music for my mother, and have recently been having fun kicking the tyres of clojure(script). I'll leave you with our closest approximation to Nusrat - Darach O Cathain https://youtu.be/VZM4npOEIak?si=fIA0MMzjOT0UlMOZ
I think you might find the entire thing on YouTube if you search for it - it took place in the Barbican, so try including the venue in your search string. It's a great concert - the level of engagement from the audience is astounding.
@peter630: Meet @suvratapte. Another lisper/clojurist musician based out of Stockholm!
Is your site limited to certain countries only? I see only "Sorry, you have been blocked" (from Ukraine)
Absolutely no blocks AFAIK. It’s a standard site hosted on Weebly - you may want to check with them.