Gibber

Big Gibber update is live

admin — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:44:18 +0000

The newest version of Gibber is now live, and contains a number of substantial improvements:

new default demo song
new minimal color scheme
a pretty slick freesound integration (if I do say so myself), with an included tutorial
more graphics demos
code fades when you’re not typing if you are using graphics (thanks to livecodelab for the inspiration)
beatboxing drum kit demo is now included (thanks karl)
electronic drum kit is now used by default by the Drums object
boids / flocking audiovisual demo
various bug fixes

Try it out!

Gibber #6

admin — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:21:23 +0000

A ambient performance that mostly consists of sampling and layering the output of Gibber on top of itself repeatedly.

Gibber #5 – Mono x2

admin — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:32:17 +0000

This is a recreation of a performance I did at a bar last week in downtown Santa Barbara. It uses the Gibber monosynth a bunch and has some granulation at the end. It also has a few mistakes, most notably at the start of the trumpet part.

What was especially nice about this performance (as opposed to previous ones) is that I didn’t have to worry about CPU usage at all, thanks to the new custom-written audio backend for Gibber. Even with screen capture software running (which takes quite a bit of CPU) there weren’t any glitches.

Gibber #3

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:26:34 +0000

Here is my latest performance recording; the new Gibber default script is based on tweaks to this performance. It makes extensive use of Karplus-Strong and lots of flanging. It also shows the new verbose constructor syntax for objects, where you can pass any parameter to the constructor by name. There’s still a few objects I have to implement this for…

I’m feeling reasonably confident that this is how the Gibber syntax is going to look, and thus, getting closer to removing the “Beta” label and publicizing Gibber. Please let me know if you have feeedback!

Take #2

admin — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:05:36 +0000

I’ve made some small syntax changes over the past few days. More importantly, I’ve dramatically cut down the CPU Gibber uses by implementing a much smarter sequencing algorithm. After viewing the original Gibber performance, which maxes out the CPU at the end, I decided to take another go at a performance using some of the same ideas but trying to make things move a little quicker.

I also performed a variation of this at a composition forum today at UCSB… the first Gibber public performance.

First stab at a performance

admin — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:07:35 +0000

Here’s my first stab at a Gibber performance. There is a lot of low-frequency content that will not be heard on laptop speakers…

Gibber, arise.

admin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:55:38 +0000

This post starts my official announcement of Gibber, a new browser-based, live coding platform. My goal for Gibber is to create a super simple syntax for musical live coding performances that can also be an educational tool. I think there are some pretty interesting selling points for a browser-based implementation, such as automatic updates and easy networking. The browser provides a lot of affordances and I’m looking forward to exploring interactivity in the context of live coding.

Here’s a screenshot, primarily to provide a small amount of color to this blog entry. Please try out Gibber and be in touch in the forum!