Catch Up

Here are some improvs which I recorded over the last few days.

A Street Corner at Midnight
Spatula
Concrete Minimalism
I’m Still Smilin’

Dreams of FRP

Here is a post about how I see programming a game in Functional Reactive Programming. It’s oriented toward people who already get the basics of FRP. It is based on the original paper, rather than the newer AFRP paper. The “circuitry” model doesn’t seem to fit into my head as well as [...]

Wicked / Sostaccato

Today’s jazz improvisation: Wicked
Today’s classical improvisation: Sostaccato

Functional Reactive programming

Wow. I have just read the first two sections of The first paper on functional reactive programming, a method for programming real-time, interactive applications (read: games!) in Haskell. I’m amazed. I can see that this is incredibly powerful. Back to reading.
UPDATE: For those of you without programs that can grok .ps.gz, here [...]

Screenplay

Here’s a sketch of a short screenplay I’d like to write.
Depict a stereotypical “successful businessman” finishing a day’s work (closing a deal or something), driving home in his nice car, sitting in front of his top-notch TV set and beginning to play a video game. Repeat a few times, with some, but not too [...]

Breakdown / Blue Fella

Today’s classical improvisation Breakdown
Today’s jazz improvisation Blue Fella

Unitled

I was procrastinating posting these because I couldn’t think of a title. But that’s stupid. Both improvisations today are united under the title “untitled”, thus “unitled”.

classical
jazz

I’m Back

A few months ago I thought I had lost my laptop’s audio interface, and there was a gig in 4 days. So I hastily ordered a new one and had it fedexed. It arrived the day of the gig (whew). About a day later, I found my old one hiding (essentially in [...]

Four Improvisations

Here are four improvisations for the last four days:

Remember
Sparks
Flow (named after Namaste’s new kitty)
Pavane

Alien Nation

I’m giving a guest lecture on Haskell to the Principles of Programming Languages class at CU tomorrow. That’s pretty exciting.
This is a personal entry, by the way. I found myself censoring my posts for a while to just technical issues in order to build a base of readers. But then this blog [...]