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Because every makers/creators/artists have their own universe, it is obvious that, at a particular point of their lives, they want to make the big equation of everything in order to describe it.

Indeed, we (artists), are strange people.
We want to show you everything of us, sometimes nothing, oscillations being a huge part of our work, if we can consider we are working, because I’d prefer to write we are living, instead working.. our life being our work or vice versa.

Building an universe from nothing seems to be hard.
But there are already many parts we just have to stick, to agglomerate, to join.

In my case, I’m just multiple which doesn’t mean mentally ill!

The multiple parts of myself – working together

Art takes its sense with the word technic.
Indeed, even if some doesn’t agree with that, we know art is also relatic to skill.
Britannica Online says Art is “the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others.”

How to separate skill & imagination ?
Indeed, it seems hard, but education, societies, and globally jobs & bosses tend to make you using right & left parts of the brain absolutely not at the same time, which breaks absolutely our bunch of super-powers being inside of us.
My great friend Laurent (Boghossian) agrees 100% with that and it means a lot for me as he’s one of the most accurate to explain that kind of global human theory through his books about management, self-improvement.

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Early lines from my next iPad app

When you are coding, you need visuals, sometimes.
Working on my next 2D sequencer for iPad, I just illustrated some values inside the sequencer engine.

Btw, the final product will be very visual but polished & beautiful

Things go well & fast considering it totally works on my iPad for the gui (not yet shown), the sound engine (at least the global part), the sequences (multi sequences system)

More, you won’t have seen something like that before.
Stay tuned !

Nice review about my protoclidean sequencer

Maxi Mega Thanks & hugs to Peter Kirn & his CDM Blog for the review about the Protoclidean Sequencer I designed for Design the Media.

Here are his words:

Protoclidean We’ve seen Euclidean rhythms many times before, but this takes the notion of these evenly-spaced rhythmic devices to a novel sequencer. Developed by Julien Bayle, aka artist Protofuse, the Max for Live device is also a nice use of JavaScript in Max patching. See it in action in the video above. There are custom display options for added visual feedback, and whereas we’ve seen Euclidean notions in use commonly with percussion, the notion here is melodic gestures

You can read more here.
You can also check the official product page is http://designthemedia.com/theprotoclidean

Here is the video, if you didn’t see it yet.

The latest weekend release…

Available here, I launched the protoclidean on latest saturday night.
I want to thank you all for your enthusiasm.
Launching tools for you is everytime a huge experience.

Synthtopia reviews website already reviewed and featured it.
I really appreciate that and I’m each time more honored.

Someone wrote about the fact it would contain an accent feature.
My euclidean sequencer probably won’t feature it.
I’d prefer to have constant velocity in each channel and a real scaler between each channel.
It is a bit the sequence approach I introduced with the Uncanny Sequencer with the one note per channel mode.

It forces the mind to build the sequencer VERY differently compared to usual sequencers.
There is not a process like “that channel contains different notes” but more “each channel contains one notes offering a micro approach, but the global sequencer contains 8 channels offering a more global approach”

Let’s see what YOU think about that.

The Protoclidean sequencer for Ableton Live

Announcing the next sequencer for Ableton Live. Based on euclidean algorithm, it offers a very nice & flexible way to distribute your notes in a time interval.

It will be available very soon at http://designthemedia.com/theprotoclidean 

I enjoyed to design it because I tried to use the sketch javascript object inside JSUI Max6 object.
This is a very nice way to embed UI + engine inside something that is … very fast.

I hope you’ll like this new unusual sequencer.
As you already know, I don’t like boring usual stuff.

Break the line, go where noone waits for you then become unique!

Maybe the next sequencer…

Those who have followed that lead know already I’m working on (amongst many things) an euclidean sequencer.
As many know, I already worked and currently proposing alternative sequencers for you all bored by straight sequences.

Especially, people seems to like a lot :
- The MatriX
- The Uncanny Sequencer

Here is a little view, totally unfinished view of the jsui object in max6 containing the whole javascript engine inspired by basic algorithms and a research text (The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms ; Godfried Toussaint, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal,  Quebec,  Canada)

Basically, euclidean algorithm solves a classical problem: how to distribute the most evenly possible x object into y slots ?
It involves to divide integers etc etc. (feel free to ask more in comments)

This sequencer engine is a new experiment for me.
It is based on a basic concept:
- the UI is made of classical UI elements + a JSUI providing a visualization but driving the engine too (all in one!)
- the sequences are fired from the JSUI engine into a seq~ object (event-driven sequencer object in Max)
- the seq~ is triggered by a phasor object locked on the Ableton Live transport

Seems efficient enough to be proposed to Design the Media, I mean, to be proposed to you.

I really love sequencers!

Just 3 words to announce I’m already working on another sequencer.

This one will have a new engine architecture based on javascript + seq~ + jsui (for the geeks who only want to know that :p)

breaking right now.
being an artist, being a developer, being me is a bit exhausting sometimes

Have a nice saturday night without fever in the body or not the sickish one :p

My M4_U feelings & report

I wrote “my” because I wanted to relate my feelings, my perception of this very great & unique event made in Leicester and at which I have been invite by Sean Carroll.
My M4_U started a bit late, because I was travelling.

Indeed, I caught my flight around 10h50, landing on Gatwick Airport, then took a train to St Pancras Intl, and then another one to Leicester.

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Let’s make music only now

The MatriX is waiting for you
I just released my latest sequencer for Ableton Live.
The official post is here

I liked to design it and I’ll be happy to improve it too.
I already had some nice feedbacks and I’m very curious of what you’ll design with it
It is a tool for me, but especially for all of us too!

Let me know if you want me to publish one of your nice sequence!

Now, let’s prepare the 2 shows
I’m now totally finishing to prepare my 2 live performances in UK on next friday & saturday.
I’m happy to fly there to meet Cycling 74 CEO & developers. Those gurus are cool & fun & .. GURUS.
I don’t regret too much to have declined the invitation to speak. My keynote wasn’t finished and I didn’t want to rush things & make a bad lecture.

I can announce here I’ll probably try to make it in french (!) in Marseille and after that, I’ll publish my Keynote slideshows.
The subject is : Max6 & Max for Live as the framework alternative to pure C++ programming