Programming: music graphics and architecture

 

Music was just played.

Music was written on pieces of paper.

Midi was born.

We started writing music in electronic sheets. The bulky synthesizers became smaller and smaller and finally they live inside the personal computer.

Computers became fast enough to allow anyone to make music with the help of a digital audio workstation package (DAW) such as Cubase or FL Studio.

Recently a friend of mine studying composition in Holland told me how most of his work is being done with Csounds. Music is entirely written by programming. You define the “instrument” and “the score” itself.

Graphic designers are also becoming more and more fed up with the limits of the packaged software studios and are looking away into new tools that promise a new level of freedom such as Processing. And information architects are using I have no idea which tools to make complex network information visually accessible.

It is interesting to see how architecture is not alone in this  new paradigm in which process is the core moment of design.