music

Soyeah. This is in part just to knock that picture of Richard Stallman out of the top spot on my page; I am instituting a "no scaring children" policy on my blog and shall sink that picture post-haste. But it's still a cool project, which is why I'm throwing it out there right now.

Anyway. Senior project for college is coming around, and after a couple of abortive attempts (like what the Drupal AppBar guy did between me getting turned down for my Google Summer of Code project and getting back to work on it for school--agh!), I've settled on a project: a remote music collaboration system that, for now, I'm calling WebSession. WebSession is intended to bolt into digital audio workstations like Ableton Live or Adobe Audition and more easily allow musicians to do their thing over the interwebs.

I dig a lot of electronic music, and I'm interested in the guts of the technology used to make it. I was looking around the interwebs a few minutes ago for a copy of the Virtual Studio Technology specification for audio plugins (used by Ableton Live, my digital audio workstation of choice) and stumbled upon something way cool: VST.NET, an implementation of the specification for use with .NET applications. Ihaven't checked out Mono for VSTs on Mac OS X, but I'm curious.