Different Strokes

Participants: Mark Zadel
Marcelo M. Wanderley (supervisor)
Gary Scavone (supervisor)
Screenshot of Different Strokes in action.
Funding: NSERC (Zadel), CIRMMT (Zadel)
License:

Time Period: 2005–2013 (completed)

Overview

Different strokes is part of the project Graphical Interfaces for Musical Performance and Improvisation.

Different Strokes is a software system for performing music on a computer. It aims to allow a performer to create much of his or her performance sequences on-stage instead of relying on prepared control material.

The program resembles a freehand drawing application. The drawn strokes create animated figures whose motion is mapped to sample playback. The musician performs by assembling networks of strokes live, generating audio patterns.

Media

Downloads

The full list of files, including any previous releases, can be found at http://idmil.org/pub/software/different_strokes.

File Description
current git repo (to be moved to idmil's account) updated source code for OSX10.11/Linux
ds-20150217.zip Compiled binary for OSX 10.11 (run .command file)
ds-20070108-r1527.tar.gz Source Code (Mac OSX, old snapshot (2007))
differentstrokes_jan13_2010.dmg Compiled version (Mac OSX / Intel, January 2010)
differentstrokes_jan13_2010_OSX_10.4.dmg Compiled version (Mac OSX 10.4, January 2010)

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