My attempt at creating an accessible modification of the DotCommunist Manifesto
General - Events, notes ·Why I chose the dotCommunistManifesto
The Free Software Movement has theoretical roots that often need to be re-iterated, re-emphasised and what better way than to "re-distribute" in "modified" forms, something that is permissible only within the contours of "FREE INFORMATION"!!
If you read the essay by Eben Moglen, you will notice that the author very deftly captures class analysis, media critique and the principles of Free information, of course, in this essay.
There are many ways that attention can be drawn to this statement by Eben Moglen, which, with all it's radical potential, certainly needs expression in more translations. Hence, I sincerely hope my contribution is one that helps render it more accessible.
Learning to use Sonic-Pi
This was not that difficult, thanks to the years of computer science education at the high-school level which taught me about the importance of syntax. Also, due credit to all my music theory teachers over the years (both offline and online), due to whom I could apply the concepts to this piece of work. Enough gloating about my "skillsets" :P
One thing I found super-helpful was the Sonic-Pi tutorial which comes pre-packaged along with the Application itself. However, certain key pieces of information such as multi-line comments were missing, for which I had to rely on le Olde friend DuckDuckGo.
Next up, I realised that imagining a simple piece of sheet music where the quarter notes are 0.25th of a beat and sub-dividing further for triplets, rests, etc. could help create many a great rhythm. Some of this stuff was not possible for me to either "draw" or "finger-drum" into a traditional DAW grid. So, thanks to the creators of Sonic-Pi for making this work intuitively.
In particular, using the command "pitch-stretch" to manipulate a drum roll sample and then alter the slicing of the stretch algorithm was just one of the features I marvelled at.
There's a lot left to learn, no doubt, but I decided to publish my attempt at this juncture because I plan on using non-free software to record instruments over the loops I create on this program. Let's see how that goes? :)
Click here to access my repo containing the code buffers in Sonic-Pi