How a Pile of Hacks Becomes an Instrument
summary
A liveable algorithmic instrument is built from a 2013 MacBook Air running Title Cycles and SuperCollider 3 plus a 2005 iBook running Mac OS 9 with SuperCollider 2, patched to boot via Open Firmware, fake CPU ID, disabled sound and a custom fan-speed routine. MIDI goes into a Bela box that translates MIDI→OSC and multicasts to both machines, video uses a mini‑VGA→VGA→HDMI chain into an HDMI capture card, and the rig reliably supports last-night’s performance.
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