Thomas Royal

Playing samples, very easily, using AVAudioUnit Sampler in Swift

A discussion of the limitations of Swift's current [June 16, 2014] implementation of Audio Units. Deprecated as of July 31, 2014

Some code showing how to play sounds generated programmatically using Swift.

Some code showing how to play sounds in using Apple's new programming language, Swift.

For all those who ever wanted to use Supercollider as an object-oriented language but felt limited by having to recompile your whole class library,here is a more flexible way to do OOP.

Making and calling functions in Supercollider: For Supercollider users who have been burnt before and take their frustrations out on poor, innocent ~global variables.

I bought a Raspberry Pi and made an instrument with it, and it sounds pretty neat.

Where the author talks about getting rid of Wordpress in favor of a snappier static site generator.

Explanation for year gap between writings. Also discusses dissertation and the notion of computers as garbage.

A high level discussion of k-curvature and convexity defect finger tip tracking using openCV, showing advantages and pitfals of each technique.

A discussion of an attempt to find computer vision algorithm the work well and that work well for music performance.

A bonkers rant about Žižek and the way he realtes, somehow, to modern software methodologies.

An informal discussion about my dissertation topic. My dissertation seeks to link the phenemena of performing music using computers with the anthropological and philosophical literature on play.

A discussion of when it means to enjoy a thing based on what it is, focusing on the case of fireworks?