‘Domifare sisidomi’ means ‘live code’ in solresol, which is the first ever ‘constructed language’. That is, it was the first ever language to be intentionally designed. And, as this was a new idea, the creator, Fran\u00e7ois Sudre, apparently felt like new syllables were needed. He used musical tones.<\/p>\n
This last weekend, I played at an algorave in Newcastle with tuba and algorithms. The idea was to use a foot pedal to control things, but (despite working perfectly at home), it was non-responsive when the gig started, so my set included some live coding. Live coding with one hand while holding a tuba is not terribly efficient and it’s impossible to live code and play tuba at the same time . . . unless, playing the tuba is<\/em> the live coding.<\/p>\n And thus, I’ve now specified an ixi lang-like language, domifare sisidomi. It’s a bit sparse, but there’s only so much a player can be expected to remember.<\/p>\n All variables are loops. There are three built in: solfasire, solfasisol and soldosifa (low percussion, high percussion and bassline). These are entered by playing the name of the variable followed by a rhythm or melody. As there is more than one kind low or high percussion instruments, different ones can be specified by playing different pitches.<\/p>\n The full (rough, unimplemented) specification follows:<\/p>\n \/\/ Enter a loop<\/p>\n solfasire [rhythm] \/\/kick & toms larelasi [4 notes = the name] [melody] \/\/ declare a new loop<\/p>\n \/\/ start stop and modify a loop<\/p>\n dolamido [name] -- silence loop lamidore [name] [rhythm] -- add notes to the loop \/\/ every time a loop is changed by playing in new notes, shaking or adding, it gets added to a list of rhythms<\/p>\n \/\/ moving between loops in the list<\/p>\n misisifa \/ fasisimi [optional name] - move to next or previous rhythms \/\/ if no name is given, applies to all playing loops<\/p>\n \/\/ control structures<\/p>\n refamido - die<\/p>\n sifala dofadore [number] [next\/prev\/rand\/randomise\/chance\/octave shift] [optional name] -- repeat the command x times<\/p>\n larefami [number] [next\/prev\/rand\/randomise\/repeat\/octave shift\/die] [optional name] - x in 8 chance of doing the command<\/p>\n \/\/numbers<\/p>\n redodo - 1 ‘Domifare sisidomi’ means ‘live code’ in solresol, which is the first ever ‘constructed language’. That is, it was the first ever language to be intentionally designed. And, as this was a new idea, the creator, Fran\u00e7ois Sudre, apparently felt like new syllables were needed. He used musical tones. This last weekend, I played at an … Continue reading Domifare sisidomi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,366,59],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-creative-pact","tag-domifare","tag-live-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
\nsolfasisol [rhythm] \/\/ higher drums
\nsoldosifa [melody] \/\/ bassline<\/p>\n
\ndomilado [name] -- resume loop
\nmifasol [name] -- raise an octave
\nsolfami [name] -- lower an octave<\/p>\n
\ndosolresi [name] -- randomise loop \/\/ shake in ixilang<\/p>\n
\nmisoldola [optional name] - move to a random rhythm<\/p>\n
\nremimi - 2
\nrefafa - 3
\nresolsol - 4
\nrelala - 5
\nresisi - 6
\nmimido - 7
\nmimire - 8
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