Mastodawn

Happy to have a paper, a performance and an 'alt.nime' contribution accepted to NIME (new interfaces for musical express) conference London !

The paper is a collaborative one, about Uzu languages, the draft is here https://codeberg.org/uzu/nime2026/src/branch/main/uzu.pdf , we'll work on it some more so feedback very welcome (although already have a lot of feedback about the typos etc)

The 'alt nime' thingie is this fun paper with @danstowell , about learning the pyramid tala:
https://codeberg.org/Algopaca/pyramid-paper/src/branch/main/pyramid-paper.pdf

The performance will be a collaboration with top drummer Matt Davies, also exploring the pyramid tala.

Anyone else going to nime?
https://nime2026.org/

#nime #nime2026

nime2026/uzu.pdf at main

nime2026

Codeberg.org

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Hannes Güdelhöfer 2d ago

@yaxu Lovely read!
I find it so fascinating that I went on a slightly different path with basil, while implementing the mini notation into it! I actually do convert each pattern into a data struture of (start,end,cycleLength) and then operate on that to combin them together. (All in the efort to be able to on the end generate ternaries and if-chains in GLSL.

I haven't even thought about basil in that lense, and I wonder if it should even fit into the uzu world.

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Hannes Güdelhöfer 2d ago

@yaxu Personally I see it as something at least very closely related, even though with a totally different set of goals (the biggest probably being, visual and not audio related).
(Also if you haven't kept up with my basil development, don't worry, there is like 0 documentation anywhere currently, but it's on ravioli and dente to play with :P, will get to update the documentation to include the mini-notation stuff at some point)

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Alex McLean 2d ago

@reckter If it's interesting to think about it as an uzu, then it's an uzu ;) I think the main outcome of the paper for me though is defining uzus enough to be able to think about the possible related non-uzu languages more clearly in opposition !

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Hannes Güdelhöfer 2d ago

@yaxu Currently I think of it more of a uzu (and specifically mondo /mini-notaion) inspired language.
It is originally hydra based, but mini-notation integration forced a lot of "timiness" in the implementation, and that (I'm guessing here) will at least move it into the direction of the uzu languages.