· Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu ·

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last update: Sun Aug 27 21:29:29 CEST 2000

Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu was born in Carbonia (Sardegna, Italy), but grew up and lives in Cagliari. He studies doublebass at the " G.P. da Palestrina" Conservatory and physics at the local University. He's a proud member of the GULCh (Gruppo Utenti Linux Cagliari, the local Linux User Group).

These pages concern his interests in computer music, doublebass, microtonality, live electronic processing, musical composition and, in general, the interaction between musician (human player or composer) and machines (computers or other electronics) with artistic aims.

Unofficial AIMI Csound tarballs

Here.

Current projects

Software:

At the moment my main interest playing the doublebass as well as writing software is tuning and intonation. So I'm working to a pitch tracking software and its applications:

• Pitchtracking library
• Pitchtrack
• Other experimental software like Chromatictuner and mic2mu.

This software can be downloaded at the MusTec server.

Music learning/Doublebass/software:

• The bionic doublebass player: (NEW!) experiments in computer-aided composition of first-sight technical exercises for the doublebass student.

Other works

Software:

• libwavstream: a C++ library for accessing RIFF/PCM audio files.
• CSFE: a Python/Tk CSound front-end.
• audiozip: (UPDATED!) a tool for zipping audio files a little better (save up to ~40%, without information loss).
• libsmp: a simple symbolic music processing C++ library.
• Ear Trainer: a program that helps the user in improving his/her ability in discerning musical intervals (uses libsmp).

The software has been developed on the Linux/Intel platform (kernel version 2.2.14-5.0 running on a i586 ). C and C++ programs have been compiled with GNU 2.95.1 and Tcl/Tk scripts have been written with version 8.0. Documentation in postscript format has been typeset with Latex 2e and translated with dvips. Zipped files are in ".tgz" format (GNU tar + gzip).

Musical studii:

• Moti involontari dell'animo: a piece for three doublebasses based on the whole tone scales (in midi format).

Computational Physics:

• Gravitational dynamics simulations.
• Molecular dynamics simulations.

Other downloadable files:

• An archive of piano parts from doublebass music in MIDI format, very useful during study sessions.

Email address

Feel free to contact M.U.P. at this address: umbpux@tin.it.

Curriculum vitae in italiano.

Doublebass player directory

Here you can find a list of professional, amateur and student doublebass player with their email addresses.

Favourite links

• Libero Lanzilotta's doublebass page
• Dave Phillips's Linux sound software page

Other links...