KEYNOTE: Incompleteness Is a Feature Not a Bug (in Max/MSP/Jitter) - David Zicarelli - ADC22

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KEYNOTE: Incompleteness Is a Feature Not a Bug (in Max/MSP/Jitter) - David Zicarelli - ADC22

If you’ve been in the music technology field for any length of time, you may have encountered the visual programming environment called Max. Maybe you’ve wondered what kind of people work on a computer program that doesn’t really seem to do anything?

In this talk David will share the unlikely story of Max’s transformative impact on both people and organizations, starting with his own life and that of his company Cycling ‘74. 25 years ago he was a reluctant entrepreneur with no real goals other than continuing to work on some cool software. Over time, he became more interested in exploring new ways of working, and realized that Max itself was an inspiration for the culture he was seeking as a software developer. Max's design and philosophy has allowed us to work as a fully remote team since the beginning with little need for planning and hierarchy. David will identify some properties common to both software and organizational architecture — many learned through trial and error — that seem to sustain creative flourishing of both people and teams. Some of these include learning to solve less than 100% of the problem, parameterizing interdependence and personal development, and building trust through innovation instead of rules. Finally, David will discuss some limitations of the Max approach and show how they’ve tried to address them in their most recent work related to code generation and export.

Slides: link will be updated when available.
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David Zicarelli

David Zicarelli is a computer programmer and improvising musician who designs interactive software to support creative expression. He has been working on Max and Max-related projects since the late 1980s. Prior to his Max life he created one of the first graphical voice editors for the Yamaha DX7 and the series of interactive composition programs M, Jam Factory, and Ovaltune for Intelligent Music. In the late 1990s he started Cycling '74, which has further developed Max for the past 20 years.
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Special thanks to the ADC22 Team:

Lina Berzinskas
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper


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