Stanley Jordan

Music Technologies Stanley Jordan is no stranger to technology. He has been a forward thinker and an innovator on the cutting edge of new approaches to music-making for many years. In the late 70s, he studied serious computer music at Princeton with composers Paul Lansky and J.K. Randall. This was in the pre-MIDI days when you had to be a programmer to make music with computers. Since then he has stayed ahead of the curve by creating his own state-of-the-art tools whenever commercial products could not meet his needs. His applications include software for recording, live performance and musical analysis and education. Stanley always takes a balanced approach, so his use of technology never interferes with the soul of his music. This side of Stanley is virtually unknown and has rarely been discussed in interviews. Now you can learn about some of the untold secrets of this musical innovator. This may give you new ways to think about music and new insights and ideas to enhance your own music-making. "Music Technologies I've used for Performance, Recording and Education" "Music Technologies I've used and Developed" "My MIDI Sequencer" "My Educational Software" The APL Language Stanley Jordan was introduced to the APL programming language in the 1970s at Princeton, where he was studying computer music and he needed a way to manipulate complex data in creative ways in order to control sound synthesis programs. He has continued using this powerful language ever since, and he has authored or co-authored several scholarly papers on the subject. One of these papers, published in the IBM Systems Journal, claims that APL is not only suitable for rapid development of music software but it's also a useful notation for describing the structure of the music itself. Many seasoned programmers have never even heard of APL or if they have, they've heard it was an archaic programming language that was too complex to survive. But when they finally actually see it their jaws drop to the floor, because they had no idea you could do so much so easily! The old rumors existed because APL was originally ahead of its time. But todays powerful computers and parallel computation models have caught up to the language, and it's time to give it a second look. APL has enjoyed continued use by individuals who need to perform complex data analysis and by fortune 500 companies to gain an edge over their competition. Far from obsolete, APL has grown through the years into something whose power simply must be seen to be understood. Find out how Stanley has used APL to increase his productivity as a music programmer. Get an introduction to the different flavors and systems that are available so you can take advantage of this language with unrivaled power whose time has finally come. "APL: Programming Language of the Gods" "APL: The Best-Kept Secret in Programming" "The Power of Parallel Computation with Array Languages" "APL For Music" "Musical Theory and Analysis in APL" "APL for Computer-Assisted Education" SuperApp Stanley Jordan created SuperApp in 1996 because there was nothing like it on the market, and he has continued to use and develop it ever since. Technically, it can be called a "multi-media outliner" but when you understand its many uses you realize that it's really much more. It's based on an elegant model of knowledge representation and application functionality. This makes it useful creating, editing and managing a large variety of different types of information all together in a seamless integration. SuperApp was originally developed for MacOS in the 1990s and then ported to Windows. Sonification Sonification is the use of sound or music to represent non-musical information. Sonification technology has been around a while, but it's still not well-known to the general public. Stanley Jordan has done much work in this area, including sonification of weather, market data, atomic and chemical structures and planetary motions. The ear and the audito