Two Great Tastes in One! [but not David Ralley's * Homepage]
	Welcome to the homepage of the programmer with two lives. One in the US as programmer for LabanWriter at Ohio State University, and the other as the programmer for AudioSculpt at IRCAM My resume lives here.

In the U.S. I work on LabanWriter, a dance notation editor for the macintosh. This freeware allows users to notate dances on the computer using the laban system of movement notation. The application makes heavy use of drag and drop, quicktime for graphic export, carbon help technologies, and has been completely carbonized for OSX. Writings from the US: Applications of genetic algorithms in music On the differences between music and dance. The Submarine song Scott Adam's musings on why why computer geeks are sexy Of course, life isn't all work. I like biking, playing a little volleyball, and traveling. The traveling has led me some interesting places: To see my old roommate Rohan inSri Lanka Up the oregon and washington coasts by bike to the UP for a family reunion. Around Columbus, autumn 2002 From a dance party, november 2002, and another in March, 2003 From a weekend in Chicago, december 2002 Christmas 2002 in Ohio A couple of shots from the Spring of 2003 A visit to San Francisco and the 2003 Apple WWDC The 2003 family reunion A tour of Petaluma homes Photos from visits to Point Reyes Thanksgiving in Oxford, Ohio A few shots of friends taken on a visit to Columbus in April of 2004 My brother Jonathan visits Petaluma A visit from Mom in July of 2004 Pictures of david's new house ! Christmas of 2004 was spent in in Ohio A visit from Tobias, our old exchange student Summer 2005 visits from friends and family members. A trip to Yosemite, Winchester Mystery House and Santa Cruz Pictures from October and November 2006 A trip from Hammond Luisiana to Chicago on the train A week in Israel How to make German Potato Salad A trip through Italy and France Scenes from a move to Bushwick Some poems I've enjoyed It may not always be so, ee cummings My girl, ee cummings Stop all the clocks, W.H. Auden Could have, Wislawa Szymborska On Love, Kahill Gibran And humor from other people Bingo! There goes your tenure, Frank Zappa Useful phases in german Computer Haiku <

In France, I work for IRCAM, the Institute for Research and Coordination or Acoustics and Music, where I develop AudioSculpt, a program that allows composers to manipulate the spectra of sounds through filters, and extension and contraction of time using FFTs. My responsibility is the graphical front end. Version 2 is now available for members of the IRCAM forum. You can't live in france and not go traveling to see what it has to offer. I haven't traveled as much as some, but I've had fun documenting what I have done. Writings from France: About seeing the Tour de France Eek! a mouse Inside the paris hospital system! Dragging my brother around paris After seven months in france Hidden benefits of working at IRCAM that nobody will tell you A primer of the initials used in Georgina Born's "Rationalizing Culture" A report on Medea, the Rolf Liebermann opera Photos from France: A book I wrote for my niece about paris a typical lunch at ircam Photos from adventures between between October 2000 and March 2001 Photos from adventures between between March and June 2001 Corse, of Course. Words and Images from Corsica the Analysis/Synthesis group in August 2001 A visit to Auvers-sur-Oise Pictures from June and July 2001 Pictures from November 2001 to June 2002 Pictures from Albi, Bordeaux and Montmartre Pictures from Paris and Bordeaux