Smith College. CSC354 Digital Sound and Music Processing.
Class Links - A work in progress....
Main class page
hamster midi controller
MIDI music animator http://www.musanim.com/player
mp3, wav, etc converters
windows: dbpoweramp - writers, decoders, etc. good quality
Pure Data
Karlheinz Essl pd library
Pure Data Community site
Download pure data from sourceforge, and follow the
instructions below to get the correct version:
SourceForge.net
- Type pure data in the search form
- Click on The first result: Pure Data Computer Music System
- On the next page, click on the big green rectangle:
Download Pure Data Computer Music System
- On the download page, click on Pd-extended
Release 0.38.4
- Finally, choose either
- Pd-0.38.4-extended.dmg for mac
- Pd-0.38.4-extended.exe for pc
- Pd-0.38.4-extended-linux-i386.tar.bz2 for linux
Make sure to get the 0.38.4 version, and it is the extended release
pd patches
Keykit Links
Tim Thompson's home page (inventor of keykit)
appoggiatura definition and sound example
Download Keykit
Class Examples
Csound links
Windows executable version of Csound we are using (Winsound)
Zipped windows executable version of Csound we are using
Toots tutorial
Local copy of toots examples, zipped
Csound manual (Boothe)
Alternative Csound Manual (Conder)
CSound
Cecelia, front end to Csound
toot08b.sco
toot08b.orc
traffic.wav
toot09b.sco
toot09b.orc
combtraffic.sco
combtraffic.orc
combtraffic2.sco uses statements and macros
Granular Synthesis Links
traffic.wav
1301.sco
1301.orc
sine220.aif
1302.sco
1302.orc
seashore.aif
Amsterdam Catalog of Csound Computer Instruments v1.2
Introduction
More details and a Csound granular "Orchestra" specification (by Charles Baker)
Sine Wave as Granular Waveform
External Soundfile as Source for Granular Waveforms
Short waveforms suitable for
wavetables
Cartoon sound effects
Other free software
RTcmix. Also check Veronica's information page
Sites Supporting Software
Csound Magazine
Alternative Csound Manual
Algorithmic Composition
McRorie, wears sensors, keyboards, generates midi events for his synths
Evolving electroacousitc music:
the application of geneatic algorithms to time-domain waveforms
Grammar Based Musical Composition
Gary Nelson's work with fractals
Unusual Music, Fractals and Prime Numbers
MusiNums
Fractal Music Lab
Probability
Mozart's Musikalisches W|rfelspiel
(i.e. Mozart with Dice)
Neural Networks
paper on one example
Mathematics behind the Algorithms
Factals - Topics in Math
History of Electronic Music
History 1
Institutions
Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Music Group in the School of Computer Science
Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
Mills College Center for Contemporary Music
The MIT Media Lab Brain Opera
See more on a list at Brown here
Music Theory
J.S. Bach's Ornament Table
Master List of all kinds of Music Links
MIDI
MIDI voices, including drums (channel 10)
Journals
Leonardo Music Journal
Computer Music Journal (also in Josten library)
Journal of New Music Research
Books
The Computer Music Tutorial, Curtis Roads ed.
Readings in Computer Generated Music
Sound clips
Government Sponsored Research
ircam: Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musiqe
Community
Electronic Music Foundation
International Computer Music Association
SEAMUS: Society for Electro-Acoustic Music
IEEE CS Technical Committee on Computer Generated Music
Corporate Research
IBM Computer Music Center
Microsoft speech synthesis for music