Smith College. CSC354 Digital Sound and Music Processing.
Class Links - A work in progress....
1) SimpleSynth
Download SimpleSynth Software synthesizer in case you're using MIDI in pd on a Mac
runs native on Intel.
2) Pure Data
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 \"more files\" link:
Make sure you download pd-extended, for the correct operating
system and processor for your machine.
Download Pure Data Computer Music System (PD extended).
The latest release for Mac is 0.42.5-extended, (and includes the extensions).
Main class page
A nice list of extended pd objects
obiwannabe - Web Site of Any Farnell, author of Designing Sound text
Audacity tutorial
hamster midi controller
MIDI music animator http://www.musanim.com/player
RGB Music Player
mp3, wav, etc converters
windows: dbpoweramp - writers, decoders, etc. good quality
Other Pure Data Links:
loadbang, a pure data textbook, free on-line
List of PD objects = very useful!
Pure Data Community site
Karlheinz Essl pd library
PD Patches
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