CSC354: Spring, 2013, Syllabus
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Monday and Wednesday, 1:10-2:30, Ford Hall 345

Class Date	Lecture Topics	Labs, HW, and Reading
27-Jan, Monday	Overview, history, digital audio, listening, Pure Data Example Pauline Oliveros The ILLIAC I and Lejaren Hiller Digital Audio Ambient pure data composition Sound Synthesis	Hernandez PD Movie Hello World Tutorial 1 Hernandez PURE DATA: Lesson 02, Help! Overtones, harmonics and Additive synthesis Download pure data extended version 0.43.4 from puredata.info site: Download Pd-extended 0.43.4 Lab1 Intro to PD, Readings from Miller Puckette's book Preface - What are we doing? Sinusoids, amplitude and frequency (all subsections) Other Readings: History of Electronic Music History of Electronic and Computer Music A Chronology / History of Electronic and Computer Music and Related Events 1906 - 2012 Digital Sound tutorials by Julia Edwards Kreidler, sec 2.1 oscillation, beginning PD Frequency of notes of scale time and frequency domain (William Robinson)
30-Jan, Wednesday		Hw1 assigned (due Mon 2/4) Computer Music History Movies Reading: Hernandez pd lesson 3 Basic Math & Bang Order Hernandez pd lesson 04 Metro Harmonics, metro and tabplay demo NOTE: On the PC, go to Programs => Utilities and find: core ftp lite to use sftp to upload files to your beowulf or oher account. Note: Make sure to choose secure sftp (not straight ftp) in the SiteManager dialog box. Click here to see sftp choice picture. putty to use a secure shell to log into beowulf with you 354-xx account On the Mac, you can just use sftp and ssh from the command line of a terminal window.
4-Feb Monday	Listening to Hw1 exercises. Additive synthesis, saving files, amplitude control. Focus on icon diagrams of synthesis	Program Control in PD, Kreidler, sec 2.2 Assignment>Read these chapters. Read pages 44-47, I'm the operator with the Pocket Calculator - Some Reflections on Pure Data
6-Feb, Wednesday		Hw2 assigned (due 2/11) Audio: Chapter 3, section 3.1 of Kreidler Lesson19, Basic Amplitude Modulation PURE DATA: 18 Simple Oscillators with [osc~] PURE DATA: 20 Smoothing Amplitude
11-Feb, Monday	Hw2 listening	Discuss patches
13-Feb, Wednesday	Discuss reading assignments. More Listening to Hw2 wavetable synthesis reading and recording files Peskumskut Noisescapades, Turners Falls, MA Peskeomskut Noisecapades Inaugural with stills and info the second annual Peskeomskut Noisecapades Peskeomskut Noisecapades 2013 - YouTube Kreidler and kinect kinect studies - by Johannes Kreidler kinect studies #2 - by Johannes Kreidler Hernandez tutorial Lesson 17 Beginning Audio with [readsf~] Hernandez Tutorial Lesson 22, Advanced Audio with [tabread4~] Hernandez Tutorial Lesson31, Writing and Recording Audio	Homework this week: hw3 - tables, and files Go over everything so far. More pd, including start of wavetable synthesis fileToTable.pd quack.aiff combExample.pd panner.pd A08.beating.pd A09.frequency.mod.pd B01.wavetables.pd B02.two-wavetables.pd especially G01.delay.pd G02.delay.loop.pd G07.shaker.pd G08.reverb.pd Johannes Kreidler's web site Watch Hernandez Videos. Read Chapter 3, section 3.4 of Kreidler Look at pd help examples. Look at posted code. for fun, The Mellotron Mellatron Demo Video Max Pinder of Moody Blues. History of Moody Blues includes Mellotron Max Pinder plays Mellotron samples Performance video of Nights in White Satin showing Mellotron being played (1970) Mellotron for ipod/iphone Max Pinder of the Moody Blues playing mellotron for documentary (click link on left after reaching this page) Make your own Mellotron Mellotron Tape change King Crimson 'Epitaph' uses Mellotron (Click on link at left after reaching this page Max Pinder of the Moody Blues playing mellotron for documentary (click link on left after reaching this page) Make your own Mellotron Mellotron Tape change King Crimson 'Epitaph' uses Mellotron (Click on link at left after reaching this page)
18-Feb, Monday	Puckette Wavetables and samplers A06.frequency.pd A07.fusion.pd A08.slightly detuned (beating).pd A09.frequency modulation.pd B01.wavetables.pd B07.sampler.pd B08.samplerAndRecording.pd C08.analog.sequencer.pd fileToTable.pd timbrePanner.pd quack.aiff	Timbre Visualization of Timbre pd Help menu, Audio examples A04.line2.pd A05.output.subpatch.pd A06.frequency.pd A07.fusion.pd timbrePanner.pd Kreidler paper Neural interview
20-Feb, Wednesday	More Pure Data Weighted probabilities and Markov chains pd=>Help=>Browser=>control.examples=> 15.array.pd 18.conditional.pd 19.random.pd 20.weighted-random.pd 21.markov-chain.pd 22.random-walk.pd WeightedRandomInClass.pd	- Hw4 will be assigned soon (due 3/4) Matteo Milani's interview of James A. Moorer, an internationally-known figure in digital audio and computer music. (Between 1977 and 1979, he was a researcher and the Scientific Advisor to IRCAM in Paris. In the mid-seventies he was Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1975. Between 1980 and 1987, while Vice-President of Research and Development at Lucasfilm's The Droid Works, he designed the Audio Signal Processor (later renamed SoundDroid).) The interview is available here listening to granular sounds: grain.wav 07_01_1.wav grainex.wav Curtis Roads on VBS.tv Pure Data Another Pure Data Tutorial by Gary P. Scavone at McGill
25-Feb, Monday	waveTable Patches Pure PD filters Definition of Simple Low-pass Filter PD basic resonant filters in Pd	fun email Supplemental Handouts
27-Feb, Wednesday	Listening to computer music Kreidler's section 3.4 patches	Hw4, due Monday March 4 Another Pure Data Tutorial by Gary P. Scavone at McGill contains list of all pd objects, categorized. waveTable Patches, Kreidler3.4 Pure Data Info: User's site 0) Scales Tutorial 0.5) Equal Temperament system of tuning 1) Intervals, scales, circles of fifths 2) Chords 3) Jazz Chords 4) Olivier Messiaen and the Art of Organ registration 5) Prime Melodies (and chords) 6) The creation of musical scales from a mathematic and acoustic point of view 7) Chord/Scale relationships
4-Mar, Monday	Listen to hw4 Algorithmic Composition	listening to hw4
6-Mar, Wednesday	Hw5 assigned (due 3/11) Listening to more hw4	Controlling sound: Kreidler 3.5 and 3.6 Rasmus Berlin's tutorial pd project with lots of ideas Automata and their application to composition. Includes many subpatches for brass instruments, cymbals, etc. You do not need the java component of this, which just reads midi files. List of extended pd objects - great! Roads: algorithms Here is the chua pitch skip patch we worked on in class: chuaPluck.pd
11, 13-Mar, Monday, Wednesday	Discussing Hw5 Examples from Rasmus Berlin's tutorial pd project with lots of ideas Automata and their application to composition. Includes many subpatches for brass instruments, cymbals, etc. March11.zip bassline.pd chaos.pd chaosSequencing.ps grammar.pd harmonize.pd single binary state i_brass.pd i_ding.pd i_flute.pd i_r-sub-synth.pd melodyAutomaton.pd (finite automaton with counter) panner.pd osc18.pd uses qlist.txt and qlist16384.txt qlist.txt qlist16384.txt qlistExample.pd qlists in pd scales and intervals Review Markov Processes, finite automata, and state-based algorithms for music generation. Grammars, Automata, Chaos	Roads Chapter 19 qlistExample.pd Just for information and ideas: ScalesAndIntervals.doc Piano Keyboard pic
13-Mar, Wednesday	algorithmic composition	Article: Algorithmic Composition: Computational Thinking in Music by Michael Edwards Comes with videos - great up-to-date article Mozart's Musikalisches W\|rfelspiel (i.e. Mozart with Dice) AlgorithmicCompositionAsaModelOfCreativity by BRUCE L. JACOB Practical Synthetic Sound Design - by Andy Farnell List of pd filters
18-Mar, Monday	Spring Break!
20-Mar, Wednesday	Spring Break!
25-Mar, Monday	Any remaining hw5. Finite Automata Chaos equation Formal Grammars Grammatical Models of Music March11.zip, implementations of these algorithms in pd Cellular Automata Links from just before break: Article: Algorithmic Composition: Computational Thinking in Music by Michael Edwards Comes with videos - great up-to-date article Live recording: Ensemble LINEA - Iannis Xenakis - Eonta Mozart's Musikalisches W\|rfelspiel (i.e. Mozart with Dice) AlgorithmicCompositionAsaModelOfCreativity by BRUCE L. JACOB Practical Synthetic Sound Design - by Andy Farnell Music-DSP Source Code Archive List of pd filters	Links: Introduction to Chaos Theory Cellular Automata: 1-dim mlife.pd mlifeWithDuck.pd mlife.c implementation of mlife.pd wiki cellular automata The 256 rules
27-Mar, Wednesday	More algorithms, cycle and gate (pd) gate, cycle, key: new pd objects Networking, Open Sound Control	Hw6 assigned, due Monday April 1 Lab6 uses algorithms in context of networks, OSC Open Sound Control (OSC) pdf paper Hernandez on open sound control, part 1 Hernandez on open sound control, part 2 Hernandez on open sound control, part 3
1-April, Monday	Listen to Hw6, discuss algorithm uses, Listen to Beginnings	Steve Reich, Brian Eno, scales Steve Reich A Film on Brian Eno (14.24) Brian Eno Interview Just for information and ideas: Blues scales, etc that you can use Scales Tutorial And once you know the notes, Mapping notes to midi values
3-Apr, Wednesday	More listening to Hw6 Finish A Film on Brian Eno (start at 14.24) Hand out Belkin article and Cybernetic Composer	Hw7 due Monday April 8
8-Apr, Monday	pd organization Composition for Computer Scientists	phase vocoders, etc.: Wiki Robotic Voice effects From pd help: phaseVocoder.tar. After downloading just type: tar xvf phaseVocoder.tar Youtube video showing hierarchical orgnized pd patch for generative music. Belkin article - A Practical Guide to Musical Composition pdf version of Belkin article To listen to works referred to in Belkin article: First Composers web site with midi Second Composers web site with midi Alan Belkin, composer Worklist On-line music dictionary Discuss Belkin, hand out Cybernetic Composer Chords - What they are Cybernetic Composer - Ames and Domino 1991 Music and AI paper Millen - Cellular automata Bill Alves computer music videos supplemental materials: Cantible: A Rule-Based System for Composing Melody - Thomas et al. 1989
10-Apr, Wednesday	EMI - Experiments in Musical Intelligence	basslineRhythm.pd adsr.pd i_r-sub-synth.pd cybCompPage193Works.pd i_brass.pd Hw8 assigned, due Monday April 15. lemur interactive midi videos
15-Apr, Monday	Listen to HW8. Discussion of final project Music Composition Ideas gate, cycle, key: new pd objects ...and mlife	Final Project End of Semester Timeline pd patches Kinect and pd youtube video kinect, arduino, pd tuio + osc means kinect to pd and other software Hernandez on video and GEM, part 1 Hernandez on video and GEM, part 2 David Cope article handed out. Thomas Charveria: Interactive Installation/Tintin Flavors Band - Fry Serialism
17-Apr, Wednesday	Pd patches, other topics	bonkExample.zip phaseVocoder.zip hw9 assigned (= 3 minute draft of final composition) due Wed. 24-Apr. Firm We will play these straight through. Using python with pd testpy.py Put this in the same directory as the following python patch pythontester.pd This is the patch. Make sure you are using pd extended A Language for Interactive Audio Applications, by Roger Dannenberg.
22-Apr, Monday	End of smester timeline Final Project due April 29 Firm.	Genetic Algorithms and Generative Music Paper on Genetic Algorithms: Biles GenJam Genjam video
24-Apr, Wednesday	Computer Music	lemur's Eric Singer, gesture instruments lemurbots.org Pat Metheney's Orchestrion video of Max Mathews computer music with dance Pauline Oliveros, a maverick in the field of electronic music Todd Winkler Installation - Glint (Brown Univ) Computer Music at Carnegie Mellon and a video of a pioneering computer accomaniment system with Roger Dannenberg Dannenberg/CMU examples ircam - Paris computer music research, funded by French Government International Computer Music Association Article: Algorithmic Composition: Computational Thinking in Music by Michael Edwards Andy Farnell: OSC and Sound Effects for Games Paper: Creating Footstep Sounds for Games using pd E.M.I. David Cope's web site Cope's power-point presentation on EMI EMI on NPR Playing The Game from the book Virtual Music EMI is now called Emily Howell and has a CD out! for sale on Amazon EMI examples Beethoven EMI example (mp3) Chopin Mazurka EMI example (mp3)
29-Apr, Monday	Student Presentations	Presentation Order:
1-May, Wednesday the last day. Lunch recital at noon	Tesla Coils as Oscillators: Info from alum Jennifer Trow: someone, at some point, realized that the noise put out by a Tesla coil is actually a modified square wave remniscient of analog synthesizers, and once they figured out how to control the frequency it was only a matter of time until someone hooked one up to a MIDI rig so he could use his keyboard to play a musical Tesla coil. And thus was Arc Attack born: www.arcattack.com Videos The Star Wars Imperial March played on two Tesla coils ArcAttack! Musical Tesla Coils	"student recital" with CS Dept invited. 12-1 in Ford Hall 345 Today. Stay tuned.