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Basics of Synthesis
Modify step sequencer example from 1/9 to work with patch from 1/3
Listening exercises
- Olivier Messiaen - Jardin du sommeil d'amour; Tres modere, tres tendre from Turangalila-Symphonie
- Oskar Sala - Fanfare and Rede Des Toten Chrisus Vom Weltgebäude Herab, Dass Kein Gott Sei ("Speech of the Dead Christ from the Universe Saying There Is No God")
- Edgar Varése - Poéme Electronique and Ecuatorial
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Struktur I from Kontakte
- Gordon Mumma - Megaton for William Burroughs
- Morton Subotnik - Part 1 from Silver Apples of the Moon
- David Tudor - Toneburst
Discuss reading + listening exercises
Modulation
Spectral Synthesis w/ CNMAT Externals
Automation:
- line
- line~
- snapshot~
- number~
- counter
- fori
Encapsulation
Subpatchers / Bpatchers
Hiding
Abstractions
Arguments:
- #1, #2, etc.
- automatic w/ #0
Poly~
- "voices," "steal," "note" / "midinote," "target" messages
- thispatcher / voice allocation
- adsr~
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Assignment:
Make a polyphonic synthesizer with at least one automatable / modulatable feature, and prepare a 1-minute piece for performance in class.
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Reading:
Thom Holmes - Musical Precedents to Electronic Music: Origins of the Avant-Garde from Electronic and Experimental Music
John Cage - The Future of Music: Credo from Silence
Pierre Schaeffer - Acousmatics
R. Murray Schafer - The Music of the Environment
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