Of Sound and Vision

Week 1
1/3 Introduction to Max
> patches | reading | addendum
Week 2
1/9 Minimalism and the History of Techno
> patches | reading
1/10 Basics of Synthesis
> patches | reading
Week 3
1/16 Sound and Our Environment
> patches | reading
1/17 Aesthetics of Noise
> patches | reading | addendum
Week 4
1/23 Introduction to Jitter
> patches | reading | addendum
1/24 History of Visual Music, "Synaesthesia in Art"
> patches | reading | addendum
Week 5
1/30 History of Circuit-Bending and the Aesthetics of Failure
> patches | reading | addendum
1/31 Alternate Interfaces
> patches
Week 6
2/6 Getting more from your data
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2/7 Work day
Week 7
2/13 Final crit
1/17 Aesthetics of Noise

Discuss reading + listening exercises

Listening exercises:
  • K.R.T. Wasitodipuro - Gending Tejanata from Javanese Court Gamelan from the Pura Paku Alaman, Jogyakarta
  • Luigi Russolo - Veglio di una Citta
  • Throbbing Gristle - We Hate You Little Girls (ver. 1) from IRC0: Best Of Volume I
  • Whitehouse - On Top from Birthdeath Experience
  • Einstürzende Neubauten - Sehnsucht (Nie Mehr) from 2 x 4
  • Aube - Segmental Touch from Deglaze
  • Merzbow - Minazo at the Heart of Crab Nebula Pt. 1 from Minazo Vol. 2
  • Merzbow + Russell Haswell - Fend off your miserable grief from Satanstornade
  • Damion Romero - A from Twins
  • Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Tricks + Techniques (continued):
  • object prototypes
  • autopattr
Phasor-Driven Looper

Filters / Modifiers:
  • filtergraph
  • biquad~ / smooth-biquad~
  • degrade~
  • downsamp~
  • overdrive~
  • freqshift~
3rd Party Externals:
  • maxobjects.com
  • cnmat
  • fiddle~ / bonk~
  • tristan jehan
  • nathan wolek: gverb~, granular toolkit
  • ejies
  • wacom
  • aka
  • tap tools
  • wes smith
  • freeverb~
  • gigaverb~
VST Plugins
  Assignment:
Create an automatable (polyphonic?) buffer munger with disk recording function, and output a 3-5 minute composition in real time using the sound from yesterday's assignment, bring to class in the form of an audio CD.
  Reading:
Jonathan Crary - Subjective Vision and the Seperation of the Senses from Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

Thomas Zummer - Projection and Dis/embodiment: Genealogies of the Virtual from Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art, 1964-1977

What is a Matrix? from the Jitter Tutorials