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
> patches
2/7 Work day
Week 7
2/13 Final crit
1/23 Introduction to Jitter

Listen to compositions, informal critique and discussion of challenges in assignment
Hypersonic Sound demo

Screening:
  • Transforma + OST - Synken
Discuss reading + screening

What is the Matrix?
QT File Playback
Video I/O
Video Mixing
Scissors + Glue

Amplitude Following:
  • meter~, peakamp~
  • jit.poke~
  Assignment:
Amplitude-Controlled Video Mixer
  Reading:
Judith Zilczer - Light Medleys and Coda from Music for the Eyes: Abstract Painting and Light Art from Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900

Douglas Kahn - Concerning the Line and Synaesthesia as Noise Abatement from Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts

Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand - Camera Lucida: A Three-Dimensional Sonochemical Observatory