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
1/30 History of Circuit-Bending and the Aesthetics of Failure

Informal critique and discussion of video synthesizers

Listening exercises:
  • Yasunao Tone - Part I from Solo for Wounded CD
  • Oval - The Politics of Digital Audio from Systemich
  • Pole - from Streit 2
  • Kit Clayton - Surba from Nek Sanalet
  • Q.R. Ghazala - Rejoice from Threnody to the New Victims of Hiroshima
  • Experimental Audio Research - Untitled from Data Rape
Discuss reading + listening exercises

Handling MIDI with Max:
  • ctlin / ctlout
  • notein /noteout
  • pgmin / pgmout
Miditron setup patch: configuring your Miditron
Max + Miditron: Output
  Assignment:
Use Max + Miditron to control hacked (battery-powered!) household item or children's toy.
  Reading:
Gordon Mumma - Creative Aspects of Live Performance Electronic Music Technology

Peter Manning - Performance Controllers from Electronic and Computer Music

Eduardo Reck Miranda and Marcelo Wanderly - Musical Gestures: Acquisition and Mapping from New Digital Musical Instruments: Control And Interaction Beyond the Keyboard