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
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Week 6
2/6 Getting more from your data
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2/7 Work day
Week 7
2/13 Final crit
1/31 Alternate Interfaces

Review hacked toy project
Listening exercises / screenings
  • "Not Just A Magic Toy," Black Ballet excerpts from Theremin: An Electric Odyssey
  • Michel Waisvisz - Archaic Symphony (Live in Paris '87) from In Tune
  • Iannis Xenakis - Mycenae Alpha
  • Haswell & Hecker - Diffusion Sessions Excerpts
Discuss reading + listening exercises / screenings

Mapping Strategies

Max + Miditron: Input
  In-class Assignment:
Read a potentiometer using the Miditron
  Assignment 1:
Get as much data from a single physical controller as possible, and control an audiovisual munger or synthesis engine with data gathered solely from that single controller.
  Assignment 2:
Rough final project proposal