Of Sound and Vision
Week 1
1/3 Introduction to Max
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Week 2
1/9 Minimalism and the History of Techno
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1/10 Basics of Synthesis
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Week 3
1/16 Sound and Our Environment
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1/17 Aesthetics of Noise
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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
1/9 Minimalism and the History of Techno

Review homework assignment

Listening exercises:
  • Terry Riley - In C
  • Philip Glass - Knee Play 3 from Einstein on the Beach
  • Steve Reich - Come Out and Violin Phase
  • Cyrus - Enforcement
  • Concept 1 - 20:00 from 96:10
  • Thomas Brinkmann - 96:11 from Concept 1 - 96:VR and 0101 from Klick
  • Cyclo - C2 from Cyclo
Discuss reading + listening exercises

Intercommunication
  • patch cords
  • send / receive
  • send~ / receive~
  • value
  • pvar
Variables, Data Storage:
  • $1
  • pack, pak
  • sprintf
Arithmetic:
  • +, -, *, /, !+, !-, !/, %
  • scale / zmap
  • expr
Data Processing:
  • select
  • change
  • togedge
  • if / else
  • route
List Processing:
  • zl
  • vexpr
  • table
Timing:
  • delay / pipe
  • metro
  • phasor~
  • line
  • line~
  In-class Assignment:
808-style step sequencer
  Reading:
Charles Dodge and Thomas Jerse - Classical Theory of Timbre from Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition and Performance

Thom Holmes - Electronic Pioneers: Cahill, Theremin, Martenot, Trautwein and Hammond from Electronic and Experimental Music