I'll be testing this too but wanted others to have a look now that I have found it.  JACK for windows (including the preferred GUI...better than the OSX version) seems to be online, compiled and ready to use:

http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html

This version seems to have some significant improvements on OSX as well.  I'll be testing with a potential "upgrade" in mind.

For assignment #3 we will be diving in on PureData, beginning by building a classical feedback delay (echo) system.  We will discuss the details in class but to get you started, please see the attached PD patch which contains an accounting of every PD object you will need to build your own patch.  Enjoy!

If you have not yet download PD to your computer, now would be a good time...

Pianist Kathleen Supove presents a concert of explosive works for piano and electronics with video (and with Ms. Supove, there is always a potential for some very interesting theater!).  Supove is artist-in-residence at NYC's Flea Theater where she is also a curator presenting the work of other emerging artists including violinist Ritsu Katsumata (mentioned on these page before).  She performs regularly as a soloist as well with Patrick Grant Group, the band Dr. Nerve, and the duo twisted tutu with composer/performer Eve Belgarian.

It promises to be an exciting evening. I hope to see you all there!

Hey gang,

I am looking for anyone who owns a Creative Extigy soundcard or other Dolby DTS decoder to lend me their rig for a performance.  Please email me directly at kme32@cornell.edu if you have an Extigy to offer or other Dolby decoding hardware

A note from Professor John Scott, Television-Radio Department, Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College:

I am teaching courses with advanced students who are completing substantial video projects this semester.  I am seeking ways to contact interested musicians or sound-designers who may benefit from interacting with my students as they begin to consider working with a composer or sound-designer for their soundtrack.

I have a course reserved for seniors who are doing final projects in a workshop environment.  There are 2 documentaries and 5 fictional narratives being produced.  One documentary is likely to be quite long (20-30 minutes) and has been shooting for over a year now.  One narrative script looks like it will be in the 15-20 minute range. Everything else is in the 5 to 12 minute range.

I also have four documentaries being shot in an advanced documentary class and four fictional narratives being shot in an intermediate fiction class.  Each of these will likely be in the 5 to 12 minute range.

Topics range from dogsledding, a maverick space capsule inventor, sex education in schools on the doc side to a crime scene drama, teen runaway drama and multiple comedies on the fiction side.

All of the projects need to be screened at a big auditorium here on IC campus on either Friday, Saturday or Sunday May 4,5 or 6.

If you are interested in scoring or sound design please contact me (jdscott@ithaca.edu) with some info about your expertise and preferences and I will put the info into the hands of relevant students and then let you all figure it out from there, (no obligation for either side.)

A few people have have asked about assignment hand in, primarily two questions:

1. When are the assignments actually due?

All assignments are due by class time (2:55) on the day they are to be handed in.

2. How/Where should I hand in my assignment?

Hand it in on the network drive (linked on the Desktops as "music220").  You will see a folder "assignments -- > Assignment_1".  You will notice some assignments have already been handed in here.

(P.S.  Two of you placed your assignments in to the "projects" folder.  This folder is for the three larger semester projects and should not be used for these assignments.)

Thursday, February 8, 7:00, Willard Straight Hall

Former Ithaca resident and recipient of a Cornell Council for the Arts Emerging Artist award, Ritsu Katsumata is a classically trained violinist who has been performing since she was ten. She has played acoustic violin in Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Academy of Music, and the Smithsonian Institution. She composed and performed the scores for the two films screening tonight: Yasin (Betty Lee Kim, 13 mins, www.yasinmovie.com), a narrative short about a young boy in California whose Jordanian-born father is arrested and accused of being a terrorist, and Heroes (Lynn Estomin, 22 mins), a documentary short featuring the mother of a fallen soldier and an Iraq War Veteran who is speaking out against the War. Ritsu will talk about her work on these films and then perform a 45 minute set of music. Watch clips of Ritsu on YouTube from a recent show at NYC's Flea Theatre -- the program, curated by Kathleen Supove, included Joshua Fried, performing on old shoe and a steering wheel, as well as Nick Didkovsky composing computer music with audience participation:

Performance on You Tube.

color, 1 hour 30 minutes

Tomorrow (2/8/07) we will meet in the electroacoustic studios.  Come to Lincoln B27 and we will have a large groups meeting, breaking into smaller groups after.  See you all tomorrow.

You will note a few site updates, things I hope will begin to make this space more useful and connective.  First, I have added user avatars (note the picture at right).  These will be added to posts and comments automatically.  If you wish to display an avatar, simply add an image to your account profile.  Click above (or at left) on "account" and then "edit" and upload a picture.  The ideal use is in putting a face to a name, etc, and so I would discourage image "icons" or cartoons, etc...unless you really look like Betty Boop...If you are concerned about privacy, this is completely optional.

Second, note the "tag cloud" below (bottom of each page).  You have seen these elsewhere to be sure, but I am growing to like these dynamic site organization methods, the "semantic web", as they say.  It is, of course, nice to be able to access pages hierarchically as normal, but it's also nice to be able to cut across that structure to places of importance.  If you have not seen these clouds before, they organize content by tags (those you add to a post or image or audio or video ,etc), showing the most used/tagged in successively larger text.

Finally (and more directly pertinent to class), I've added two new links in the "free software" section, the first a link to PD-extended for various operating systems, and the second to something called JACK which we will get to very soon.

See you all in lecture.

P.S.  One more update in process, a live chat area (joining a chat pops up a new window).  Right now the system has no invite mechanism, but you can monitor portions of the chat from the main page.  Feel free to chime in.

It seems there was an error in the printed syllabus regarding my office hours.  As stated online and on my door (B27 and 108), my office hours are:

Thursday 10 – 12
Fri. 11 – 1

Others are always available by appointment.  And of course, Eric is also available should you prefer or should you want additional help.