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Naming conventions for files

And a quick note on naming files for projects and assignments (or anything else handed in formally to me):

     ###_assignment_netID_title-text.ext

So for example, handing in assignment 1 with the title "foo bar" as a .wav audio file:

    220_assign1_kme32_foo-bar.wav

Following up from class

Following up from class, here are the download links for PureData (the "extended" version including community additions):

     Mac PPC PD-extended (G5, G4, etc)
     Mac Intel PD-extended (Core duo, COre 2 Duo, Xeon, etc)

     Windows PD-extended

Linux users can usually get PD via standard respositories.

For Ubuntu/Debian:
    apt-get install puredata

Or Ubuntu users can see here for a complete audio bundle install.

For Fedora/Redhat:
    yum install pd

Or, Fedora users can see here for a complete audio bundle install.

Or packages can be downloaded directly:

Project opportunity: music and visual art

From Mark Pearson (mtp32):

I am a student in the art department and am working on a project that is investigating the interconnections between visual art and music, specifically visual representations of music.

The first part of the project involved creating a graphical system for transcribing music and then making a drawing that transcribed a specific piece.

To continue with the project, I would like to find some musicians who would be willing to use my drawing as a score, and who would reinterpret the piece without any knowledge of what song it  actually is or how it originally sounds. The reason for doing this is to see how different the final piece would turn out when being interpreted by musicians who will have specific directions, but not ones that they are familiar with, such as standard notation.

I am attaching a file to this that is a scanned image of the drawing so you can have a better idea of what I'm talking about.  Please e-mail me back if you find this idea interesting in order to discuss more specific ideas and logistics.

Back online with a new look

At long last, digital.music.cornell.edu is back online and looking better than ever.  It turns out there was a hardware problem with the old host but all data seems to have been preserved (thankfully!).

In any case, it's good to have the site back online and ready to use.  Feel free to post to the new Blog, ask questions on the Forums, upload your images, and soon audio and video will be online in addition to a new chat mechanism (should be up within the week).

Courtney Love on copyright

Please read the following article online.  We will discuss some of the issues presented as well as a more contemporary discussion of the impact of technology on the artist.

CL on copyright

And for further reading a more generalized information on the issue, see here:

http://www.negativland.com/intprop.html

Amen drum break

Here is the link I mentioned in lecture, the (hi)story of the "Amen" drum break, and its role and influence in the development of contemporary musical styles.

YouTube 'video infomentary' on the Amen drum break

Text-to-speech

Here is the AT&T text-to -speech generator I mentioned in class:

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php#top

DJ Demo TODAY!!

A note from our own Adam Vana (2:55 section) and the Electronic Music Collective on their demonstration/performance this afternoon (Monday!) in our lecture room, Lincoln B21):

Hey everyone,

Just to remind you guys - tomorrow Alex and I will be doing a performance/demonstration in Lincoln B21 from 1-3 PM

Basically we'll be showing deejaying as a musical art as opposed to the simple playing of records.  I think we'll cover classic turntable methods, newer hybrid digital methods (scratch live), digital mixing methods (traktor), and possibly ableton live, which is completely different.  We'll also be sort of exposing people to as many flavors of electronic dance music as possible, so there will be something for everyone.

Hope to see you there.


-adam

Pioneers / New Frontiers

I want to invite you all to an official Grand Opening for the Cornell Electroacoustic Music Center, a conference weekend beginning tomorrow and ending on Monday the 16th with visiting composers Jean-Claude Risset and Dexter Morrill and performances by David Demsey, Richard Faria, Anna Herforth, Judith Kellock, and members of NY's Elastic Arts Room.  The complete schedule of events is as follows:

Thursday October 12th, 12:30pm, Midday Music, a conference preview performance featuring Judith Kellock and Anna Herforth

Friday October 13th, 1:25pm, Composers' Forum with guest composer Jean-Claude Risset

Saturday October 14th, 2-4pm, Lincoln B21, Music Cognition Symposium hosted by Carol Krumhansl, Topic: "Timbre:  Perception, Technology, and Composition"

Saturday October 14th, 5pm Concert, Barnes Hall
  -- music of guests Jean-Claude Risset and Dexter Morrill, performances by Judith Kellock, Richard Faria, David Demsey, and members of the Elastic Arts Room

Sunday October 15th, 3pm Concert
  -- featuring works by Cornell (Topel, Weaver, Duncan) and Eastman graduate composers

Monday October 16th, 1-3pm, Lincoln B21, Ithaca Electronic Music Collective demonstration and performance with DJBouti and Adam Vana.

Monday October 16th, 4:15pm,  Alfred E. Kahn Seminar Room (via 220 Lincoln Hall), Colloquium, Professor Judith Peraino, "Straightening Out the '80s: Sexuality and Synthpop"

Substractor help page

Following up on class today, here is the link for the Subtractor help page called "Subtractor Basics":

http://digital.music.cornell.edu/subtractorbasics

It can also be found in the "Documentation" section at left, click "music 120" and you will see it listed alongside other documentation pages and links for the course.

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