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As a follow-up to our Thursday discussion and DIY workshop, we will, today, be delving further into the realm of hardware as well as software “hacking”, including several new programming languages that should be of interest to some in the class.

We will carry out one brief assignment with the last one I will show you, SuperCollider, as an initial experience with its syntax and interface with a mind toward knowing enough to peruse its examples for further discovery.

Download SuperCollider itself here.

I am also supplying several example patches to be viewed together in class. You can download these HERE.

Other pertinent links from lecture:

Arduino, open hardware “make” software and programming language for interactive projects
Circuit Bending at “Anti-theory (there are many other sites of interest!)
Tristan Perich, composer (1-bit symphony)
Supercollider code examples repository (!!!!!!!)

Since we were such a small class today, I decided to document for all the people that missed it. It being the glorious world of DIY electronics and Arduino synth kits. Anywho, I’ve got plenty of pictures, so if you want to tell all your friends about that cool things you did in class today, now you have photographic evidence. Enjoy!

DIY is beautiful!

Jasmine

‘Sup.

Here’s my part of the PD patch for our violin-tastic performance. It’s basically a tiny computer-playground. Just start hitting buttons and moving sliders to see what happens. Or you can be a square and follow the performance agenda in my subpatch pd how-to-play. It’s your call.

Valar Dohaeris,

Jasmine

Hey everyone, below you will find a link to a zip of the patches we’d like you to use for our MuseMaze presentation. Each of these patches can work on their own and so long as you connect to the network you should be able to control the main patch during the presentation.

We’re going to assign you a specific patch number to use and have made it so your PD program will not work correctly if you try to use more than two patches at once. Of course you are free to use whichever patch you’d like and step on as many of your fellow classmates’ toes as possible.

We hope you have fun!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7rxxsnq7aeoepmo/clients.zip?dl=1

-Charlie and Bobby

Luigi Russolo’s “Art of Noise” (futurist manifesto, 1913)

Edgard Varése, Poème électronique

George Antheil, Ballet Mécanique (robotic version):

Harry Partch, composers and instrument builder:

Instruments page
Explanation of instrument design and scales
Barstow (hobo story and songs)
Windsong

John Cage, 4′ 33″ (David Tudor, piano)

Alvin Lucier, composer:

I am sitting in a room
Music for Solo Performer (brain waves)
Music on a Long Thin Wire

Max Neuhaus, composer and sound artist:

Listen, info and statement (sound walk from today)
Times Square

Stephen Vitiello, “Winds After Hurricane Floyd”

Judy Dunaway (balloon artist/performer):

Reed improvisation
Piece for tenor balloon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUoLIQR4Rg4

Tristan Perich, composer and visual/mechanical artist:

Microtonal Wall
One-bit symphony

Hi All. Here are the performance dates. Let me know if I have erred in your group listing.

Thursday April 9th:
– Laura, Mihir, and Brendan
– Charles and Bobby Zhou
– Julia, Kevin, Riley, Shane
– Henry, Mimi, and Matthew

Tuesday April 14th:
– Ian and Cameron
– Han and Jasmine
– Ernes, Aarohee, Cassidy, and Matthew
– Kristin and Bella

Partch Instruments page

Music 6421 students might wish to be aware of the “ambilib~” tools for PureData including my own implementation of a 3D panner, available in the “Spatialization” folder on the Desktop in Studio A , in the folder “PD_ambipanner”. This includes a simple audio looper/player and a grid-based ambisonic panner. The panner is an abstraction and contains the ambisonic panning and audio output for B27 internally. See the patch itself for more details.

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Additionally, you might look at the HoaLibrary (High Order Ambisonics Library), available for both PD and Max/MSP here. HOA includes a snazzy interface for both platforms. I have installed the HOA libraries on both platforms so they will work fine in the studios (in PD go to “Help–>PD Browser->hoa.library” to see a tutorial). Note the patch “hoa.2d.decoder~” which uses an ambisonic decoder (see patch below)!

I thought you might be interested in seeing this implementation of a “PD2Live” interface.

http://rickygraham.com/2012/03/01/pd2live-a-digital-music-performance-system/

…with tutorial videos at the bottom.