Hello!
Please download the following materials for our 9/21 lab.
Thank you!
PD extended, installation
To install PD(-extended) on your Mac, PC, or Linux system please visit:
– http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended
Download the installer appropriate to your operating system and architecture (I don’t recommend the “Alpha” release for prime-time usage, but it you are curious about recent developments in the interface (significant) and function of PD, you are welcome to download that also).
For some Mac users, you may need to install “X11”, the venerable Unix graphics system on which some of PD’s functionality rests. You can download that, available now as “XQuartz” from here.
Here, too, is mPD, a mobile version for Android, for those interested:
– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mpd
In addition to PD’s built-in Help system, please see the following sites for more help and shared patches.
– PD Forum and Patch Repo – Repository for patches, tutorials, and discussion related to PD.
– PD FLOSS Manuals – including concepts, working patches, and installation/setup help
– Programming Electronic Music in PD (“loadbang”) – Johannes Kreidler’s book
Listening from today
Erik Satie: Vexations, score and music (excerpt).
Terry Riley: In C (1964)
Original recording (instrumental ensemble)
Another version (chamber ensemble)
Musical score here.
Steve Reich: Come Out
Brian Eno: Music For Airports (Ambient 1)
Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room
(Optional) In Bb (YouTube crowdsourced video/music project)
Early electronic music, links
Here are some materials related to this morning’s lecture on various currents in early electronic music:
The Futurists
Marinetti’s Futurust Manefesto (1909), the philosophical foundations of Futurism
Russolo’s Intonarumori (noise instruments) in an exhibition and in performance.
Mechanical and early electronic instruments
Thaddeus Cahill’s Telharmonium (1906)
George Antheil’s Ballet Mecanique (1924) — also a version at the National Gallery showing instruments.
The Theremin, played by Clara Rockmore (virtuosi)
Musique concrète
Pierre Schaeffer – “Etude aux Chemins de Fer”
Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry’s Symphony for a Man Alone, Mvt. 1: Prossopopeé I
Elektronische Musik
Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Studie I (1953)
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge (1955/1956)
Varese and the Phillips Pavilion
Details on the building itself, images and descriptions of the work
Some further background, images, and virtual video
Poème électronique (1958), with video “overlay”
Marc Treib’s Space Calculated in Seconds, a book on the piece
Deatils on the “Vitual Electronic Poem Project“, a contemporary realization
Listening: Wendy Carlos
Thanks, all, for a nice day of sharing and discussion.
As a fun post-project “assignment”, please listen to the music from A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick), created using Moog Synthesizers. These pieces, like all of Carlos’s work, were meticulously constructed, “orchestrated”, and realized, sometimes note by note.
Realization of Beethoven’s 9th symphony (Movement #4):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MCnnfXPSHw
Realization of Henry Purcell’s Music for the funeral of Queen Mary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-mDTdeKR8
–> Note that this video presents the version presented in the film’s introduction. It’s slightly “NSFW” and is not intended to endorse the film, just to present the music.
And the best for last, an excerpt from Timesteps.
Timesteps (original piece):
http://vimeo.com/46998648
If you dig around for others, be careful, there are many “imposter” versions of these and similar pieces realized from a MIDI file with a low-quality synthesizer “presets”!
Lecture 1: Digital audio fundamentals
Following up on today’s lecture (1/28/13), here are some links of potential interest:
- Audacity sound file editor download and information
- Some digital audio basics (a cursory overview, rooted in Audacity), a refresher/reminder
- Recording Technology History from AES (Audio Engineering Society), a timeline
- The History of Recording Technology (narrative and technological overview)
- World’s first sound recording by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville at First Sounds
- C.E. Shannon’s 1948 paper “A Mathematical Theory of Technology”: describing first digital techniques