See the attachment. This is stage1 of a larger project to build a Pd-extended master patch. I'm hoping to just build a script that would automatically generate a master patch from libraries loaded at start up...that's the end goal, anyway.

Following up on the "expr" expression object, you can find documentation here.

General docs for PD are here and there are several other resources here.

Since we've been talking about stereo signals and wave polarity in class, I thought I'd share some related topics (if you haven't heard about them already).

Most of us know of noise canceling headphones as a way to block out noise, but the folks at ChatterBlocker.com are taking a different approach. ChatterBlocker "uses nature sounds, music and background 'anti-chatter' voices (or 'walla') to mask the intelligibility of unwanted conversations."  The premise here isn't to block out the sound entirely, but rather to render normal human speech unintelligible, thereby eliminating distraction.

Another interesting (and slightly creepy) application is the BrainWave Generator.  Research tells us that our brains emit different types of waves while we sleep, learn, etc.  By recreating these waves with the binaural beats made by this program, you can put your mind into whatever state you'd like (in theory).

who knows if either of these are viable programs, but they're nonetheless interesting to read about.

Your reading assignment is now online as are links to the audio I mentioned today.  You can find it on the course page.

Also, a few details from today.  The Turkish composer I mentioned who was active with Davidovsky and others at the Columbia-Princeton studios was Bülent Arel (I said merely "B-A").  He is perhaps best known for having worked with Varèse on Deserts.  It is worth noting other composers who were active at Columbia-Princeton during the 60's and 70's; this is not a complete compilation by any means but shows how central these studios were for early electronic music.

Jon Appleton, Charles Dodge, Edgard Varèse, Vladamir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, Milton Babbitt, Wendy Carlos, Harvey  Sollberger, Charles Wuorinen, Bülent Arel, Mario Davidovsky, Luciano  Berio, and Jacob Druckman

I also mentioned the first concert at the Center, one in particular with Davidovsky's first piece (it was his first study, not the third as I incorrectly said).

Ussachevsky’s Creation-Prologue
Arel’s Stereo Electronic Music No. 1
Halim  El-Dabh’s Leila and the Poet
Milton Babbitt’s Composition for Synthesizer
Mario Davidovsky’s  Electronic Study # 1
Otto Luening’s Gargoyles for Violin Solo and Synthesized Sound
Charles  Wuorinen’s Symphonia Sacra

A more thorough overview of the Center's development and details of what equipment and means were available during this time can be found here:

The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (links for PDF)

One of the great composers of our time, a man as strange and wonderful as he was influential and masterful, Karlheinz Stockhausen has died at age 79.  The official dedications can be found on his homepage:

Stockhausen Passed Away

I have also attached a recent remix/improvisation on his one of his most famous works,Gesang der Jünglinge ("Song of the Youths"), composed in 1956.  This performance was done here at CEMC in 2006.

Masterpieces of the 20th Century, Gesang der Junglinge

In lecture today we discussed repetition broadly and I introduced you to several pieces, including Eric Satie's (in)famous Vexations.  I have attached a Reason "performance" of this piece, all 840 repeats ready to play.  Notice that the file is very small, under 1 MB.  If I exported all 3360 measures as audio, it would fill a small hard drive ;) 

I invite each of you to experience this piece for yourself,  the whole thing takes around 20 hours.  You can also export the MIDI file and play it on your home system (with notably bland General MIDI sounds).  For other non-piano versions of the piece, including several remixes and re-imaginings, see ubuweb here:

http://www.ubu.com
(for those who saw guitarist Alan Licht when he performed here last month, be sure to catch his guitar and voice rendition found about half way down the page)

A manuscript of the score can be found here:

Vexations manuscript

I have also attached a PDF score .

And, of course, John Cage's description of the performance:

Cage Letters on Vexations perfromance

Below is the sitewide chatroom.

To follow up on a non answer from lecture, here is a straight-forward introduction to TCP and UDP.

http://www.devmaster.net/wiki/UDP_vs_TCP

Here's the link to the information and videos I showed this afternoon in lecture.  Note the software section.  It should soon contain patches and other code to make this run.

http://www.popmodernism.org/scrambledhackz