A list of room and time assignments for the oral test on Thursday 9/13 can be found here.

Due to a technical difficulty, the network drive mentioned for assignment hand-in will not be available until tomorrow or Saturday.  For those who complete the assignment (now online) before this, please keep the finished file in your personal "snd" folder until after the drive is back online.  I will post here again when that is so.

KE

Hey, I'm Dan Goldstein. I'm a sophomore comm major, minoring in AEM. I do not have any real background in terms of digital music. My experience with digital music extends to messing around on Fruity Loops and GarageBand, and making beats for social studies projects in high school with my friend who would rap about the constitution or the beauracracy. Not really the most professional sounding stuff you've ever heard. I really hope to learn a wide range of things from this course. I want to learn stuff as basic as just some of the terms and lingo associated with digital music, because I don't know what everything means. I also want to learn actual skills and how to create considerably nice sounding pieces of digital music. I've played percussion for 10 years and took piano lessons for a year or so. The reason I was drawn to this course is that digital music seems so limitless and I would really love to explore what I can do with such equipment. I'm excited to learn from everyone and make cool music together.

Below is the sitewide chatroom.

Wow, here it is, the first major release of Ardour (1.0 actually never made it out the door before a complete redesign, 2.0, was in the works).  I have personally watched the development of Ardour since the beginning, almost 10 years ago!  Mac and Linux users, enjoy.  Once JACK is available for Windows, MS users can also rejoice.

http://ardour.org/node/895

Download here

Tomorrow's class will be held in B27 and in the studios generally, not in the Library lab.  There is a network restriction in the Library that makes my intended lab project difficult to execute, so we'll do it within our own LAN downstairs.  Feel free to bring your own laptops tomorrow (the more the merrier) as we'll be exploring the network connectivity in more detail.

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

Brian/ Sooja

This is a brief list  of improv limitations Otomo Yoshihide uses in some of his ensembles  that I thought you might find interesting:

1. Do not react to the sound others make.
2.Do not use musical vocabulary such as phrases or rhythm.
3. Do not create a story.

Of course this is list might be useful only if we decide we would like to improvise

hit me back

nOrm!

Okay, not so much a masterpiece, but something pretty cool.  My initial ideas for a final project include several different aspects of experimental digital music performance I've toyed with during the semester. First, in the same style as before, I plan to include a bucket full of loopable midi snippets played together at random intervals. I also plan to use several computer inputs to determine the loops playing out of each of the four standard speakers. In addition, I will have a different timbral setup for each station, controlled in some way, and finally, the audience will be able to interact with this setup.

I've also asked my brother if he would like to beat box for me, although I have yet to see where this will fit in...

If anyone's interested in joining forces, your help and ideas would be most welcome!