• Module Guide
• Outline
• Summary
• Outcomes

• Assessments
• Project/Task Summary
• Workshop and Tutorial Times
• Assessment Criteria
• Reading/Listening List

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In this course students undertake study in high-level programming languages, investigating modes of interaction with hardware and software including graphical user interface design and elements of algorithmic control of musical patterning. In particular students will look at the interrelationships between these elements and learn how to implement important features of them in software. In order to help understand the nature of technology and its effect on music, students are asked to undertake a series of tasks culminating in the conception and implementation of projects of their own devising, for instance, a composition - either algorithmic or for live performance, a piece of functional music software or a performance tool based around an external hardware unit. Students will submit their collected exercises in a portfolio, to be accompanied by a brief critical evaluation, which should reference the current literature on creative music computing and should place the student's work in the context of current trends in creative music programming as well as providing a basis for the student's own criteria and judgement.

1. 1. Utilise knowledge of a variety of resources through customised software control.
2. 2. Create simple audio software for utility, investigative or creative purposes , demonstrating a knowledge of digital sound from a creative, theoretical and practical standpoint.
3. 3. Appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to human/machine interaction.
4. 4. Create a pre-recorded or live composition in which distinctive and original sounds are derived from one or more of these hardware resources.

Assessment
• In this course, you will be asked to work on a series of tasks and projects.

• These tasks are taken throughout the course; of these four are submitted and these are worth 10% each of the entire course. There is a summary of tasks and projects here.

• The projects are valued together at 60% of the entire course.

• Each task must be accompanied by sufficient documentation to ensure smooth demonstration of the task. Usually this documentation is best situated within the relevant patch, very MaxMSP or SC. More details here.

• Each project (not task) must be accompanied by a short commentary (approximately 200 words maximum) in text outlining your goals, achievements and experiences.

• All materials should be physically submitted to the i-Centre.

Submission
The final deadline for final submission of all material is Thursday 15th December 2011.

It is essential that you read this document for full details of your submission.

The final deadline for final submission of all material is Thursday 15th December 2011.

Your work will be marked according to the criteria set out in the document Artefact Creation (document available via University Login only).

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- Things to do first
- collect email
- Assessments
- Revision of material from 
Fundamentals of Computer Music
- Getting Help
- VLE submission?

- Other basic programming, introductory enviroments:
-- Scratch
-- Processing

- Also check out PD

notes

Task 1
 - Breakbeat-Cutting in MaxMSP
Manipulating sample lengths mathematically.

Due: w3i
Weighting: 10%

task summary | VLE

Preparation
- See Reading/Listening list
- Check that you are clear about 
Max/MSP external objects

Aims and Outcomes
- understand the idea of external objects
- use certain common methods in Max/MSP

- Contributes to outcome 1

Focus
- Check all emails are in
- Projects
- some ideas and previous 
cohorts' examples
- reverse engineering, degrade~, etc.
- Designing Sound by Andy Farnell
-- http://aspress.co.uk/ds/about_book.php

notes

Follow-up
- Tasks (Max/MSP)
- look through the course materials and begin
to consider what you might want to undertake
for the Max/MSP Project

Task 2
 - Introduction to Pure Data
Introduction to Pure Data

Due: w4i
Weighting: 0%

task summary | VLE

Preparation
- Pitch tracking, beat following and gating

Aims and Outcomes
- understand some of the work and ideas behind
speech and voice synthesis

- Contributes to outcomes 2, 4

Outline
- Fiddle~ Bonk~ and Gate...

notes

Follow-up
- Tasks (Max/MSP)

Task 3
 - Fiddle Bonk Gate Task
Using Fiddle~, Bonk~ and Gate~ in MaxMSP.

Due: w5i
Weighting: 10%

task summary | VLE

Preparation
- Prepare some sort of proposal concerning
what you might attempt for the 
The MaxMSP Project

Aims and Outcomes
- Different types of synthesis using MaxMSP
- Starting out with Algorithms in MaxMSP

- Contributes to outcome 1

Focus
Synthesising Sound in MaxMSP.

- investigate different types of synthesis
and their implementation in MaxMSP

The Max/MSP Project

Follow-up
- MaxMSP Project

Task 4
 - Synthesis with MaxMSP
Synthesising Sound in MaxMSP.

Due: w6i
Weighting: 10%

task summary | VLE

Focus
- Using Algorithms in MaxMSP

Task 5
 - Algorithms with MaxMSP
Algorithmic Composition using MaxMSP.

Due: w7i
Weighting: 0%

task summary | VLE

Focus
Generative Music/Algorithms.
- Your own version of SC

Task 6
 - Generative Composition Using SC 1
Generative Music/Algorithms.

Due: w8i
Weighting: 10%

task summary | VLE

- Tutorials (Max/MSP Project): 
if you are not able to attend 
during class time please make 
an appointment with RH during 
his feedback/office hours.

Focus
Generative Music/Algorithms.
- SC140 Project (Dan Stowell)
- External Objects
- BBCut
- Toplap
- Assessment Criteria
- Projects

Task 7
 - Generative Composition Using SC 2
Generative Music/Algorithms.

Due: w10i
Weighting: 10%

task summary | VLE

Focus
Using controllers (game controllers, Wii...)
and external classes in SuperCollider.
- Some ideas and previous 
cohorts' examples
- Cottle...

notes

Task 8
 - Controllers and External Classes in SuperCollider
Using controllers (game controllers, Wii...)
and external classes in SuperCollider.

Due: w11i
Weighting: 0%

task summary | VLE

Focus
Writing generative music/algorithms with SuperCollider using a GUI

Task 9
 - Generative Composition Using SC 3: using a GUI
Writing generative music/algorithms with SuperCollider using a GUI

Due: w12i
Weighting: 10%

task summary | VLE

PERFORMANCES (tbc)

TUTORIALS

Max/MSP and Supercollider are our basic platforms. Max/MSP is available from Cycling74.

Included on MDF:

Collins, N., Cottle, D. M. and Wilson, S., (eds) (2010). The SuperCollider Book. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Cope, D. (2005). Computer models of musical creativity. Cambridge, Mass.:MIT Press.
Loy, D. G. (2006). Musimathics : the mathematical foundations of music. Cambridge, Mass. & London: MIT Press.
Miranda, E. R. (2001). Composing music with computers. Oxford: Focal.
Miranda, E. R. and M. M. Wanderley (2006). New digital musical instruments : control and interaction beyond the keyboard. Middleton, Wis.: A-R Editions.