Month: February 2007
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(compMus1) Reading Assignment: more on Phase Vocoding
Additional Phase Vocoder Readings: Square One: A Stitch in Time (EM) A little cheeky, and you don’t need to get deep with the alternate forms of processing suggested. The original documentation for SoundHack on Phase Vocoding sldkjf
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(musicTheory2) Lecture Notes: Leading Tone Seventh Chords
Start by remembering the general stuff: 7ths are dissonant intervals. The chordal seventh must be PREPARED (approached by step or same tone, P – N – Sus; rarely as an appoggiatura), and RESOLVED (down by step). This applies no matter what the root is (or Roman numeral classification) Fully diminished leading tone seventh chords are…
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(musicTheory2) Assignment 6: Ch. 19 Leading Tone Seventh Chords
Wkbk: p. 155, #3 A – F (due Friday) Follow directions on p. 154 carefully. Complete in four voices.
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(compMus1) Lecture Notes: Getting Started with SoundHack
You can download SoundHack at <http://www.soundhack.com>. We’ll be using two processes in SoundHack right now. Both are located in the Hack menu. Varispeed: Continuously variable changing playback speed (without pitch correction). Phase Vocoder: time compression/expansion and pitch change independent of each other. For Varispeed: You can set upper and lower limits for the draw box.…
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(compMus1) Lecture Notes – Digital Performer
Just to remind all of you about the Digital Performer issues discussed in class (2/5): Save often. DP 4.12 crashes. Set your Time Formats (Setup | Time Formats) to Real Time for this project (all formats and rulers) Insert a tempo change into the conductor track so that a quarter note = 60 beats/minute. The…
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(compMus1) Reading Assignment: Fourier Transform
Read about Fourier Transform and Fast Fourier Transform in: MSP453TutorialsAndTopics.pdf (you may have already downloaded this…), tutorials 25 and 26 (26: Time vs. Frequency resolution)
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(musicTheory2) Lecture Notes: Rhythm and Meter 2
Terms: You should learn the bold-face terms in Chapter 18. Compound Single Meter Complex Beat Division Hypermeasures Rhythmic Dissonance Substituted Beat Division Superimposed Beat Division Syncopation Displaced Accents/accentuation Metrical Dissonance Hemiola Substituted Meter Polyrhythm Metric Shift Changes of Meter
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Signing up for a WordPress Account
Some people have asked me about how to sign up for a WordPress account (needed for posting comments to the blog). You can download the following document with some screen shots of the pages to help navigate. <wordpressSignup.pdf>
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(compMus1) Previous Lecture Notes
To save space, and the number of posts, I’m just going to list links to previous lecture notes. Class Intro/Computer Music Intro Digital and Analog Audio Digital Recording and Peak Music Concrete Quiz 1 Review From now on, I’ll post a link to each day’s lecture notes in an individual blog post.
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(compMus1) Assignment: Creative Project 2
MuMet 140: Creative Project 2, Multitrack Concrete Music Due: 2/27 (Download pdf of project assignment file) Overview Building on your knowledge of sample processing learned in project 1, create a two-minute work of concrete music using recorded sounds. You may use sounds from Project 1, sounds from online libraries, sample CDs in Bracken…