Month: January 2010
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(musTh2) Phrases, Periods, Sentences, Motives and more
Chapter 6 of the Roig-Francoli lays out the material fairly well. I’m going to put it a bit more hierarchically. At the smallest levels of organization you have motives and phrase segments (sub-phrases). Motives are the smallest recognizable musical elements, with identifiable rhythmic or rhythmic and melodic characteristics. You recognize motives partly by their repetition…
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(musTh2) Assignment 2: Phrases
EDITED! Due Friday, 1/29/2010 From Chapter 6 of the Workbook: Exercise 6.1 (pp. 60 – 62), numbers 1 – 3, and 5 – 6 (6a, 6b, 6c). For number 2, only do measures 1 – 8. Number 5, the Trio starts on p. 314. Number 6b, look at the first 20 measures. For numbers 1…
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(maxmsp) Assignment 2: MIDI patchers
Due Monday, 2/1/2010 As a warm-up exercise for your first project (an interactive MIDI performance patcher), program patchers based on the following directions: 1) An arpeggiator that starts with the playing of a key on a MIDI keyboard, uses the MIDI key pressed as the bass note of the arpeggiator, plays the MIDI key pressed…
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(maxmsp) More Examples – gates and offsets
I saved these example patchers in the wrong folder, so they didn’t go up with the regular weekly review. These patchers have to do with the gate object, graphic switch object, and using math to offset values and scale them to a range. Look for the Day4 patchers in iLocker.
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(maxmsp) Weekly Review
Demo patchers are in iLocker now. Patchers are fairly well commented. You can experiement with them, make changes to make them do other things, etc. Tutorial topics are summarized in this earlier post. In addition to the tutorials, I covered: gate switch ggate and gswitch2 (graphic gate and graphic switch) umenu (drop down menu) table…
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(maxmsp) Tutorial Topics Learned So Far
Topics Covered in Basic Tutorials 1 – 7, and MIDI 1 – 2: Objects, messages, comments; the function of commas, and escape characters to treat special characters as text; adding objects and connecting. bang; multiple outs from one outlet; multiple ins to a single inlet; right-to-left order. ints, floats, lists; changing messages, set; limits to…
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(maxmsp) Turning in Your Work
Until we start working with digital audio, our turn-in process is quite easy. The short version: Put all your patchers in a single folder with your name as part of the folder name. Create a zip file of the folder. Attach the zip file to an email and send it to me at my gmail…
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(21stCent) Morton Feldman Reading and Listening
I’m going to hold off on the psychological perception articles for now. Instead, I’m linking to some texts by and about Morton Feldman. Next week I’m going to present Feldman and his work Triadic Memories for solo piano. The duration of this work is right around 1:30 (one hour and thirty minutes). It can stretch…
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(21stCent) Atonal Theory Review
Links to review material on atonal/set theory, based on the Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory by Joseph Straus, and taken from my undergrad course on 20th-century music: Intervals in atonal theory Pitch class set analysis, part 1 and part 2. Although I didn’t go over this in class, you can find my material for serialism and…
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(maxmsp) Week One Wrap Up
First Assignment is due Wednesday, 1/20. Demo patches from day 1, day 2, and day 3 are all in iLocker. Days 2 and 3 are just variations of day 1. The rounding patcher is also online, along with the outline I used to go from idea to algorithm to Max program. Key things to know…