Year: 2010
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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…
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(musTh2) Reading assignment for Wednesday
For Wednesday, 1/20, read chapter 6 of the Roig-Francoli textbook, and the handout on Phrase, Period, and Sentence structure (in my iLocker account).
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(musTh2) Adding Suspensions to Part-Writing Exercises
My original, and brief, summary of suspensions can be found in this post from last semester. Scroll down for the portion of suspensions. Since you’re going to have to keep writing suspensions to part-writing exercises it would be good to have a plan of action. First, always complete your exercise without any non-chord tones (NCTs).…
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(musTh2) Checking Harmonic Progressions for Errors
If you’re given a harmonic progression with inversion figures (6, 4/2, etc.), checking for errors involves checking root movements and chord-class movements between harmonies, as well as if the figures specify poor voice leading in the implied bass line. The errors fall into the following categories: Harmonies disallowed root movements disallowed chord class movements Figures…