Year: 2012
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(pianoPed) Creating a website with WordPress
I like to use my teachingmusic posts to help distill information from class. Even with a small number of people, we tend to branch off with different things catching our attention. WordPress.com
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(musTh 212) Final Exam Review, 2012
The Final Exam is comprehensive. You should review posts from the semester. Twilight of the Tonal System (chromatic and doubly chromatic mediants, etc., concepts from Chapter 1)
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(musTh 212) Electronic Music
Late posting. Concrete Music (Musique Concrete) Concrete Music uses prerecorded sounds (often natural sounds) as the source of all of its sounds for a composition. The French were the first to develop this technique, and it draws upon their focus on color (think Debussy, Ravel, etc.), but their development is only a historical origin point.…
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(maxmsp) know your cpu status
Just a last minute post, since crashing seems to be taking over your life. To monitor your total cpu usage, you need to open the Activity Monitor (Mac only). Go to Applications | Utilities | Activity Monitor. You have various ways of looking at your usage. The key is looking at the overall percentage of…
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motu drivers
download the motu drivers for the ultralite in studio 9 HERE.
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Jitter, Pt.3
today’s lecture included chromakey and multiplying jitter matrices. Download the patch HERE.
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(musTh 212) Minimalism
Minimalism began as a general reaction to post-WWII modernism, atonality, and integral serialism. As such, there are certain traits that one find in minimalist pieces, but the technique is not uniform (just as there are many ways of composing 12-tone music, or classical period tonal music, for example). Characteristics of minimalism: restricted pitch and rhythmic…
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(musThe 212) Assignment: Texture, Ionisation
Due Wednesday, April 18th. Using the YouTube video embedded below, listen to Varese’s Ionisation. Identify four (4) thematic elements (rhythmic cells) by the time on the video that they occur, and what instrument(s) is playing the element. Musically notate the rhythms for three (3) of the elements. Write a textural analysis, similar to what we did…