Category: computerMusic1
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(compMus1) Essential Concrete Music Techniques
The book outlines five classic techniques for composing concrete music. Four techniques are derived from tape manipulation, and one is an external process. Tape Techniques Tape Splicing: allows for the re-ordering of sounds in time. Tape Echo/Delay: self-explanatory Change of Playback Speed: changes pitch and duration. Reversing of Tape Direction: also changes amplitude envelope. Process…
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(compMus1) Digital Performer Audio Problems
Erica in section 2 ran into a problem over the weekend that completely shuts off digital audio in DP. The fix is easy, but you have to know where to look. If all of your soundbites have red X’s through their wavey handles (~ or double ~’s), then your audio system in DP has been…
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(compMus1) Digital Audio Properties
Digital audio quality is determined by two properties: sampling rate and bit resolution. The sampling rate determines how often amplitude has been measured per second (per channel). The sampling rate determines the highest frequency that can be represented accurately. To get an accurate measurement for a particular frequency, you must measure amplitude at least twice…
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(compMus1) SoundHack and Cecilia Downloading
SoundHack is only available for the Macintosh. I haven’t seen anything like it for Windows. You can get it from www.soundhack.com, in the freeware section, or directly from here. Cecilia is a bit trickier. I’ve posted the mac version on my ilocker account, http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kkothman/BSU_SHARED/241/ Get the cecilia2-5.tar file. Online versions may not include the warper…
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(compMus1) Reading Chapter 2
Due Tuesday, 2/3. Read pp. 41 – 56 (the beginning of Chapter 2) in E/E, and answer the following questions: Name the two French Pierre’s who helped pioneer the construction of music using sound recording tools. The sound object (l’objet sonore) contains what three dimensions? Why is the idea of the sound object is critically…
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(compMus1) Publisher Textbook Web Resources
That sound unwieldy. A companion web site for E/E is online at the publisher’s site. http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415957823 So far, I haven’t gotten it to work. But the book promises a glossary, links page, and self-quizzes, among other things.
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(compMus1) Digital Performer Basics
I’m going to keep going over how to use Digital Performer, but for now, some helpful tidbits. Beyond the manual, DP has very useful online help. Under the help menu you can find context sensitive help for the active window, as well as more comprehensive help (Digital Performer Help). You should either read the DP…
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(compMus1) Project 1 Workflow
Since project 1 calls for you to use at least two different programs, and you will create a lot of files over the course of the project, it is helpful to have a grasp of workflow for the project. The first thing you need to do is gather your source recordings. Remember, these recordings need…
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(compMus1) Peak errors
This is a recurring problem, and one that needs to go in Jeff’s studio blog. When trying to perform almost any edit or process in Peak, users will often encounter an error to the effect: Unable to perform <process>. All scratch disks may be full, , or the process may have been canceled. This is…
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(compMus1) Festival of New Music
The Festival of New Music is next weekend. The basic schedule: Thursday (1/29): Guest Composer Marilyn Shrude will talk to the composition seminar. All are invited. Friday (1/30): Concert at 8pm Saturday (1/31): Concerts at 11am, 3pm, and 8pm.