Category: musth625
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(musTh625) first reading assignment
For Monday (3/19), read: from teachingmusic musique concrète from Jeffrey Hass’s projects in electronic music online text chapter 1, sections 1, 2, 4, and 5
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(musTh625) making a listening guide for electro-acoustic music
Rather than make you memorize pieces/composers/dates in a short summer session, I want you to engage a few selected works in more detail. To do so, I want you to create listening guides for each assigned listening piece. The format of the guide will be as follows: composer name year composed duration overview detailed examination of…
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(pianoPed) file types for images and graphics
I’m not going to focus on too many topics related to image editing, as that is a discipline unto itself. I do want to talk about file formats, compression, and cropping. gif, jpeg, and png The three file types for web images are GIF, JPEG, and PNG. Photographs (pictures of natural images, people, etc.) should use…
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(musTh625) audio properties, analog and digital recording
I’ve covered basic properties of sound in a previous post: http://teachingmusic.keithkothman.com/2012/09/sonicarts-properties-of-sound/ I’ve also posted about analog and digital recording before, going into a little more detail about Sampling Rate, Bit Resolution, and Binary Numbers. http://teachingmusic.keithkothman.com/2013/09/sonicarts-analog-recording-digital-recording-digital-audio-sampling-theory/
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(musTh625) assignment 1: soundwalk
Due Friday, May 16. The Handbook for Acoustic Ecology defines a soundwalk as follows: A form of active participation in the soundscape. Though the variations are many, the essential purpose of the soundwalk is to encourage the participant to listen discriminatively, and moreover, to make critical judgements about the sounds heard and their contribution to the balance…
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(musTh625) some quick absynth tips
Learning your way around the various windows is perhaps one of the biggest keys to success with Absynth. Starting with a new sound, here are some keys to navigating and creating your sounds. Programming sounds Start with the Patch window. Here is where you specify and connect the basic modules of your program. There are…
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(musTh625) recording audio from software instruments in digital performer
Output from software instruments in a DAW like Digital Performer typically is routed to the default outputs so that you can hear your software instruments when played by MIDI data. To record the audio output of a software instrument you need to route the instrument track output to a bus pair, and add a stereo…
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(musTh625) using software instruments in digital performer
Brief, outline posts for some important topics. Software instruments operate like insert effects in Digital Performer (and other DAWs). They are an effect in a special type of track, an instrument track. Instrument tracks require a MIDI track set to send information to the software synth. The basic setup: Go to the Project menu, Add Track | Add…
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(musTh625) final project
Given the unforeseen changes to our end-of-session meetings, I am proposing a short final project. Due 6/15/13, by 11:59 pm (since I don’t know if Midnight belongs to the day before or the day after). You should compress/zip your project folder, upload it to iLocker (or Dropbox, or some similar online accessible storage), and email…
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(musTh625) Synthesis
Synthesis in outline form Analog Synthesis -> Synthesis Analog synthesis originally involved synthesizers that generated and modified electrical signals that fluctuated in an analogous manner to the air pressure fluctuations that we hear as sound. Most synthesizers today use digital circuits and programs to generate and process sound, but these synthesizers are usually modeled after…