Author: Keith Kothman
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(musTh1) Tutoring
In addition to meeting with me and/or Grace, we have a graduate assistant available for tutoring. You can email him to set up a meeting time. Dan French (bsu: dwfrench)
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(compMus2) Grad Assistant Help
Just a reminder, there are two musicTech graduate assistants that can help out with synthesis stuff. Vanissa Law (bsu address: wlaw) Paul Manning (gmail: paulavmanning) I haven’t heard from Paul yet, but Vanissa has said that she will be around the lab in the afternoons.
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(compMus2) Reading Assignment: Cowell and Merzbow
Due Wednesday, 9/17 Reading, from Audio Culture: Henry Cowell, “The Joys of Noise.” pp. 22 – 24 “The Beauty of Noise: an Interview with Masami Akita of Merzbow.” pp. 59 – 61 Since both are talking about noise as musically pleasurable occurrence, write me a couple of short sentences for each article that illustrates how…
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(compMus2) More Tassman Examples
I’ve uploaded another example instrument, 4 op FM mix, into my iLocker 241 folder. (you have to navigate to the 241 folder, inside of BSU_SHARED) You can also download the FM operator sub-patch as a separate file. The instrument is the basic one I’ve been using in class – two modulator-carrier pairs, with a pitch…
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(compMus2) Creative Project 1 — UPDATED
NOTE UPDATE ON DURATION REQUIREMENT. I realized that I hadn’t posted this – this is the same as the handout, except for the extended deadline. -K MUMET 241: First Creative Project (Due 9/24, by the beginning of class), Modulation Synthesis Compose a 2-minute excerpt of computer music using analog synthesis techniques available in Tassman, focusing…
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(compMus2) Project 1 Deadline Extended
I’m pushing the deadline back for the first creative project to SEPTEMBER 24th, a one week extension. Friday I’m going to talk about some creative ways to use pitch envelopes, lfo’s for amplitude tremelo, and creative ways you can use MIDI continuous control (MIDI Links in Tassman). Don’t put off working with Tassman. It takes…
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(compMus2) FM Synth Tips 2
Composing, Creativity, and Instrument Programming One of the things that gets overlooked in talking about synthesis programming is the relationship between programming/creating synth patches and composition. When we write music for acoustic instruments we don’t have to worry about designing the instrument that will play our music. It’s properties are well-known, and we choose to…
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(compMus2) FM synth tips 1
In FM synthesis, the ratio of the modulator to the carrier determines your spectrum by setting the relationship between partials. In general, integer ratios produce harmonic sounds, where pitch is perceivable due to the partials being in an integer relationship to the fundamental. Non-integer relationships produce inharmonic sounds, with partials not having an integer relationship…
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(musTh1) Mixed Intervals 1
I’ve placed a pdf of the answers to the interval worksheet I handed out in class on Friday in my iLocker account. iLocker: ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kkothman/BSU_SHARED Navigate to the 111 folder, and the file is IntervalWS-1.pdf.
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(compMus2) Tassman Samples in iLocker
I’ve posted a few sample instruments from class in my iLocker account, BSU_SHARED/241 folder. After you click on the link, log in with your bsu username and password for access. I’ve only directly exported the instruments, but the sub-patches are there as well. When you import them, the sub-patches get automatically imported. Feel free to…