Author: Keith Kothman
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(maxmsp) Notable Guest
Tim Place, one of the founders of Electrotap and an employee of Cycling74, will be giving a talk to the composer forum today at 4, in SoundHouse C. Other events on his schedule for Friday: He’ll be talking to our class at 11. He’ll be giving a “brown bag” lecture downtown on the soon-to-be-released Max/MSP…
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(musTh 212) Lecture Notes: Midterm Review
Some last minute tips heading into tomorrow’s midterm: The material will primarily come from chapters 2 – 6 (partial) of the Kostka. This includes scale formations, chords, melodic characteristics, harmony/voice leading/pitch-centric tonality, along with some rhythm and meter. In particular, study: Pitch class integer notation. Scales. Be able to write any of the modes (starting…
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Progression, Tonal Centers
Due 2/25: Chapter 5, pp. 110 – 111. Part B, numbers 6 and 7. Be sure to address questions a – e on p. 110 for each example.
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(musTh) 212: Listening/Reading Assignment – Messiaen
For Friday (2/21): Read Ch. 6 of the Kostka (“Developments in Rhythm”) Listen to TWO movements of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time (one additional movement from what I said in class): Movement 1, “Liturgie de cristal (Crystal Liturgy), in the Burkhart starting on p. 503. Movement 6, “Danse de la Fureur, pour les…
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(maxmsp) Assignment 1 Solution Patchers
The two solution patchers I showed in class today (solutions to Assignment 1), and the stripnote patcher, are in my iLocker account. http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kkothman/BSU_SHARED/maxmsp_examples/Assign1Solved/
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(musTh212) Assignment:Melody Due Date Postponed
The Melody Assignment due date is postponed until Wednesday. I want to talk about a couple more things that will help with completing the assignment. Do look over the assignment, and try to do as much as possible, because there will be another assignment added on Monday.
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Melody (UPDATED)
Due Monday, 2/18 Wednesday, 2/20: Listen to the remaining pieces on the syllabus for pertaining to chapters 4 and 5. (The Crawford String Quartet, etc…) From the Kostka, do pp. 93 – 94, Part B 1) a and b, with c as extra credit; and 2) a, b, c, and d.
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(maxmsp) Patchers in iLocker
The fft and lfo patchers are in my iLocker space. Since the recent examples are require sub-patchers, I’ve put them into folders. kothman1 has my wind machine (variable filter) patcher, along with some sound files to use. kothmanConvolution has my version of the Convolution tutorial patcher. kothmanSpatial has my fft-based spatializer (with time delay). LFOStuff…
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(maxmsp) Assignment 4: Modulation
Due Friday, 2/22 Create two patchers with LFO modulation, as described below. Create a tremolo patch where one or more LFO signals modulates the amplitude of soundfile playback. It is important that the tremolo be amplitude modulation, not ring modulation. The user should be able to change the depth of modulation via external MIDI control.…
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(musTh212) Assignment: Tower's Wild Purple (UPDATED-2)
For those of you who don’t have the “Postmodern Update” to the sixth ed. of the Anthology, here’s a scan of the page you need from the Anthology. (towerWildPurple-p1.pdf) Due Friday, 2/15: Analyze the first page (p. 569 in the Anthology) of Tower’s Wild Purple according to its use of octatonic scale collections. Bracket and…