Category: computerMusic2
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(compMus2) Quiz on Friday
Short Quiz on Friday, 11/14. Topics: Granular Synthesis Filters (general, and Digital)
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(compMus2) Sprectal Intro Reading
From the Roads, Read pp. 1075 – 1078 (up to first bold sub-heading on page), and pp. 541 – 577.
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(compMus2) Easy Geotagging and Attribution
Two issues have come up from early attempts to upload, attribute, and geotag samples on Freesound. Geotagging is much easier than I have made it out to be. You don’t need to use Google Earth at all. It’s built in to Freesound. Once you’ve uploaded a sample, and it has passed moderation (which only takes…
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(compMus2) Some thoughts about composition
in no particular order… Interesting compositions tend to have more than one layer of activity going on at any given time. In traditional acoustic classical music we may think of this as harmony and melody, but it could also include multiple contrapuntal lines, or a slow background harmonic movement, a middle ground harmonic accompaniment. For…
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(compMus2) Reading Assignment: Digital Filters
Reading Assignment Due Monday, 10/31: Read pp. 397 – 419 in the Roads, and answer the questions below. 1. What is the unit impulse? 2. What is the relationship between a filter’s frequency response and its impulse response (IR)? How do they differ? 3. Give the intuitive measurement for phase response. 4. What is the basic…
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(compMus2) Reading Assignment: Intro to Filters
Reading Assignment, due Monday, 10/27. Read pp. 185 – 197 in the Roads (yes, your favorite…) and answer the following questions. Some of this may be review, but it will certainly show up in one of our quizzes. 1. Assuming the basic, literal definition of a filter, name three things that are filters that do…
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(compMus2) Google Earth
Google Earth is now available in the lab, so it’s time to start tagging samples with longitude/latitude information.
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(compMus2) Copyright of Group Soundscape Compositions
I’ve added a discussion thread to teachingcomputermusic that outlines the copyright terms of our group soundscape compositions. It’s reachable via the main page, in the Forum section, below the teachingmusic blog rss feed. I need all of you in the computer music 2 classes to read the discussion thread, and post a reply to it…
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(compMus2) Soundscape Compositional Techniques
otherwise known as closet of technique, 1: It’s important to develop a set of audio processes that you can apply to all samples as ways to generate material for your compositions. We’ve been going over some of these ways in class, but I want to make sure the list of possible things is clear. This…
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(compMus2) Reading Assignment: Acousmatics
I’ve let the reading assignments fall off a bit, but we need to get back to expanding our heads. Due Wednesday, 10/22: Read “Acousmatics” by Pierre Schaeffer, in Audio Culture, pp. 76 – 81, including the introduction in the gray box on p. 76. Answer the following questions via email: Briefly discuss the relationship between…