Semester Schedule

Week 1:

8.25 Tu / Welcome! 8.27 Th / Intro to MaxMSP

• messages
• bang
• [metro]
• integers (whole numbers)
• [counter]
• [random]
• logic [==]
• [print]
• [select]

listenings:

• Vangelis - Blade Runner introduction
• Lauren Sarah Hayes - The Accusations that are Confessions
• Akihiko Matsumoto - Generative Ambient Music Live Cassette 002

Week 2:

9.1 Tu / Intro to Max (cont.)

• lists [zl objects]
• [random], [drunk], [+], [-], [*], [/]
• [pack], [unpack] 9.3 Th / Print Poems

showings:

• Wolfgang Mozart's musical dice game piece
• William S. Burroughs's cut-up technique
• Judy Malloy's Uncle Roger (1986-88, 1995) - web art piece

Module 1: Synthesizing Drones + Ambient Textures

Week 3

9.8 Tu / Tutorial: Additive Sound Synthesis

• [cycle~]
• [ezdac~]
• [live.gain~]
• [saw~]
• [rect~]
• [spectroscope~]
• [slider]
• [kslider]
• [*~] (audio amplifier)
• [meter~]
• [multislider]
• [pack], [unpack]
• [ftom], [mtof] (MIDI tranformations)
• [zl.lookup]

9.10 Th / Studio: Using messages, kslider, metro + counter to perform and automate additive synthesis

Listenings:

• Intro to Spectral Music
• Giacinto Scelsi's Konx-Om-Pax (1969)
• Konx-om-Pax - "Regional Surrealism" (2012)

Week 4

9.15 Tu / Tutorial: Subtractive Synthesis, Filters, Amplitude Modulation, LFOs

• [biquad~]
• [number~]
• [noise~]
• [*~] (amplitude)
• [live.scope~]
• [0.] (floating points)
• [scale~] and [scale]

9.17 Th / Studio: Add Filters, Amplitude modulation to your patch and automate them with LFOs

Week 5

9.22 Tu / Tutorial: Events, Envelopes, "Notes"

• [function]
• [line~]
• [adsr~]
• [noise~]
• [sah~]
• [edge~]

9.24 Th / Studio: Add Envelopes a Synth with Envelope to your patch

Week 6

9.29 Tu / Tutorial: Sequencing

• [preset]
• [matrixctrl]
• [matrix~]

10.1 Th / Studio: Experiment with Sequencers

Week 7

10.6 Tu / Tutorial Keyboard and Mouse Inputs

• [key]
• [keyup]
• [mousestate]

10.8 Th / Studio Midterm

Week 8

10.13 Tu / Studio Midterm 10.15 Th / Midterm Presentations

Module 2: Working with Recorded and Live Sound

Week 9

10.20 Tu / Tutorial Sample Playback

• [groove~]
• [buffer~]
• [bufferinfo~]
• [playlist~]

10.22 Th / Studio: Find and work with Samples on Freesound.org or Splice

Week 10

10.27 Tu / Games Controllers as Interface 10.29 Th / Studio BYO (wired) Game Controller (work in groups)

Week 11

11.3 Tu / Camera as Interface 11.5 Th / Studio Drive Sound with Camera

Week 12

11.10 Tu / Tutorial Final Project Development Stategies 1 11.12 Th / Studio Final Project

Week 13

11.17 Tu / Final Project Proposals 11.19 Th / Studio Final Project

Week 14

11.24 Tu / Project Development Strategies 2 11.26 Th / No Class; Thanksgiving

Week 15

12.1 Tu / Final Projects Day 1 12.3 Th / Final Projects Day 2