ClassNotes2008

This page is a place for the whole class to take notes on each week's class.

Week 1 (9/3)

• week 1 slides
• controller demos: reacTIVision and gametrak
• the What is music? example was 1972 by Coin Gutter, from the noise & the city 2lp
• the What is noise? example was the first movement of Mozart's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
• I used Audacity to generate White, Pink, and Brown noise
• vocal test cats and 130 cat mosh pit are remixes of Reuters Report on Russian cat lady

Week 2 (9/10)

• week 2 slides
• x0xb0x open source Roland TB-303 clone
• Towards a catalog and software library of mapping methods - my NIME paper about the Mapping Library for Pd
• Reware - project to make using Pd on embedded devices easy

Week 3 (9/17)

• week 3 slides
• videos from sensor presentation:
  • skin resistance + squeezing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8HZFkRs0bk
  • circuit bending: http://onthespot.info/vid/bent.html
  • replace the laptop with pcomp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkR2ID8j_mU
  • augmented violin: http://www.music.princeton.edu/~dan/BoSSA/
  • (heavily) augmented violin: http://www.music.princeton.edu/~dan/BoSSA/
  • tracking knobs + a table: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc
  • physical models + sound + visual: http://www.chdh.free.fr/data/video/chdh_20070927_scopitone_1.avi

Week 4 (9/24)

• Design for the Real World: Thinking Outside the Mouse - Bill Verplank, interviewed by Gideon D'Arcangelo
• Gideon's site: http://listeningin.org/

Week 5 (10/1)

• Greg Shakar's site: http://www.moodvector.com/

Week 6 (10/8)

• week 6 slides
• Medialab Prado, Madrid
• AVLAB 1.0 - Project Showcase, Medialab Prado
• Arthur Gansen, Kinetic Sculpture

Week 7 (10/15)

• week 7 slides
• Xenakis' UPIC - HighC, a recent version
• Exit Art space pictures and floorplans
• download and install Pd-extended for next class: http://puredata.info/downloads

Week 8 (10/22)

• http://firmata.org
• TENORI-ON Product Demo Performance

Week 9 (10/29)

• week 9 slides
• notes on Performance Planning
• netpd: local download and preload patch
• Notations21
• swar lippi - Indian music notation
• Gallery of Graphic Musical Notation

Week 10 (11/5)

• Radiolab: Quantum Cello - August 25, 2008

Week 11 (11/19)

• week 12 slides

The Show!

PerformanceNotes2008

• if you are moving anything from ITP in the van, be at ITP at 11am
• otherwise, be at Exit Art at 1pm
• after the show, everyone needs to stay and pack up everything