MUSI403&404 http://tri-jack.org/blog Electronic Music Composition Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:40:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Outline of Peak tools + Microphones in studios http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=319 http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=319#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:40:30 +0000 danz http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=319 Below is the outline for the presentations I did on Peak. Also, I have placed one microphone in studios C & D for you all to use for project 4.1. Go ahead and sign up for studio time and begin your sessions.

Working in Peak – Organizing your sounds & playing with them

I. Peak basics
Where is everything?

  1. Tools & buttons
  2. Audio set-up
  3. Getting around in your sound file
  4. Zoom in/out
  5. Fade in/out
  6. Recording into Peak

II. Making Regions and the first step in organizing your sounds

  1. How to make regions
  2. Exporting regions
  3. Creating stereo/mono files
  4. Copy/paste

III. DSP and playing with your sounds

  1. Changing the amplitude
  • Normalize RMS
  • Working with and creating amplitude envelopes
  • change gain
  • Fade in/out

2. Changing pitch and duration

    • change pitch
    • change duration

    3. Reversing a sound
    4. Inserting silence and cutting your sounds up

    5. repairing clicks

    • drawing the waveform
    • repair clicks function
    • caps-lock

    6. Mix and add functions

    IV. More advanced sound modifications

    • Convolution
    • Phase Vocoding

    V. Plugins (filters and effects)

    ]]>     http://tri-jack.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=319 0     Project 3 | Listening examples http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=298 http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=298#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:36:39 +0000 danz http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=298 Below are three listening examples to use for Project 3.  Choose two to make your drawings with.

    Listening 1 ↓↑

    Listening 2 ↓↑

    Listening 3 ↓↑

    ]]>     http://tri-jack.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=298 0     WELCOME MUSI 403 Students! http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=289 http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=289#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:37:37 +0000 danz http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=289 This is just the initial post of the semester, and I just wanted to put something up here to get this thing going again. I have put all the paper material that I handed out in class up online. I enjoyed very much meeting all of you today and sharing in a performance of 4′33″. If you would like to go ahead and register for the site so you can post things up here too, please do. See you all Wednesday.

    ]]>     http://tri-jack.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=289 0     munger1~ and some granulation patches http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=58 http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=58#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:41:57 +0000 danz http://www.tri-jack.org/blog/?p=58 munger1~  <– This package contains the files for different operating systems. Make sure you use the correct one.

    1. Put the munger1~.mxo/mxe/ file in the folder Max5/Cyclying ‘74/msp-externals

    2. Put the help file in msp-help folder.

     

    Assignment: Build a patch that uses the munger object to alter live input, a sound file, or any kind of sound source. 

     

    granular patches <– This has the patches that I demonstrated on Friday plus one more for you to look at and play with.

    ]]>     http://tri-jack.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=58 0     Wave shaping patch http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=55 http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=55#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:05:54 +0000 danz http://www.tri-jack.org/blog/?p=55 Here is today’s patch.

    ]]>     http://tri-jack.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=55 0     Assignment for Friday 2/6 http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=45 http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=45#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:01:20 +0000 danz http://www.tri-jack.org/blog/?p=45 Using the synthesis techniques of AM, FM, Ring mod, and additive, plus the patch I demonstrated today in class, develop an “instrument” in Max/MSP that you can perform using your mouse as one of the controlling elements. You may also want to set up a way to record your performance. Start simple and expand, if that helps. Or even better, come up with an idea of something you want to create and try to realize that. Starting with a good idea is always more rewarding in the end, however it can also be more frustrating. Please email the patch(es) to me before class on Friday.

     

    Here are the patches from wed. 2/4

    ]]>     http://tri-jack.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=45 2     listening suggestions http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=42 http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=42#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:40:57 +0000 danz http://www.tri-jack.org/blog/?p=42 Grace was wanting some music to listen to, so I decided to post a list of composers to check out.

    - Jonty Harrison

    - Michael Alcorn

    - Luc Ferrari

    - Gilles Gobeil

    - Yves Doust

    - Iannis Xenakis

    - Pierre Henry (music on last.fm)

    - Hildegard Westerkamp

    - Hsiao-Lan Wang

    - Jon Nelson

    - Jean Claude Rissett

    - Bernard Parmegiani

     

    These are off the top of my head…

    ]]>     http://tri-jack.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=42 0     patches and stuff to study http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=38 http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=38#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:18:21 +0000 danz http://www.tri-jack.org/blog/?p=38 For Wednesday take a look at MSP tutorials 7-11, and go through the patches that I’m posting online. I think that should be good. I’ll get some reading up here for you as well, but I don’t want to give you too much to deal with.

     

    For today’s patches I haven’t uploaded any sound files, so you will need to use files you already have. Also, I recommend trying to recreate the patches and even adding to them so that you understand what is going on.

    download patches 8

    ]]>     http://tri-jack.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=38 0     sound file playback/record & reading http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=33 http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=33#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:00:48 +0000 danz http://www.tri-jack.org/blog/?p=33 Here is the patch that I showed in class: patch 5

    Here is what I’m looking for from you tomorrow:
    1. Create a patch that both plays back sound files and records
    2. You should be able to control if not all, almost all of the patch through your keyboard: ie. turn it on, play sounds, record, reset volume, etc…
    3. Get creative with sound file playback. How can you do simple processes to the sounds and make an instrument out of it?
    Here are some methods you might implement: reverse, slow, fast, looping, envelope, delay    

    How can you turn this into an instrument that you could perform with? Maybe a performer could play along with you controlling soundfile playback from your laptop.
    ]]>     http://tri-jack.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=33 0     stuff for Friday http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=31 http://tri-jack.org/blog/?p=31#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:31:56 +0000 danz http://www.tri-jack.org/blog/?p=31 Okay, I resolved the problem with the first patch that I started todays class with, and everything else should be working fine. Let me know if you have any problems. 

     

    here are the patches

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