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ep-3xx41 Max – week 8

David Zicarelli from Cycling74

Notes:

– Music is technology independent.
– Technology has a sound.

Music exists on a continuum from predicability to unpredicability

  • David on Miller Puckette: He programmed with a bottle of Scotch (a chemical version of Occam’s razor?) His code also featured swear words as variable names. And allegedly he did not always wear pants while working
  • One of Cycling74’s goals was simply to make Max into a commercial product.
  • I was rejected from every graduate  school music program that I applied to.
  • The Internet provides an equivalent way for introverts to seek out extroverted people.
  • I do wear pants when I’m working.
  • The “jumping Rhoomba” – [When you don’t understand how to program something you can get interesting results].
  • The world has the same properties as a musical instrument.
  • Nobody cares about technology – just the outcome.
  • Computers were designed for office work.
  • David Rokeby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rokeby Using cameras as controllers to make sound. (specularity)
  • For example, Autotune technology has a sound.

Assignment:

Make music based on the two concepts:

  • music is technology independent
  • technology has a sound
David said that he would be willing to listen to the results and offer suggestions.

 

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ep-3xx41 Max – week 11

Max For Live

  • Max For Live gives you the ability to tweak almost any aspect of Ableton Live. Its equivalent to working under the hood of a car.

examples

  • chord.amxd
  • tempo-test.amxd
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References

Assignment: synopsis

Write a very short composition or sound logo based on a synopsis of a movie, tv show, or product in City Shopper* – For example:

  • “A sheriff and deputy try to rid their town of thugs”
  • “An evil doll and its mate seek human form”
  • “Stewie looks into his future”
  • “National Aviation Academy: training aviation professionals since 1932”
Use Max For Live device(s) that you have designed or modified.
*You can use an alternate source. For example, write a composition for a product or film that you are trying to promote – As long as you can describe that product in one sentence.
Extra Credit: Perform the music using a controller that works with a Max For Live device.
Due on November 25.
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Max data recorder

This has been around for a while and is being used in several internetSensor projects. Records and plays back lists (this version allows lists where the first element is a symbol). Can record and playback simultaneously at different rates. Was originally adapted from MZ’s CNMAT example. And subsequently ruined.

download

https://github.com/tkzic/internet-sensors

folder: data-recorder

files

  • data-recorder-wrapper.maxpat (main entry point)
  • data_recorder_list-tz.maxpat (recorder abstraction)

There is also an example of multi-rate streaming in: data-recorder-tester.maxpat

 

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Getting started with Google Maps

Installed working example at:

http://zerokidz.com/gmap/map-simple.html

The Google static map API:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/#quick_example

The tracks API:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/tracks/

Simple Google Maps example from Jayway:

http://www.jayway.com/2012/04/02/simple-google-maps-api-example/

Yet another example using geolocation:

http://www.sitepoint.com/working-with-geolocation-and-google-maps-api/

Got this one working, sort of, here:

http://zerokidz.com/gmap/geolocation.html

 

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ep-4xx13 DSP – week 11

Internet API’s

the past

Assignment

Please email me a synopsis of project idea [email protected]

 

 

 

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ep-4xx13 DSP – week 9

Artists and Ideas, reversibility

Reversibility

Artists: discovery, exploration, and vision

How to get ideas: John Cleese on Creativity

Assignment

(from last week)

Choose an idea for project. We will work on this over the next 3-4 weeks. Several of you have asked about designing interactive projects involving sonification, Internet API’s, environmental sensors, interactive art etc., Lets do it. Write a short description of what you would like to do and email it to me before next week’s class.

 

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libpd, Leap Motion, and Osc, in Openframeworks

On Mac OS 10.8 using Xcode 5, and openframeworks version 8

  1. Install and test openframeworks from http://www.openframeworks.cc/download/ 
  2. Install and test libpd https://github.com/danomatika/ofxPd (you should be able to run the example programs)
  3. Install and test leap motion https://github.com/ofTheo/ofxLeapMotion  (you should be able to run the example programs)
  4. Install Pd (I installed pd-extended, even though this project is limitied to Pd ‘vanilla’) http://puredata.info/downloads

Note: The Osc addon is already provided with openframeworks distribution. At this point you have everything you need to run the test example.

  • Download the project: http://zerokidz.com/downloads/leadPdTest5.zip
  • Copy the leapPdTest5 folder into the ofx8/addons/ofxLeapMotion folder
  • Launch the xcode project: leapPdTest5.xcodeproj
  • plug in a leap and turn up the volume
  • Compile and run (you may need to compile the openframeworks scheme first)

Notes:

 

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semi-reversible ways to transform a signal

  • modulation: AM, FM, SSB -> demodulation AM, FM, SSB https://reactivemusic.net/?p=8885
  • FFT -> IFFT (use Max [fft~] and [ifft~] objects)
  • inverse -> inverse (phase cancellation) https://reactivemusic.net/?p=8879
  • reciprocal [!/~ 1] -> reciprocal (big difference in sound)
  • frequency shifting -> frequency shifting (use Max [freqshift~] object)
  • add constant to amplitude -> subtract constant from amplitude
  • DAC -> ADC
  • lossless encoding -> decoding (FLAC)
  • lossy encoding -> decoding (mp3)
  • packetize -> unpactetize
  • send stream -> receive stream

 

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ep-3xx41 Max – week 9

Max For Live

  • We had to abandon the Max For Live demo because of technical issues

References

Examples of sound logos:

Assignment: Synopsis

Write a very short composition or sound logo based on a synopsis of a movie, tv show, or product in City Shopper* – For example:

  • “A sheriff and deputy try to rid their town of thugs”
  • “An evil doll and its mate seek human form”
  • “Stewie looks into his future”
  • “National Aviation Academy: training aviation professionals since 1932”
Use Max For Live device(s) that you have designed or modified.
*You can use an alternate source. For example, write a composition for a product or film that you are trying to promote – As long as you can describe that product in one sentence.
Extra Credit: Perform the music using a controller that works with a Max For Live device.
Due on November 25.
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ep-4xx13 DSP – week 8

 

reversibility

notes

Examples

  • a modem in Max

Assignment

Choose an idea for project. We will work on this over the next 3-4 weeks. Several of you have asked about designing interactive projects involving sonification, Internet API’s, environmental sensors, interactive art etc., Lets do it. Write a short description of what you would like to do and email it to me before next week’s class.