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== General Information ==
Graduate Seminar, Fall 2010 into Spring 2011

Trinity College Dublin Music Department

[http://music.princeton.edu/~dan Dan Trueman]
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What this year-long bi-weekly seminar ends up being will depend on participant interest. 

=== Possible subjects ===

* laptops and performance
* networks, local and distance
* instrument building, including: 
** output: speaker design 
** input: sensors, controllers, hacked thingies, touch surfaces, etc...
** mapping: explicit, new machine learning approaches (implicit), etc...
** synthesis
** signal processing 
** programming: ChucK, Max/MSP, Processing, others...
** the notion of "composed instruments"
** and much more
* rhythm, meter, time, perception and machines
* algorithms, technology, and composition/creativity
* transmission and notation
* we could become a band and make up and play some music together?
* or not...
* and whatever else comes up!


I'd like this to function in part as a pro-seminar, where participants share their own work over the course of the year and get feedback from others. It can also end up partially hands-on, where we build/hack/code things together or in groups. Let's see what happens!!

== Participants ==
* Dan Trueman, dtrueman AT princeton.edu
* names, email addresses (bot obscured), of everyone else
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== Schedule ==
=== Week 1: 14/10/2010 ===
* introductions
* syllabus, such as it is!
* discussion of what we should do!
* Things to check out and/or do before next session:
** Some blogs/papers to peruse/read as you find interesting:
*** this [http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/04/27/the-end-of-laptop-hegemony-in-live-computer-music/ recent posting] by Peter Kirn about laptops and performance
*** and, in general, [http://createdigitalmusic.com/ Peter's broadly inclusive but gear-oriented blog]
*** Weidenbaum, M. 2006. [http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=4659 Serial Port: A Brief History of Laptop Music]. NewMusicBox, fun survey.
*** Cascone, K. 2003. [http://music.princeton.edu/~dan/plork/PLOrk_reader/papers/contemporaryMusicReview/22(4)/Cascone2.pdf Grain, Sequence, System: Three Levels of Reception in the Performance of Laptop Music.] Contemporary Music Review 22(4): 101–104.
*** Ostertag, B. 2002. [http://music.princeton.edu/~dan/plork/PLOrk_reader/papers/leonardo/Ostertag.pdf Human Bodies, Computer Music.] Leonardo Music Journal 12: 11–14.
*** Trueman, D. 2007. [http://music.princeton.edu/~dan/plork/PLOrk_reader/papers/OrganisedSound/WhyALaptopOrchestra.pdf Why a Laptop Orchestra?] Organised Sound, 12:2.
*** and an [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/09/15/080915crmu_music_frerejones?currentPage=all article by Sasha Frere Jones].
*** please let me know about other relevant readings or sites!
*** come prepared next time with a few thoughts about 1-2 "things" or ideas that you find particularly interesting, frightening, provocative, etc...
** [[PLOrk Reader]]; lots and lots of reading relevant to computer music, performance, composition, etc...
** Proceedings from the New Interfaces for Musical Expression:
*** [http://www.educ.dab.uts.edu.au/nime/PROCEEDINGS/ 2010]
*** [http://www.nime2009.org/proceedings.php 2009]
*** [http://nime2008.casapaganini.org/Pages/online_proceedings.html 2008]
*** [http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=SERIES11275&type=series&coll=Portal&dl=GUIDE&CFID=26502586&CFTOKEN=20454133 2007 and earlier]
** download and install and mess around with:
*** [http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ ChucK]
*** [http://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/mini/ the miniAudicle]
*** if you are not familiar with Max/MSP, go to [http://cycling74.com their website] and check it out; not free, but there are student versions, and you may find you want to use it
** if you have a Mac laptop, please go to [http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/index.php/PLOrk_Rep this page] and do the PLOrk laptop configuration. This is a little bit of a pain, but only has to be done once, and once it is done, it will enable us to try out some of the PLOrk pieces and make new ones!

=== Week 2: 28/10/2010 ===
* try out some PLOrk classics, and check out documentation of prior performances:
** Droner
** CliX
** Crystalis?
** On The Floor?
** Network Cycler?
* thoughts about website browsing and/or readings from last session?
* what next?
* CAN WE DO next week 4/11 instead of the following week (when i'll be in Norway)?

=== Week 3: 4/11/2010 (note: only one week between this and prior meeting) ===
* continued with PLOrk classics, with some speakers
* began looking at ChucK

=== Week 4: 18/11/2010 ===
* please pick up a speaker at MMT beforehand? powerstrips? also, need to work out cabling...
** if you have any extra Macbook and can do the LOrk setup and bring it, that'd be great. i will bring 1-2 extras.
* members try their hand conducting versions of Droner and CliX (think about this beforehand a bit)
* let's also try beepsh. to download:
** go to [http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/Repository/current/pieces PLOrk pieces directory]
** download beepsh.zip
** unzip and put it in YOUR PLOrk/pieces directory
** download [http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/Repository/current/bin.zip PLOrk bin directory]
** unzip it, and replace your PLOrk/bin directory with it
** in the PLOrk/pieces/beepsh directory, double-click on "beepsh_gui"; it may ask you to confirm that you want to open it, which you should do.
** quit that; we did that just to make sure it opens ok
** in the Terminal, type "beepsh.2" which should open the beepsh client.
* some discussion about instruments, laptops, and ideas you all might have for pieces for laptop ensembles
* future Dublin Laptop Orchestra discussion?
* more ChucK?

=== Week 5: 2/12/2010 ===
* TBD
* interface day? bring in a bunch of stuff to mess with for "control"
* more ChucK
* some Wekinator?

=== Week 6: 9/12/2010 (note: only one week between this and prior meeting) ===
* TBD: dan might share some of his work in progress for Crash

== Resources ==
* [http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ ChucK]
* [http://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/mini/ the miniAudicle]
* [[PLOrk Reader]]
* [http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/Repository/current/ PLOrk Repository]
* [http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/index.php/PLOrk_Rep how to set your laptop up for LOrk activities]
* [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/stk/ Perry Cook's Synthesis Toolkit, in C++]
* [http://wekinator.cs.princeton.edu/ the Wekinator]
* [http://urmus.eecs.umich.edu/ urMus, for iPhone/iPad/MoPho dev]
* [http://momu.stanford.edu/toolkit/ Stanford mobile music dev kit]
* more...