TCD fall2010
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General Information
Graduate Seminar, Fall 2010 into Spring 2011
Trinity College Dublin Music Department
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
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 recent posting by Peter Kirn about laptops and performance
- and, in general, Peter's broadly inclusive but gear-oriented blog
- Weidenbaum, M. 2006. Serial Port: A Brief History of Laptop Music. NewMusicBox, fun survey.
- Cascone, K. 2003. Grain, Sequence, System: Three Levels of Reception in the Performance of Laptop Music. Contemporary Music Review 22(4): 101–104.
- Ostertag, B. 2002. Human Bodies, Computer Music. Leonardo Music Journal 12: 11–14.
- Trueman, D. 2007. Why a Laptop Orchestra? Organised Sound, 12:2.
- and an 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:
- download and install and mess around with:
- ChucK
- the miniAudicle
- if you are not familiar with Max/MSP, go to 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 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!
- Some blogs/papers to peruse/read as you find interesting:
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 PLOrk pieces directory
- download beepsh.zip
- unzip and put it in YOUR PLOrk/pieces directory
- download 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
- interface day bring in a bunch of stuff to mess with for "control"
- mapping
- intro to Wekinator
- POSTPONED to next term
Week 6: 9/12/2010 (note: only one week between this and prior meeting)
- dan will share some recent work, and get under the hood to dig into how some of it works. depending on how things go, i may also get into the piece i'm currently working on for Crash.
