TCD fall2010

General Information

Graduate Seminar, Fall 2010 into Spring 2011

Trinity College Dublin Music Department

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
• 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
• 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!
  • PLOrk Reader; lots and lots of reading relevant to computer music, performance, composition, etc...
  • Proceedings from the New Interfaces for Musical Expression:
    • 2010
    • 2009
    • 2008
    • 2007 and earlier
  • 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!

Week 2: 28/10/2010

• TBD!