Digital Music Programming

Course Outline

• MIDI
• MIDI Hardware and setup
• The MIDI language
•  Max, part 1
• Max History
• Max Basics
•  Midterm exam
•  Max part 2 Max and MSP
•  Max part 3: Max and multimedia: Jitter
•  Max part 4: Advanced projects
•   Final Exam

Assignments

• Assignment 1: September 3, 2009:
  • Send the instructor an email requesting placement on the ccm mailing list
• Assignment 2: September 15, 2009:
  • Read the MIDI Specification, here and here.
  • Read "Overview" in the Max: Getting Started manual
  • Complete the first 10 Max Tutorials
  • Build a MIDI monitor patch thhat displays all channel voice messages
• Assignment 3: September 24, 2009:
  • Complete Max Tutorials 11-20.
  • Create a Random Music Generator that modifies its own behavior over time. Try to make it as "musical" as possible.
• Assignment 4: October 8, 2008:
  • Complete MSP Tutorials 1-10.
  • Write an MSP patch that can either
    • 1) play back multiple soundfiles, either from a menu or a coll. It can choose randomly, sequentially, or by any method you choose. or
    • 2) Record and play back sounds from buffers.
• Assignment 5 : November 5, 2008:
  • Complete MSP Tutorials 11-20
  • Create an MSP patch that allows the user process an input signal in three different ways. Make switching or crossfading between them easy and automated