Spring, 2012 • Assignments
Assignment is due on specified date
Apr 11
Individual
written reports and team evaluation due Wed before 12:00 noon by email.
Refer
to reports in course pack for what they should include: design goals, parts
used, circuit modifications, and functionality of the Max patch and Reason
rack. Also include (this will be kept confidential) a summary of which team
members did which tasks, and how well they fulfilled their roles. Also include
whether you think there were skills under-represented in your group.
Read: in course pack, report on M*A*R*T*H*A
Apr 2
Read: Reason Operation Manual chaps 35, 37
Mar 26
Read these
articles from NIME 2005: Blaine, Singer, Bardos, Cook, Dannenberg, Funk, Melo,
Allen
If you're not experienced
with a soldering iron, take a look at this.
Mar 14
Finalize project proposal. Generate shopping list.
Mar 11-12
Start on proposal for first
project. Assign tasks, set a meeting time before next class.
Designate one person to write it up and Email it to the instructor by 6
pm Sunday.
Midterm exam is due Monday in class.
Mar 7
Read: in course pack: "The
griDJ MIDI grid system"
online: projectreportsS07/drumpantsfein.doc
projectreportsS05/SchwinnophoneWolinski.doc
projectreportsS05/LaserharpSimmons.doc
View these videos: projectreportsS04/washboardfinalqt.mov
projectreportsS05/laserharp.mov
projectreportsS06/CelloWeb.mov
projectreportsS08/MusicStick2.mov
Mar 5
Look at: Panasonic Switches catalog (look at all 3 types), http://www.panasonic-electric-works.cz/pewcz/en/html/switches.php
Read: Wiimote article http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct08/articles/wiimote.htm
Read: Article on Sharp IR sensors: http://www.acroname.com/robotics/info/articles/sharp/sharp.html
Read: paper on capacitive sensing: AN-854.pdf
Written assignment: Go through Gesture/sensor
list posted on site. Think of sensors
for each movement. Fill in the list and e-mail it to the instructor before 9
pm, Sunday March 4.
Lab: Do Max Tutorial: Data: List Processing (long!)
Lab: do a more complex Max patch.
Feb 29
Read sensorsandcircuits.pdf, through page 10. If you're an electrical
engineer, read up to page 24.
Read Roberto Aimi's PowerPoint presentation, sensors4music2008.ppt.htm
Read article on variable resistors
Lab: Do Max Tutorials Basics: Encapsulation, Remote Messaging, Timing, Controlling Data Flow
Your lab assignment for next Monday (March 5) is to do a more complex Max patch.
Feb 27
Read: Lehrman report on NIME05 for Sound On Sound magazine
Lab: Do
Max Tutorials (an alias for them is on each desktop): Basics: "Hello" through "Keyboard & Mouse
input"; MIDI: "Basics", "Note Management", "Parsing"
Do not Save over Tutorial patches!! Use Save As... if you want to save them.
Lab: Create an original Max patch using Trigger Finger or one of the keyboards,
linked to Reason.
Feb 15
Read: Playing
Electronics with Mallets: Extending the Gestural Possibilities (pdf)
Read: In course pack, Banging Out the Bits, from last paragraph
on p. 102 (“Nearfield
Multimedia”) to 3rd paragraph on p. 104 (stop at “Roland”)
Lab (for Feb 22): do something with Trigger Finger and at least two Reason modules.
Feb 13
Lab: Create an original patch with NN19
Read: in course pack, “Sample Solutions”, “Samplers
Go Soft”
Read: Reason Operation Manual Chapter
28 (on NN-19)
Feb 6
Read in course pack:
article on Samchillian
for Feb 8:
Lab: Create an original Reason/Subtractor patch for keyboard. Save
on the computer.
Read Reason docs Getting Started chapter 3 and Operation
manual chapter
19.
Feb 1
Read: "What Is MIDI"
(buy it at the music office!)
Read in course pack: "Synth School" article in course pack.
Jan 30
Fill in this table of physical gestures. Include at least three gestures for each body part category. For each physical gesture list a musical gesture (or more than one) in common use, and a different musical gesture that you can imagine. Email your document to the instructor before 9 pm, Sunday, Jan 29!
Read in course pack:
•
Profile: Michel Waisvisz
• EM article "The Outer Limits" - it's long!
• Wilkinson p 50-60 (MIDI) in course pack (even if you took Music 64 or
65)
Jan 25
Read in course pack: