• Investigation and discussion of students' interests, needs and expectations. It is hoped that this module provides an opportunity for students to plan their projects for the entire year and anticipate aesthetic and technical requirements here, or to investigate possible courses of action.
  
  Read through the course materials and requirements, paying particular attention to what is required in terms of assessment. Try to plan out what you might want to do and when and whether you feel you have any particular needs, interests or areas requiring additional work.
  
  Review Module handbook; plan and prepare Presentation 1, based on your earlier investigations. Your presentation, which will be marked negatively, will provide an overview of what you might attempt and achieve over the course.

Indicative Assessments

• Hardware Hacking/Circuit Bending - 10%
• MaxMSP - 10%
• SuperCollider - 10%
• Own Project - 70%

Indicative projects include:
• Algorithmic Composition;
• Instrumental composition and the interface;
• Investigating and developing novel interfaces;
• Algorithmic methods for score generation;
• Integration of technologies;
• Composing for specific media.

Schedule

• Intro to the course
• Intro to Max

• 1800-1840: MaxMSP/Jitter 1
  Performance Templates
  Performance Template Sounds (optional)
  Introductory Max Tutorials
  
• 1840-1920: Project updates
• 1920-2000: Tutorials

• A series of workshops and tutorials investigating possible activities, aesthetics, techniques and methods. While these may be significantly self-directed, should you require direction it will be provided.
  
  It may be the case that individual students or small groups of students may require specialist tuition in certain technologies.

• Intro to SuperCollider
• 01 - Simple Sound
• Presentation 1: Your own work and experience with music, technology and the media.

• MaxMSP 2
  Performance Templates
  Performance Template Sounds (optional)
  Introductory Max Tutorials
• Intro to Hardware Hacking
• Presentation 2: Your own work and experience with music, technology and the media.

• 1800-1840: SuperCollider 2
  
  
• SC Algorithm Tutor
  • 01 - Simple Sound
  • 02 - Tasks
  • 03 - Functions
  • 04 - Patterns
  • 05 - Scheduling
  • 06 - Synthesis
  • 07 - Diffusion
  • All the above in one file
    
    
  • SC Algorithmic Material via GUI [28KB]
  
  
• Presentation 3

• Presentation 4
• 1800-1840: SuperCollider 3
• SC Algorithms with GUI
• 1840-1920: Project updates
• 1920-2000: Tutorials

• Presentation 5
• 1800-1840: MaxMSP/Jitter 2:
• Intro to Algorithms in MaxMSP [80KB]
• 1840-1920: Project updates
• 1920-2000: Tutorials

• Presentation 6
• 1800-1840: MaxMSP/Jitter 3
• 1840-1920: Project updates
• 1920-2000: Tutorials

• http://rhoadley.net/courses/tech_resources/jitter/tasks/image2sound01.php
• http://rhoadley.net/courses/tech_resources/jitter/tasks/image2sound02.php
• http://rhoadley.net/courses/tech_resources/jitter/tasks/image2sound03.php
• http://rhoadley.net/courses/tech_resources/jitter/tasks/image2sound04.php
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• http://rhoadley.net/courses/tech_resources/jitter/examples/VIDEO-AUDIO-VIDEO/

• Individual and Small Group Tutorials

• Finalisation of all Projects (week 12) Presentations 3