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Concentrating on aspects of technology that enable live performance and audio manipulation, this module is designed to provide the knowledge and opportunity for students to create their own performances and sonic installations. Students will be expected to actively pursue their own opportunities for performance/exhibition. Module materials will be based around the type of electronic components used for a variety of methods of controlling hardware and software: sensors (for example, those used in game controllers); and, chips and boards for the creation, manipulation and storage of sound. Of equal importance will be the implementation of the crucial and complex links between technology, performers, electronic sound and the audience. Students will gain experience through a series of tasks and projects culminating in a final performance or exhibition. Students will submit their collected exercises in a portfolio, accompanied by audio-visual documentation as necessary and a brief critical evaluation, which should reference the current literature on sensor technology. This critical evaluation should place the student's work in the context of current trends in sensor technology as well as providing a basis for the student's own criteria and judgement. A materials charge may apply for this module.

1. Investigate the effect of the user interface (software and hardware, including acoustic instruments) on musical performance.
2. Review, test and use a variety of hardware/software resources.
3. Design, implement and perform using custom hardware and software.

1. 1. Analyse particular technical requirements (for instance, choose a particular sensor or configuration of sensors to achieve a musical goal); design and implement solutions for those requirements;
2. 2. Transform abstract data and concepts towards a given purpose and design novel solutions Ð for instance capturing the data in particular movements and translating this into musical gestures;
3. 3. Be confident and flexible in identifying and defining complex problems and the application of appropriate knowledge, tools/methods to their solution;
4. 4. Operate in complex and unpredictable contexts, such as a musical performance, requiring selection and application from a wide range of innovative or standard techniques.

• Banzi, M., (2009), Getting Started with Arduino, North Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media Inc.
• Bishop, C. (2005) Installation Art, London: Tate Publishing
• Broadhurst, S. and J. Machon (2006). Performance and technology : practices of virtual embodiment and interactivity. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Broadhurst, S. (2007). Digital practices : aesthetic and neuroesthetic approaches to performance and technology. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Dale D., ed. (2005-present) Make volumes 10-present: Technology on your time, North Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media Inc.
• Emmerson, S. (2000) Music, Electronic Media and Culture, Kent : Ashgate
• Igoe, T., (2007), Making Things Talk, North Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media Inc.
• Miranda, E. R. (2006) New digital musical instruments: control and interaction beyond the keyboard, Middleton: A-R Editions
• O'Sullivan, D. & T. Igoe, eds. (2004) Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers, London: Premier Press
• Rosenthal, M. (2003) Understanding Installation Art, London: Prestel

• Cook, Perry R, 1999, Music, cognition, and computerized sound: an introduction to psychoacoustics, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press)
• Eduardo Miranda, 2001, Composing Music with Computers
• Curtis Roads, 1996, Computer Music Tutorial, Part 5

• Zimoun

• 10% for non-performance without good reason;
• 10% for non-submission of a recording of you performing live;
• Failure to submit either of the above will result in failure of the module.

All assignments should be submitted to the i-centre on Thursday 20th December 2012

- Assessments
- Introduction to Sensor Technology

Different Boards
Arduino - http://www.arduino.cc/
Wiring - http://www.wiring.org.co/
USB Create - http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~dano/CUI/
Gainer - http://gainer.cc/

Sensor Technology Materials List

If you haven't taken Circuit Bending 
(formerly Performance Technology)
You might want to go through a few things...
- Getting Started
- The Seven Basic Rules of Hacking
- How to Solder

- List of sensors (Wikipedia)

Task 1
 - "Hello world!"
task 1 due: Thursday 20th December 2012
task 1 weighting: 0%

task summary | VLE

Sensor walk: walk around your neighborhood, or a different one. 
Take a count of every interaction with a sensor you see. 
These might include:
- Pushbuttons on an ATM
- motion sensors on doors, taps, etc.
- Floor mats
- Cameras
Take pictures or video as appropriate, of the most interesting ones.

Prepare to take us through what you think is happening during next week's class.

Reading
 Read the M.Banzi 'Arduino Getting Started', it will help you to understand the
- basics of the Arduino hardware and software
- basics of electricity (definitely worth reading from p.25)

Some revision from circuit bending
- Ghazala, Reed, (2005) 
Circuit-bending: build your own alien instruments, 
Indianapoli: Wiley Publishing) 
- Chapters 1 and 2

- Collins, Nicolas, (2006) 
Handmade electronic music: the art of hardware hacking 
New York: Routledge 
- Chapters 1 and 2

Focus
- Basic Electricity
- Make: Electronics

- Interactive Science Simulations
- Circuit Construction Lab
- Other resources: Fritzing, Macspice, Yenka

notes

Task 2
 - Vibrating a piezo
task 2 due: Thursday 20th December 2012
task 2 weighting: 10%

task summary | VLE

Focus
- Breadboarding:
-- Intro on Sparkfun
-- Tom Igoe Tutorial/Site
-- Intro to Breadboarding [1MB pdf]
-- Intro to Breadboarding [505 KB pdf]
-- Intro to the Arduino [254KB pdf]

- Using a Piezo disc to make sounds
- Give the sounds a duration
- Generate and Modulate Pulses
- Notes Over the Serial Port with Duration Controlled by a Potentiometer
- Use the Arduino Board with Max (preview)

notes

Task 3
 - Connecting the Arduino, MaxMSP and SuperCollider
task 3 due: Thursday 20th December 2012
task 3 weighting: 10%

task summary | VLE

Focus
- Group Design Project
- Connecting Arduino to Breadboard
- Ladyada Arduino Tutorials

notes

Task 4
 - Group design project
task 4 due: Thursday 20th December 2012
task 4 weighting: 0%

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Multimeter
Breadboard
- Presentation Chooser if necessary v001
- Group Design Project Presentations

Task 4
 - Group design project
task 4 due: Thursday 20th December 2012
task 4 weighting: 0%

task summary | VLE

- Auduino
- Arduino Audio 1
- You might also want to look at the Daisybell project.
- Audio on the Arduino pages
- Audio on the Arduino page 1

notes

Task 5
 - Auduino
task 5 due: Thursday 20th December 2012
task 5 weighting: 10%

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- No lecture slot
- Tutorials

notes

No task

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- Arduinos, Motors and Servos
Make video connecting Arduino to a servo
- Using triggers in MaxMSP and SuperCollider

notes

Task 6
 - Triggering and modulating events
task 6 due: Thursday 20th December 2012
task 6 weighting: 0%

task summary | VLE

- Wireless communication
- Using the internet
- WritingToArduino

notes

Task 7
 - Investigating sensors
task 7 due: Thursday 20th December 2012
task 7 weighting: 0%

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- Multiplexing
- Connecting to Processing

Task 8
 - Servos
task 8 due: Thursday 20th December 2012
task 8 weighting: 10%

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- Tutorials and Individual Project Discussions

- Performances

• Heinrich K. Taube, 2004, Notes from the Metalevel: Introduction to Algorithmic Music Composition, (Swets & Zeitlinger)
• Cook, Perry R, 1999, Music, cognition, and computerized sound: an introduction to psychoacoustics, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press)
• Eduardo Miranda, 2001, Composing Music with Computers
• Curtis Roads, 1996, Computer Music Tutorial, Part 5