NAfME
COMPUTER MUSIC
Understanding the Aesthetics
Historical Origins
Questions about what is music
(musical sounds, noise, etc.)
Varese
Cage
Politics of Noise
Jacques Attali
Pop/Rock and other art
forms much more accepting
Frank Zappa
Sonic Youth
Stomp
Experimentation
acoustic
percussion music
Klangfarben
extended techniques
machines
sound production
oscillators, etc.
sound manipulation
tape recorders
French
Sound Texture, Color
Musique Concrete
Sampled sounds
opposite of "abstract" music
The sound object
German
Increasing Serialization
of Musical Parameters
Synthesis
painting
sculpture
Merger
It's a useful oversimplification
Modern Usage
Electric Instruments
Modern Recording Studio
Computers
musique concrete
more sophisticated manipulations
time and pitch can be
changed independently
software instruments
sometimes modeled after
early hardward instruments
sometimes entirely new
remixing/mashups/
sampling culture
live performance
Tools
Audio Editors
Audacity (cross platform, free)
Adobe Audition (Creative Suite)
DAWs
Pro Tools
Digital Performer
Ableton Live
Reaper
Software Synthesizers
Reason
Native Instruments (Komplete)
Audio Processing Software
SoundHack
Cecilia
Do Everything Software
Max (MSP, Jitter)
pd
AudioMulch
SuperCollider
Portable Recorders
Tablet/Smartphone
Resources
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
Hosken: Introduction to Music Technology
OHM: Early Gurus of Electonic Music
(3 CD set)
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
Howell: Experimental and Electronic Music
SoundCloud
teachingmusic.keithkothman.com
K-12 Curricular Ideas
Don't Assume Students Know
Everything About Tech
General Music
(all grades)
Students can actually make music
(with or w/out prior music performance training)
Experiemental or
popular
Alex Ruthmann
As Part of Performance
(all grades)
Recording
Live Processing
Improvisation
Bridging the Gap
with Science
Computer programming
poetic computing
visual programming languages
Max, pd, AudioMulch
text programming languages
SuperCollider
Processing
Human Computer
Interface (HCI)
robotics
new instruments for
musical expression
NIME
analog to digital sensors
Maker Culture
(dorkbot, circuit bending, etc)
Physics
(Acoustics)
Psychology
Arts and Humanities
Visual Art/Video
Theater
Digital Humanities
interactive storytelling
anthropology
history
games/gaming
Law/Politics/Culture
Copyright
Lawrence Lessig
Creative Commons
Cory Doctorow
Listening
Jason Bolte
Noises Everywhere
Richard Karpen
Mass
Brian Eno
Unfamiliar Wind
Fullness of Wind
Paul Lansky
smalltalk
Six Fantasies on a Poem of Thomas Campion
Keith Kothman
interludes
bent metal
sometimes when I'm awake
Richard Devine
Plonked Spectral