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