NAfME
COMPUTER MUSIC

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

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

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

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

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