Categories: All - synthesis - experimentation - noise - computers

by Keith Kothman 11 years ago

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NAfME

The evolution of computer music has been shaped significantly by the advent of personal computers, enabling sophisticated manipulations like independent changes in time and pitch. The culture of remixing, mashups, and sampling has flourished with the development of software instruments, which can either replicate traditional hardware or introduce entirely new sounds.

NAfME

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