Assignment #3 : First Study in Difficult Software

Working in groups, pick a computer music composition or synthesis program from one of the following:

• Csound
• Supercollider
• Jsyn/JMSL/Wire
• AudioMulch
• PD
• STK
• MatLab

Specifically, you are to do the following

• break up into groups of 3 students each
• learn the program in as much detail as you can, as a group, taking notes on the various features, idiosyncracies, interests, problems of the program
• produce a short study in the program, as a group which:
• is musically, conceptually interesting
• gives you a basic understanding of how to use the program
• gets you ready to do, individually, a more complicated and robust final project
• the study be a soundfile (aiff, regular format for the class), but we want documentation (code, comments, etc). you can drop that soundfile in the dropbox for the third assignment
• in class, one group for each program will demonstrate the program for us, coherently, in a planned fashion, as if you're trying to teach it in, say, 30 minutes

Groups: Pick your own or I'll help

Where to find programs: Go to our software links page.

Directions to hand in your sound files (1 piece per group)
(from Bruno)
 

• Make sure you've got the right file format (44100 kHz, 16 bit, stereo, AIFF)
• Sound file name: use the full name of ONE of the members of the group (Firstname + underscore + Lastname). It's all we need, since we have the list of all groups. Example with my name:
• Bruno_Ruviaro.aif
• Upload it to the cc11_Dropbox Assignment 3 (Mac users: remember, use Fetch). Make sure you're uploading it to the Dropbox, and NOT to the cc11 home directory.
host: raven.dartmouth.edu
username: cc11
password: leeds
• If you have any trouble, blitz me and/or Larry in a reasonable time (this means: BEFORE 7:24pm on Monday evening, May 12). And please do not get desperate and send me any 20Mbytes files using blitzmail!