Music and Technology: Live Electronics Performance Practices

As taught in: Spring 2011

A photo of laptop computer, mixing board, iPod, two joystick controllers and several other electronic music devices arranged on a tabletop.

Christopher Ariza's KIOKU performance system, libOX — a modular Max/MSP system with a large number of controllers. (Photo by Christopher Ariza.)

Instructors:

Prof. Christopher Ariza

MIT Course Number:

21M.380

Level:

Undergraduate

Course Features

Demonstration - video
Music - audio
Lecture notes
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Course Description

This course is a creative, hands-on exploration of contemporary and historical approaches to live electronics performance and improvisation, including basic analog instrument design, computer synthesis programming, and hardware and software interface design.