21M.380 | Spring 2011 | Undergraduate

Music and Technology: Live Electronics Performance Practices

Lecture Notes

For your convenience, the course notes are provided in two formats:

  • One file (chapter) per class session, in the table below; plus these files
    • Cover & table of contents (PDF)
    • References (PDF)
  • All notes in single file, 219 pages (PDF - 7.1MB)

SES # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES
1 Foundations: Live Electronics (PDF - 1.5MB)
2 Foundations: Sounds, Signals, Samples, and Encodings

Pd Tutorial 1

(PDF)
3 Foundations: Envelopes, Filters, Modulation, and Mixing

Pd Tutorial 2

(PDF)
4 Foundations: Managing Events, Signals, and Data

Pd Tutorial 3

(PDF)
5 Workshop: Performance and Improvisation (PDF)
6 Foundations: Processing and Transforming Sounds

Pd Tutorial 4

(PDF)
7 Workshop: Performance and Improvisation (PDF)
8 Practices: The Early History of Live Electronics (PDF)
9 Practices: Extending Common Physical Controllers (PDF)
10 Workshop: Performance and Improvisation (PDF)
11 Practices: Touch Interfaces and OpenSoundControl (PDF)
12 Practices: Laptops and Laptop Orchestras (PDF)
13 Workshop: Performance and Improvisation (PDF)
14 Practices: Analog Electronics and Circuit Bending (PDF)
15 Practices: Electronics and Sensors (PDF)
16 Workshop: Performance and Improvisation (PDF)
17 Practices: Approaches to Composing Improvisations (PDF - 1.2MB)
18 Practices: Timing and Networking (PDF)
19 Workshop: Performance and Improvisation (PDF)
20 Workshop: Performance and Improvisation (PDF)
21 Practices: Novel and Custom Interfaces (PDF)
22 Workshop: Performance and Improvisation (PDF)
23 Practices: Live Coding, Live Algorithms, and Generative Techniques (PDF)
24 Class concert performance

See assignments page for video & audio recordings

(PDF)

Course Info

As Taught In
Spring 2011
Learning Resource Types
Demonstration Videos
Lecture Notes
Music
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Presentation Assignments
Programming Assignments