21M.385 | Fall 2016 | Undergraduate

Interactive Music Systems

Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY Dates
1 Introduction and class overview  
2 Sound, digital audio, pyaudio, Kivy, sine waves, additive synthesis  
3 Exploration Presentation (EP) example. Lab.  
4 Audio files, sampling, looping, resampling, recording Pset 1 due
5 Pset demos. EP1. Lab.  
6 Graphics, rendering, draw primitives, colors, animation, simulation Pset 2 due
7 Pset demos. EP2. Lab.  
8 MIDI, FluidSynth, Scheduling, Metronome Pset 3 due
9 Pset demos. EP3. Lab.  
10 Harmonix Tour  
11 Input devices, controllers, sensors, Kinect, gesture tracking Pset 4 due
12 Pset demos. EP4. Lab.  
13 Music games. Fantasia: Music Evolved play session. Pset 5 due
14 Pset demos. EP5. Final project process / pitch session.  
15 Guitar Hero / Team formation party. Pset 6 due
16 EP7. Guest lecture by Ben Houge.  
17 Project proposal presentations. Pset 7 due
18 Pset demos., EP8. EP9. Project Proposal due
19 Team meetings with instructor.  
20 1st Milestone presentations. Milestone 1 due
21 Team meetings with instructor.  
22 Team meetings with instructor.  
23 2nd Milestone presentations. Milestone 2 due
24 Team meetings with instructor.  
25 Team meetings with instructor.  
26 Final project presentations, part I. Final Project due
27 Final project presentations, part II. Final Project due

Course Info

Learning Resource Types
Lecture Notes
Problem Sets
Presentation Assignments
Projects with Examples