IFD:Music Interaction Programming

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Lecturer(s): Rodrigo Diaz
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS
Date: Wednesday 17:00 (Schedule TBD)
Venue: Marienstraße 7b, Room 105

Description

This course is designed to enable students to produce and program musical interaction.
Through creative tasks, readings and hands-on exercises the course will explore the different approaches for music interaction using PureData.

The main objectives of the course are:

1. To understand the basic principles of PureData audio/video programming.
2. To understand the different approaches to produce interactive musical environments.
3. To be able to deconstruct and reconstruct pieces of media art and interactive installations.

Topics

All the topics will by presented using Pure Data and in an introductory manner.

Digital Signal Processing
GEM and ComputerVision
Communication Protocols (OSC, Serial, TCP/IP...)
Scoring for Live Electronic and Computer Music Theory

Required Materials

Computer (laptop with integrated web cam).
A game controller (ps3 controller, wii mote, etc) or a smartphone.*
Arduino.*

• Optional but strongly suggested

Registration

Send your name and short description (study program, matriculation number, and interests) to rodrigo.diaz@uni-weimar.de

Schedule and Assignments

TBD