IFD:Music Interaction Programming/Schedule

Tentative Schedule

Week	Topic	Event
1	What is PureData? What is dataflow programming?
2	fundamentals of pd: interaction and music	make your first patch
3	signal generators; additive and wavetable synthesis, samplers	record your own sound and control the playback
4	midi messages and control objects; dollar signs and other PD syntax
5	OpenSoundControl OSC; controlling PD externally	interacting with your smartphone
6	what is GEM? basic video manipulation	make your own simple musical instrument using your smartphone or game controller
7	creating sub patches, abstractions and externals; video input and looper	matrices. What is a rendering chain in pd and how it works?
8	FM and AM, modulate your sounds and control video	become a VJ and use sound and movement to manipulate video
9	motion detection, matrix transformations in GEM. blob recognition and color tracking; external libraries for pattern recognition	control through gestures; smile detection
10	controlling the environment: using PD to communicate with Arduino and OSC compatible surfaces. Using UDP and TCP protocol.	examples in Unity3d, Ableton, Arduino, Reaktor, etc..
11	extended control messages. Reactivision, OpenCV and computer vision.	make your fiducial based instrument or patch
12	very short intro to the Fourier transform; the frequency spectrum, time-domain and frequency domain representations. Spectral manipulation à la metasynth	what is musical texture? spectral painting, pictures become sound and viceversa
13	granular synthesis and flocks, microstructures of sound and their interaction with video	examples of interfacing with custom applications made in Processing and superCollider
14	using particle systems, InteractiveSwarmOrchestra; Boids and cellular automata	use a cellular automata simulation in a patch
15	Collaboration and mapping: analysis of Oliver’s Silent Percussion patches	Live electronic paradigms: setting a simple server for collaboration
16	Project Discussion