GMU:Dataflow/dataflow, network

syllabus

dataflow, network

• intro
• syllabus
• literature overview
• pd, pd-extended
• OSC protocol
• practical part: pd-extended installation and objects (bang, toggle, math, OSC)
• setting up a network
• homework: ideas for a networked patch

synthesizer

• overview ideas and homework
• sound. basics (pitch, waves, oscillators, volume, frequency)
• objects (select, slider, metro, dsp control, canvas/array, tabread/tabwrite)
• setting up a network
• homework: sound control over network/local patches

gem, webcam

• overview ideas and homework
• graphics, video, mixer
• objects (gemhead, gemwin)
• setting up a network
• homework: visuals control over network/local patches

software (pd, processing, max/msp)

• overview ideas and homework
• overview software, installation of pd
• bridging software
• setting up a network
• homework: set up a communication platform between different software

mobmuplat (iOS, Android)

• overview ideas and homework
• mobmuplat
• bridging devices
• setting up a network
• homework: set up a communication platform between different devices

arduino (photo sensor)

• overview ideas and homework
• Arduino
• bridging devices, forms (arduino)
• setting up a network
• homework: set up a communication platform between sensors and patch

Performance platform DBL

• overview ideas and homework
• intro to performance platform and software
• bridging performance platform, software and pd
• setting up a network
• homework: work on individual ideas and patches

Actor network

• overview ideas and homework
• Bruno Latour
• bridging individual patches into the network
• further development of individual patches

literature overview

• Bang, 2006, © by pd-graz Verein zur Förderung der Open Source Software Pure Data

// historical overview, general notes, general media theory. This is if you do not want to become a pd patcher

• Designing Sound, Andy Farnell

// sound theory including physics, maths and psychology. Then - part on practice with Pd. For advanced users

• Multimedia Programming with Pure Data, Bryan WC Chung

// detailed step by step including 2d, 3d, and configuring Arduino

• Programming Sound with Pure Data, Tony Hillerson

// digital sound design and effects. with some knowledge about sound. Step by Step sound design with Pd

• The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music, Miller Puckette

// Author of Pd, learning how to use a general-purpose computer music environment. With sound theory for advanced patcher.

• PURE DATA

// Step by step basics, sound, graphics, sensors

• A Young Person's Guide to the Principles of Music Synthesis, Beau Sievers

// basics of sound

pd, pd-extended

• Pd-extended

https://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended

• Pd

http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.html