- Layouts
- Speaker layouts: cinematic vs equilateral
- Venue layouts: proscenium vs black box
- Sound and light operator positions
Category Archives: Electronic Composition
How to begin analyzing a work of audiovisual art
Ultimately, you’ll be considering what decisions each artist made in creating his or her work. We call these principles of composition. For example, you could discuss:
Aesthetics of Technology-Based Performance
Works that Use Computer Vision
PerfTech students, Musical Blocks
PERF 318 Commission Request Form
Some Early Algorithmic Compositions
Lejaren Hiller, Illiac Suite (1957)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (or maybe it was really Josef Haydn… and other people too), Muzikalisches Würfelspiel (c. 1780)
New Interfaces for Musical Expression
For more, search “NIME”
Musical Examples of These Synthesis Approaches
Creator John Chowning (Stanford Univesity) on his creation of FM synthesis
Early FM synthesis innovator Jean-Claude Risset, Mutations (1969) with early digital video by Lillian F. Schwartz (1973), both while working at Bell Labs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKGrz4AMbqk
Controllers and Synthesizers
I’ll be travelling during all of week 5, so we won’t meet in person. Use class time strategically. You might:
- to start developing, investigating, and experimenting with ideas for your final project
- get ahead in other classes to make more time for this class when we resume meetings, or
- work on that week’s assignment, which is optional, but which will be very helpful in making full and expressive performances in future assignments. The assignment is on eCampus, and the following videos walk you through the new material:
WaveDrag Example Performance
This video will give you some ideas of the musical ideas you can create with WaveDrag. This particular version uses two channels, controlled by Wiimotes instead of the mouse and keyboard, and it’s meant to be one part in a 4-piece ensemble, so it’s a bit fuller than you’ll be able to achieve at a times and too sparse at other times, but you might still find some licks you can borrow for your assignment—I’m using one of the same sounds you are!