Class began with you each noting your “tech firsts”— I began the historical overview with a slide featuring the gigantic Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC), the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during WWII by the U.S.— Then I went back in time to the early 1800s with the invention of the Jacquard […]
Response to Assignment 1
Draft your response in a word editor of your choice, in order to check grammar, spelling, and so forth, along with the word count. To submit it, click on the title of this post to go to the post page, scroll down to the “Leave a Reply” section, and copy your response to Assignment #1 […]
Class 30- WED 12/20
In our final class today, we looked at, and talked about, your Project 4 versions of the Max patches that correspond with video Tutorial 5 or a different additive synth patch that you referenced. I also showed the extra set of Max patches and talked about what you can do with those, as continued exploration of […]
Response for Project 4
Post your written portion of Project 4 (500-1000 words) as a comment to this post. (Remember to submit the Max patch files as DMs via Slack.)
Class 25, Mon 11/30
The Music Technology concentration provides you with skills in the development of musical interfaces and applications. You’ll learn systems for real-time signal processing and audio scheduling. These skills can be used for installations, live performance, video games (sound design), and the web, as well as contemporary music production systems. Of the 5 core Music Tech […]
Class 24-WED 12/1
The Project 3 physical computing concept presentations past student projects: Solus Sneakers, a wearable tech product featuring a sneaker with soles that can adjust to different terrains. The group conceived of three sensors/inputs with two outputs, with the sneaker self-powered by a piezoelectric transducer. I gave in-class feedback on considering a conceptual sensor that could detect ground […]
Response to Assignment 9
Submit your written response to the reading linked to in Assignment 9 as a comment on this post before the due date and time indicated on the Assignments page. This will give you a very helpful background on the Max/MSP software that we’ll be using during the Music Tech module.
Class 20- Mon 11/17
We started class with a discussion of “IoT‘ which stands for “Internet of Things“—a term used to describe the growing interconnected network of smart devices. Here’s a one-minute video from November 2018 that named IoT and AI as “The Third and Fourth Industrial Revolution”— Pundits picked up these terms when trying to explain IoT, for […]
Class 19 Physical Computing Intro-MON 11/15
Today marked the beginning of the Physical Computing module. We can think of physical computing as sensing and controlling the physical world through hardware and software, or connecting your digital world, and the capabilities of computing, with your analogue physical reality, through interactive systems. And at the center of physical computing, we want to be thinking about […]
Response to Assignment 8
Submit your written response to Assignment 8 (one response, 500-1000 words) referencing all three articles, as described in the assignment PDF) as a comment on this post before the deadline date and time indicated on the Assignments page. As always, adding your opinions, thoughts, and questions, and mentioning other relevant examples you know of, elevates the […]
