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NO Electronic Music Collective meeting on Wednesday

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I will be out of town on Wednesday and won’t be able to host the Electronic Music Collective meeting at the Crafts Center from 5:30 to 6:30. I am copying the director George to give him a heads up. You are more than welcome to meet anyway.
When I was in 306, I saved a number of bookmarks when researching how to create my composition. Among my interests were microtonality and just intonation, though I ended up using PureData in a fairly straightforward way


Here is a link to my MUS306 & PureData bookmarks :
Here are all the links that I collected tagged “MUS306”
A favorite book I discovered while researching my project is
Earth Sound, Earth Signal by Douglas Kahn a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts
In my opinion, a fantastic book. The library has a copy.
I’ll provide an update on the next meeting ASAP.

 

November 4th Meeting – 5:30 to 6:30

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Date : Wednesday, October 28
Time : 5:30 – 6:30
Location : NCSU Crafts Center, Room 139

Sonic Pi and Pure Data on the Raspberry Pi 2

The Raspberry Pi 2 is an excellent, inexpensive platform for music experiments. The Raspbian distribution comes with Sonic Pi installed. The L2ork distribution of PureData has been ported to the Raspberry Pi. I will be demoing both of these programs.

Also, bring any questions about your projects and lets see if we can solve them.

October 28th Meeting – 5:30 to 6:30

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Date : Wednesday, October 28
Time : 5:30 – 6:30
Location : NCSU Crafts Center, Room 139

An overview of Pure Data, as described on the Pd home page :

“Pd is an open-source visual programming language. Pd enables musicians, visual artists, performers, researchers, and developers to create software graphically, without writing lines of code. Pd is used to process and generate sound, video, 2D/3D graphics, and interface sensors, input devices, and MIDI. Pd can easily work over local and remote networks to integrate wearable technology, motor systems, lighting rigs, and other equipment. Pd is suitable for learning basic multimedia processing and visual programming methods as well as for realizing complex systems for large-scale projects.

I will be covering :

  • Installation of Pd
  • Testing the installation
  • Basics of Pd
  • Running some simple scripts
  • Connecting to MIDI devices : virtual and physical
  • Communicating with other devices over OSC (Open Sound Control)

Bring your computers and your questions. Thanks!