MPG Carepackage

April 13th, 2010

SEAMUS 2010 @ St. Cloud State University in Minnesota
I just returned from several days at the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States National Conference.  In addition to hearing loads of new music, I gave a presentation on the MPG Carepackage.  This continues my efforts to get more people using this collection of patches [...]

Computer Music Finals

December 17th, 2009

Final projects by Digital Arts students came rolling in last week at Stetson University.  The videos below are by students in the Fall 2009 version of my course DIGA 461 Computer Music, where undergraduate students learn to use Max/MSP as a platform for exploring sound synthesis, audio processing and algorithmic composition.  They are required to [...]

Computer Music Finals

December 15th, 2008

During Fall 2008, I required my Computer Music students to submit a YouTube video documenting their final projects for the first time.  The course teaches students to use Max/MSP as a platform for studying fundamental computer music techniques.  Having them produce videos was a bit of an experiment, but the final results made it a success. [...]