PIMA 7741G Interactive Media Programming: Classes 1-4

Reading: Real Life Magazine Music For Plants. article

Lab:

Using Audacity and the Freesound Project create a short (1 min) stereo (2 channel) audio piece with one found sample and one live recording.

This piece should be a response to the assigned reading.

Link to Audacity Lab PDF.

Assignment:

Create a Class Weblog or a page on your existing site.

This is a link to Ryan's Example Weblog 7741 Page.

Post your Week 1 Lab audio to your personal weblogs, send link to this weblog to the class instructors.

For Class 3
Readings and Materials included with lesson files

Read:

Pages 1-8 of Juan P. Bello's ‘max-fundamentals.pdf’

Tom Igoe's Making Interactive Art: “set-the-stage-shutup-and-listen.pdf”

Lab:

7741-class2-intro-to-max.pdf 7741-class2-play a soundfile.pdf

Videos:
7741-hello-world.mp4 -a short video introducing the Max Console

7741-message-ordering.mp4 -a short video on the Max Signal Flow

7741-sound-player.mp4  - a short video on how to play audio in Max

Assignment:

Use Max to play your audio sample (mp3,.aiff, .wav) that you made for the Class 1 assignment.
Do a screen capture of your working max patch (for more information on how to do a screen capture video with Quicktime please find the PDF in the lesson files)
Post video of your working Max patch to your weblog. Assignments due by 9/9/2020.

TOPIC: Max and Live Audio

Download link for Class 3 Files

Lesson: The Microphone, Recording & Effects

• the Max adc~ object and ezdac~ object

• meter~ object

• Interactivity and responding to the live microphone

• Comparator objects: > == <

• Recording audio: sfrecord~

• Beap (pre-made audio effects)

Reading:

Potemkin AI

 Review the '7741-important_Max_documentation.pdf' found in your class lesson files.

Labs for you to do:
    •    Use sfrecord~ to make a live recording from your microphone, refer to the class PDF Lessons for more information.
    •    BEAP: follow the Beap tutorial and use the included Max Patches to make real-time audio effects.
    •    Do you like BEAP, here is a link to great Max tutorials, in Max 2 we will take a deeper dive!
 Advanced:
    •    Try the togedge and select objects! Use the 'togedge.maxpat' included in the class files. The 'bass.aiff' sound file is triggered when you clap your hands (using headphones!) note: the sound file  "bass.aiff" is included in the Max Program.  Try this with a short audio sample that you create. Now try it with ‘select.maxpat’ to trigger it each time the threshold is triggered.

Assignment for you to upload to your weblog:
Use Max to create a short (1 min) stereo (2 channel) audio piece. Use the same model that we followed for Assignment 1: ONE pre-existing sound file and ONE live input. You may re-create your first project or do something new.
Post a screen-shot of your final patcher
Post an mp3 recording of this live performance (please use sfrecord~).
 

TOPIC: Generating Audio With Max

Lesson: Making Music with Max & Word Problems
Class and Lab Files: Link to Download Class 4 Lesson Files

New Objects:
    •    Loadbang: Patcher Initialization
    •    Select: Logic Control
    •    Key: Human Interfacing
    •    Cycle~ Make an audio wave
    

Audio Signal Overview 

 
Word Problems and Work Time

Read:

The Max Patcher Inspector

Max Key Mapping

Max Messages and Structures PDF (pages 1-14)

Lab: Do the Word Problems From Class on your own. Repeat as necessary.

Assignment: Make a Keyboard Controlled Sampler! This Patch plays 5 different audio samples using the Q W E R T Keys of your keyboard. Each audio is set to LOOP when played. Pressing the Q W E R T keys Starts and Stops the audio. Volume should be initialized and audio files should be loaded on Patcher Startup.

Advanced: Add your Microphone and a Beap Effect to the Sampler

Please post screen-capture video of you operating your sampler to your weblogs.