COSMOS 2005

Computer Music and Computer Graphics

READINGS and LISTENINGS


Readings

Digital Audio
Article explaining the basics of how computers deal with audio information, by Christopher Dobrian, UC Irvine.

"Max Getting Started", "Max Tutorials and Topics", and "Max Reference" ("Max45GettingStarted.pdf", "Max45ReferenceManual.pdf", and "Max45TutorialsAndTopics.pdf")
Introduction to the Max programming environment for multimedia, reference manual containing complete description of all the Max objects, and a set of tutorials on basic concepts of Max programming.

"MSP Reference" and "MSP Tutorials and Topics" ("MSP45ReferenceManual.pdf" and "MSP45TutorialsAndTopics.pdf")
Reference manual containing complete description of the audio objects, and a set of tutorials on basic concepts of sound synthesis and processing, demonstrating their implementation in MSP.

Listenings

oscillators16.mp3
Automated composition (program) in which sixteen sinusoidal waves slowly change in frequency and amplitude over the course of one minute. It was performed by this program.


This page was last modified July 9, 2005.
Christopher Dobrian
dobrian@uci.edu