Creative Coding
Sonification with Max: Turning Data into Sound
– Introduction to using Max/MSP for data sonification – Importing data files (specifically CSV files) – Exploring different musical possibilities using data – Start incorporating data sonification in your projects
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8. Exploring Data Sonification through Ambient Music
Course overview
- Introduction to using Max/MSP for data sonification
- Importing data files (specifically CSV files)
- Exploring different musical possibilities using data
- Start incorporating data sonification in your projects
- Using data from a variety of sources (planet movements, weather patterns, animal migration)
Learning outcomes
Learning how to manipulate data points and turn them into musical events and sounds
Gaining an understanding of the different musical possibilities when working with data sonification
Having the skills and knowledge necessary to start working with data sonification on your own
Who is this course for?
- • Musicians and sound artists with an interest in sonification
- • Creative coders who want to learn about processing data
Requirements
- • Basic music theory skills desirable, but not necessary
- • A working PC, Laptop, iMac or MacBook
- • Access to a copy of Max 8 (i.e. trial or full license)
Course content
Sonification with Max: Turning Data into Sound
8 videos, 1 resource
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Sonification with Max: Turning Data into Sound
8 videos, 1 resource
- Course Materials
1. Introduction
Checking access...2. Importing C++ SV files into Max using Text Object
Checking access...3. Maximizing Data Processing with Thresh and Unpack Objects
Checking access...4. Exploring the Creative Side of Data Sonification
Checking access...5. Dynamic Random Value Generation in Max MSP
Checking access...6. Exploring Sonification Techniques: Generating Single Sound Events from Data
Checking access...7. Weather Prediction with Oscillators in Max
Checking access...8. Exploring Data Sonification through Ambient Music
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Instructors
Umut Eldem
Umut Eldem is a composer, pianist, and researcher. His musical works and research focus on the exploration of synaesthesia as an artistic medium. He has given lectures on his research of synaesthesia, and had his audiovisual works and installations combining sound and colours presented in Belgium, Turkey, Romania, Russia, and Luxembourg. Umut Eldem is currently a PhD researcher at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, and musical director of the theatre collective Mixed & United. He gives lessons and workshops on music history, musical analysis, and audiovisual design. He is also the keyboardist of the bands Starblind = Earthbound and Transport Aerian. His current PhD research entitled ‘The Hearing Glass: Synaesthetic Correspondences in The Musical Practice’ intends to take the results of his previous research and develop them into an inter-sensory theory of audiovisual art.