Membership plan: Getting Started | Topics: Creative Coding
Course overview
Brian Eno once described a set of chimes being blown in the wind as an example of generative music. Adapting this philosophy of music-making to a digital setting, we can create environments where a series of musical elements can be triggered semi-randomly, akin to the blowing of wind.
What you'll learn
In this workshop you will learn to create such a system in Max/MSP, building a simple synthesised bell-like sound with variable timbre which will then be ‘played’ by a loose algorithm that you will construct. This will involve learning a form of subtractive synthesis using a bank of resonant filters, applying variable controls to both its generation and post-processing through reverb and delay, and finally using combinations of random number generators to make digital ‘wind’.
Who is this course for?
This course is for people interested in approaching generative music and subtractive synthesis.
Course content
Part 1 - Introduction to Generative Music
Part 2 - Synthesising a More Complex Tone
Part 3 - Generating Randomised Bell Textures
Part 4 - Further Randomising Timbre
Part 5 - Completing the Windchime
Part 6 - Multiple Windchimes
Part 7 - Connecting Everything Up and Playing the Chimes
Part 8 - Constructing the ‘Wind’
Part 9 - Epilogue – Happy Little Accidents
Requirements
You should be comfortable with the general workflow and data formatting in Max
Some basic knowledge of frequencies (hz) in relation to music-making would be a plus
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