MUAT 3021 Interactive Music
The art and practice of creating interactive music systems is studied. Interactive music involves music performance with a computerized and/or technological component. We study the development from historical precedents (such as the Synchronisms series by Mario Davidovsky--instruments with reel to reel tape) and to the more recent innovations of Todd Machover and others in the area of hyper-instruments and real time control of computer generated sound and image. Using computer music programs such as MaxMSP/Jitter, Supercollider and Ableton Live, students create working interactive music systems. Special emphasis will be placed on the transmission of information (MIDI and audio) between instruments and computer. Video and other digital media components, and their connection to interactive music systems will also be studied.