Jean-Claude Risset

-many sliding(glissando) gestures used to simulate the flight of a plane

- composed for a play called little boy

- the play was about dropping the a-bomb and the music describes the nightmares of the main character.

Jean-Claude Risset

- Realized in Paris at IRCAM

-uses max matthews 1st program Music V

-takes sound from an earlier Risset Composition

-Gradual expansion of sound filling the spectrum from low to high

-Eventually all the mids are taken out leaving only the highs and lows

-lots of bells and chimes

Charles Dodge

- derived from Bartle's Diagrams(measurements of the earth's magnetic field)

- uses the year of 1961 for music

-vertical axis is converted to pitch and horizontal axis to duration

- all monophonic

- all diatonic

-lots of reverb

John Chowning

- 

Binary Interger

a single binary interger 0 or 1

a group of bits that can be handled simultaniously

DAC

or

D-A

ADC

or

A-D

Nyquist Theorem

Pioneer researcher at Bell Labs

developed Music V programming language

only required 3500 floppies

computer music pioneer

worked with max matthews at bell labs

established computer center at IRCAM, paris

first at bell labs

created Csound(ran MusicV on personal computers)

developed faster synthesis language

MIDI Control #

for

Modulation Wheel

MIDI Control Number for 

Foot Pedal

MIDI Control Number for

Volume

MIDI Control Number for

Pan

MIDI Control Number for

Sustain

How many different instrument sounds (“patches”) must be stored in a General MIDI synthesizer?

How many simultaneous “patches” are required to comply with General MIDI standard?

How many polyphonic voices (or notes) are required to comply with General MIDI standard?

Which MIDI channel is reserved for the drum tracks on a General MIDI synthesizer?

University of Illinois

-created a way to make computer generated music using algorithms

Not Volatile

once powered down, information will not be lost

Is Volatile

once power is lost so is the information

44100;

sets sample rate to 44.1

4410;

sets control rate to 1 every 10 samples

10;

1

sets the number of output channels to 1

digital synth

Dartmouth Digital Synthesis

David Rosenboom

&

Larry Pulansky

Mills College Center for Contemporary

-

Hierarchial Music Specification

-

Object Oriented Music Programming

Carnegie Mellon University

-

taught computers to "read" by "listening" to performers so they could sync up and play together

GROOVEsystem

-

created Music Mouse

IRCAM

-

Commercialized MAX & MAX/MSP

-

editor programs for Yamaha DX7

wrote original version of MAX while at IRCAM

-

Later added digital audio extension(MSP)

Karla Scarlett

Kurt Hebel

&

Lippold Haken

Kyma/Capybara integrated software/hardware

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digital audio workstation

-

nowits 5th version

Dr. T

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commercial music software industry