The Midiometer
This post is part of a series of notes and exercises for a summer camp on making musical instruments with Arduino and Pure Data. Waves vs. MIDI When we generate sound by altering the frequencies of waves, we are operating at a pretty low level. Most musicians don’t think about physical laws like we have […]
The Tiangle, Part II
This post is part of a series of notes and exercises for a summer camp on making musical instruments with Arduino and Pure Data. We have an Arduino setup that allows the player to crank a knob to produce numbers on the serial port. Now it’s time to add the music. In this exercise, we […]
The Tiangle, Part I
This post is part of a series of notes and exercises for a summer camp on making musical instruments with Arduino and Pure Data. Our First Instrument It’s time to make our first instrument: the tiangle (sic). The tiangle will use a piece of hardware called a potentiometer, which is a knob that controls how […]
Seeing Waveforms
This post is part of a series of notes and exercises for a summer camp on making musical instruments with Arduino and Pure Data. Author Christopher Paul Curtis writes in Elijah of Buxton, “Believe some to none of what you hear and only half of what you see.” This wisdom applies equally well to gossip […]
Oscillating
This post is part of a series of notes and exercises for a summer camp on making musical instruments with Arduino and Pure Data. The very first thing we must do this week is make noise. We’ll create this patch in Pure Data to generate a single frequency: Follow these steps to produce your patch: […]
SCSI 2019: Research Project Ideas
As part of SCSI, you will work with another individual to complete a research project. We can define research as the generation and sharing of new knowledge. In the context of digital music and sound, research projects might have the following form: You design a new kind of musical instrument, novel in how it gains […]
Interaction in Deltaphone
One of the many superpowers of a musician is the ability to hear intervals. This is not a superpower I possess. Can it be learned? While I’ve been working on Deltaphone, a friend mentioned that he coded an interval generator when he was a kid in order to help him train his ear. Last week […]
Starfish
Twoville got support for arcs a couple of months ago. Full SVG supports elliptical arcs, but I don’t think they’re very intuitive and their parameters should not face the user. I restricted Twoville to circular arcs and exposed friendlier parameters. In my original draft, the programmer specified an arc via its starting point (which is […]
Half-homework 1 – Maintenance – due September 23
Your objective in this homework is to acquaint yourself with the world of mathematical calculation using a programming language. Math in code is a little different than the calculator math you are used to in the following ways: Programmers make considerable use of variables, whose names tend to be longer and more meaningful. Numbers are […]
Homework 0 – The Git Sandwich
For homework 0, you gained access to your homework repository on GitLab, cloned it on your local machine, and pushed those local changes back up to GitLab. In this installment, you will learn to synchronize in the other direction—you will pull changes down from GitLab to your local repository. Pulling Suppose you’re home for the […]