This autumn’s seminar series will be dedicated to computer music performance and composition. Four leading practitioners will guide participants from the fundamental
concepts of audio synthesis and computer programming to more advanced topics, including sound analysis, just-in-time programming, communication with hardware devices and stochastic composition.
The course has the additional goal of functioning as a progressive introduction to SuperCollider, a free cross-platform environment for sound synthesis, analysis and composition that is used by musicians, artists and scientists alike for a wide range of purposes: from composing generative music to developing electronic instruments, building interactive installations or sonifying scientific data.
This seminar will cover the basics of realtime sound synthesis and introduce participants to SuperCollider. Attendees will be acquainted with basic sound generators and processors (oscillators, noise generators, filters, delays) as well as
with synthesis techniques such as additive and substractive synthesis and amplitude or frequency modulation. This knowledge will then be used to build synths able to be controlled programatically, by means of graphical user interfaces
or using OpenSoundControl.
This seminar will give an overview of several sound analysis techniques and guide participants on how to apply them to control sound or music processes. We will experiment with techniques for pitch detection and envelope tracking and will also cover more advanced algorithms, such as event and chord identification. We will also look at the importance of filtering and mapping the resulting data prior to using it to drive various synthesis parameters in realtime.
This seminar will explore the possibilities of SuperCollider to create realtime systems for computer music. We will work following the methodology of just-in-time programming, which allows the modification of parts of an algorithm while it is executing. Likewise, we will see how to integrate our instruments with a wide variety of control devices in a flexible and reliable manner. After each session, we will evaluate the behaviour of our programs under live performance conditions.
With a focus on algorithmic composition and stochastic synthesis, this seminar will explore the functionalities offered by SuperCollider to sequence and control sonic processes in time. We will study the main classes involved (Event, Stream, Pattern) and develop a vocabulary of patterns to later create sonic and musical structures by combining random walks and distributions, tendency masks and Markov chains.
Location: Hangar. Passatge del Marquès de Santa Isabel, 40. Barcelona. Metro Poble Nou.
Price: 90€ each seminar
200/220€ the whole course (one single payment / installment payment)
To sign up or request further information, please send an email to info@lullcec.org.
Sonic Seminars 2011
concepts of audio synthesis and computer programming to more advanced topics, including sound analysis, just-in-time programming, communication with hardware devices and stochastic composition.
30.9.2011 & 1/2.10.2011 - Introduction to Sound Synthesis and SuperCollider, led by Thor Magnusson.
This seminar will cover the basics of realtime sound synthesis and introduce participants to SuperCollider. Attendees will be acquainted with basic sound generators and processors (oscillators, noise generators, filters, delays) as well as
with synthesis techniques such as additive and substractive synthesis and amplitude or frequency modulation. This knowledge will then be used to build synths able to be controlled programatically, by means of graphical user interfaces
or using OpenSoundControl.
Price: 90€ each seminar
200/220€ the whole course (one single payment / installment payment)
To sign up or request further information, please send an email to info@lullcec.org.
This activity is organized by l’ull cec with the collaboration of Consell Nacional de la Cultura i les Arts, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Elektronmusikstudion, Austrian Cultural Forum and Hangar.