DANM 220: Week 5, Tuesday, 2/05/08

Here begins Workshop #3, Csound

Discussion

Programming
  • Acoustic chronology
  • Functions and Look Up Tables, the sine function
  • The iconic language of Csound
Hints:
  • Experiment with the two applets
References:
  • The CSound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processiing, and Programmiing. Richard Boulanger, ed., 2000
  • Refs from the Csound book
  • Ralph, Visual Music Instruments and Chaos,
    Reality Hackers, Winter 1988, pp. 22-26 [PDF], 5 pages, 2.8 MB
Assignment due 5Th at 10 am:
  • Download and install Csound 5
  • Download our text, Chapter 01 of The Csound Book, 42 pages, 788 KB PDF
  • Listen to the two Boulanger compositions from the text, HERE

Revised by Ralph, 05 February 2008