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This course examines the history, techniques, and aesthetics of mechanical and computer-aided approaches to algorithmic music composition and generative music systems.
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Description
Through creative hands-on projects, readings, listening assignments, and lectures, students will explore a variety of historical and contemporary approaches. Diverse tools and systems will be employed, including applications in Python, MIDI, Csound, SuperCollider, and Pure Data
Course content
- Foundations: Algorithmic and generative music systems Unlimited
- Foundations: Musical parameters, mappings, and tools Unlimited
- Approaches: Distributions and stochastics Unlimited
- Foundations: Historical and categorical perspectives Unlimited
- History: Serialism, loops, tiling, and phasing Unlimited
- Workshop Unlimited
- History: Michele Gottfried Koenig Unlimited
- Approaches: Permutations, generators, and chaos Unlimited
- History: Lejaren Hiller Unlimited
- Approaches: Probability and Markov chains Unlimited
- Workshop Unlimited
- History: Iannis Xenakis Unlimited
- Approaches: Non-standard synthesis Unlimited
- Approaches: Granular and concatenative synthesis Unlimited
- Approaches: Mapping, sonification, and data bending Unlimited
- Workshop Unlimited
- Approaches: Cellular automata Unlimited
- Approaches: Genetic algorithms Unlimited
- Approaches: Grammars and L-Systems Unlimited
- History: Mechanical musical automata Unlimited
- Workshop Unlimited
- Approaches: Agents and ecological models Unlimited
- Approaches: Expert systems and style emulation Unlimited
- Discussion: Aesthetics and evaluations Unlimited
- Sonic system project presentations Unlimited
Instructor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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