Day 18: (Thu Mar 21, Week 10) Prototyping the Cell

Notes for 2024-03-21.

New Assignments

  1. Review programming or composition tools of your choice.

Administrative

  • Week 10: shared installation design and fabrication

  • Week 11: install and program shared installation, form final project groups

  • Week 12: project ideation and proof-of-concept

  • Week 13: project fabrication (no class Thu Apr 11)

  • Week 14: project installation and programming, public demo

  • Week 15: documentation and critique

Agenda

  1. Today we will prototype the form of the common performance installation based on the results from Tuesday.

  2. At any moment you not involved in the physical setup, please investigate the Python and MIDI tools in order to decide on a composition strategy.

    • the Lending laptops have Ableton Live if that is your choice

    • the current draft of the Python MIDI tools is on Theater MIDI Processing

    • the current sample code may be downloaded as theater.zip

    • please note the sample code will be updated after the hardware configuration is settled