Expanded Music Performance https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018 57-425/57-825 Spring 2018 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:09:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cropped-noface-drawing-tiny-32x32.png Expanded Music Performance https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018 32 32 P5 – Music with visuals https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018/p5-music-with-visuals/ Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:09:39 +0000 https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018/?p=79 Continue reading P5 – Music with visuals]]> Due March 5.

Record a music performance with live visuals. Your deliverable will be a video with high-quality sound and imagery. Your visuals may be generated in Max, in a Max for Live device, or some other piece of software: the goal is to create a compelling visual accompaniment to a live music performance. Deliver via Canvas by uploading a Quicktime file or submitting a link to a Youtube/Vimeo movie.

]]> P4 – Electroacoustic with M4L https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018/p4-electroacoustic-with-m4l/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:28:04 +0000 https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018/?p=72 Continue reading P4 – Electroacoustic with M4L]]> Record, mix, edit, and master an electro-acoustic performance using Max for live (M4L) processing of one more instruments mic’d with DPA instrument microphones. You may perform the instrument(s) yourself or recruit colleague/friends while you perform live electronics.

You will be delivering not only your recording but also the entire Project folder with all dependencies. In Ableton do File/Collect all and Save to make sure your M4L devices are included. Zip your project folder, including the master output recording in the root level, into a zip file named YOURANDREWID-P4.zip and deliver via Canvas.

]]> P3 – Electroacoustics with Max https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018/p3-electroacoustics-with-max/ Mon, 05 Feb 2018 16:41:39 +0000 https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018/?p=67 Continue reading P3 – Electroacoustics with Max]]> Record an electro-acoustic performance using Max of one more instruments mic’d with DPA instrument microphones. You may perform the instrument(s) yourself or recruit colleague/friends while you perform live electronics.

You will be delivering not only your recording but also the Max patch and all patch dependencies. Zip your recording and patch/dependencies into a zip file named YOURANDREWID-P3.zip and deliver via Canvas.

]]> P2 – An electro-acoustic performance https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018/p2-an-electro-acoustic-performance/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:46:06 +0000 https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018/?p=61 Continue reading P2 – An electro-acoustic performance]]> Record an electro-acoustic performance using Ableton Live for live processing of one more instruments mic’d with DPA instrument microphones. You may perform the instrument(s) yourself or recruit colleague/friends while you perform live electronics. After you’ve recorded the performance, refine the recording using Automation editing in Ableton. Polish the mix as best you can using effects we’ve covered and others you explore on your own.

You will be delivering your entire Ableton session as well as a normalized mix of the piece. Save your Ableton session as YOURANDREWID-P2. Make sure all your media files are included in this project directory – for example you should see all the recorded audio files in the Samples/Recorded sub-directory. If not everything is in there you do “File/Collect All and Save” – this command will move all the dependencies into your project folder.

Now export your final mix into the project root directory as a normalized WAV file named YOURANDREWID-P2.wav. Your project folder should now look like this, for example:

Zip the project folder and deliver via Canvas. The zip file should be named YOURANDREWID-P2.zip

]]> Project 1: Augmented performance https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018/assignment-1-augmented-performance/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:40:20 +0000 https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/57-425/s2018/?p=46 Continue reading Project 1: Augmented performance]]> Due 12:30PM, 1/22/18

For this project you will video-record a live music performance that is augmented in any way you can imagine. Your augmentation could be:

Acoustic: playing in a reverberant space, playing underneath a blanket, playing underwater, etc.

Electronic: using software, electronic instruments, etc.

Visual: deploying costumes, lighting decor, etc.

Conceptual/compositional: playing a composition backwards, etc.

…or whatever twists you can dream up.

Your video should be shoot well with high-quality audio (no built-in mics from phones please). You are encouraged to make use of the GoPro cameras and Zoom audio recorders from IDeATe lending. The IDeATe Macbook Pros have Adobe Premiere, which can be used for adding high quality audio to a video recording with poor audio (i.e. video shot on a phone or a GoPro).

Submit your video via Canvas. Your file should be named YOURANDREWID-P1.mov.

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