This week we started working with MIDI in the Max environment. We discussed the different semantics of a MIDI note message vs a musical note (as we know it from standard Western music notation). While the former is a discrete message (transmitting a key number and a velocity), the latter can be considered a symbolic musical object which has a duration and is commonly embedded […]
In this week’s class we first had a small class concert of interactive, improvisational MIDI studies. The general quality was high and I think the pieces were very interesting, at times dramatic, at others humouristic, working with texture, sound masses, instrumentation, and many other elements. The density of notes was a bit reminiscent of the idea of Black Midi ;-) This little concert […]
In this week’s lecture (Max & MIDI III) we continued improving the structure of our performance patch. We learned why it makes sense to separate the score from the processing part and the user interface. We found that there are parts of our program we do not need to look at during a performance, more specifically, the […]
This week’s lecture focused on programming style and strategies for structuring a patch for real-time performance situations. After looking at different solutions for Class 3’s programming assignment we discussed strategies for detecting and removing programming mistakes (debugging) to make you programs behave as intended. We then studied different approaches to realize more complex data-flows and introduced […]
This week we started working with MIDI in the Max environment. We discussed the different semantics of a MIDI note message vs a musical note (as we know it from standard Western music notation). While the former is a discrete instruction, the latter has a duration and is commonly embedded in a harmonic and metric context, i.e. it has a musical meaning. In MIDI, […]