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    INTRODUCTION TO

    COMPUTER MUSIC
    AIST2010 Lecture 1
    AIST2010: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC
    AIST2010 is a new course
    ­Thank you to be part of this!
    As said in the subtitle:
    ­“From Analysis to Algorithmic Music”
    ­This is planned to be a project-based course for engineers to develop an
    understanding in building music software technologies

    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 2


    COURSE LOGISTICS
    Course meetings
    ­Lectures: T2 @ERB804, H8-9 @LHC101
    ­Labs: Either T4 or T5 @SHB123 (CSE lab)
    ­ Due to a number of students’ scheduling conflicts, let’s have a vote after class to fit everyone!

    Course instructor Course tutor


    ­Dr. Chuck-jee CHAU ­Zhuolun HE
    ­ chuckjee@cse.cuhk.edu.hk ­ zlhe@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
    ­ YIA 1207H ­ SHB 1026

    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 3


    SPECTRUM OF KNOWLEDGE: COMPUTER VS MUSIC

    Programmer Audio Electronic Musician


    Engineer Musician

    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 4


    WHAT IS IN THIS COURSE?
    Basic concepts of digital audio We can never teach you the
    Programming experience complete picture in one course
    ­Explore into one (or more!) of the
    ­MATLAB: sound analysis topics via the course project
    ­CSound: sound synthesis
    ­Python: MIR
    ­MaxMSP: music programming Basic programming skills (of any
    ­Magenta: music with AI language) is necessary
    ­Euterpea: algorithmic music ­And be prepared for the adventures

    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 5


    WHAT IS NOT IN THIS COURSE?
    How can I compose music? Which synthesizer should I
    How to use vocaloid? choose?
    How to typeset music scores? How to use GarageBand?
    How to set up my Hi-Fi? …
    How to buy good earphones?
    What is the best audio Yet, some technical fundamentals
    compression codec? in this course may be helpful for
    you to these questions!
    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 6
    RELATED COURSES
    UGEB2149
    Music, Mind and Artificial Intelligence
    IERG4190
    Multimedia Coding and Processing AIST2010
    Introduction to Computer Music

    Technical Musical
    CSCI3280
    Introduction to Multimedia Systems MUSC2333
    Music Information Technology
    MUSC3383
    Electronic Music

    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 7


    COURSE PLAN
    Week Lectures Lab
    1 Introduction, Real-life vs. Digital Music No lab
    2 Analysis and Visualization Audacity / SoundVisualizer
    3 Music Information Retrieval MATLAB
    4 Audio Synthesis CSound
    5 DSP and Filters No lab (public holiday)
    6 More on MIR Python
    7 Web Audio, Midterm Exam TBC
    8 MaxMSP and SuperCollider MaxMSP
    9 Machine Learning TBC
    10 TensorFlow / Magenta Magenta
    11 Functional Programming and Music Haskell / Eutrepea
    12 & 13 Project Presentation Project Help
    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 8
    COURSE ASSESSMENT
    Labs (20%)
    ­Submit the ~8 required lab exercises weekly
    Midterm Exam (20%)
    ­Textbook knowledge from analysis, synthesis to MIR
    Project (40%)
    ­Propose your own topic, explore and share with your classmates
    Extensive project report (20%)
    ­A careful elaboration on the journey of project exploration
    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 9
    THE PROJECT
    Work individually or in a group of 2 students
    ­The amount of work would be assessed
    Explore further on one of the topics covered in this course, e.g.
    ­ Implement some music apps/games (synthesis/analysis)
    ­ Data mining on music/audio data
    ­ Understand, extend and improve some open-source projects
    ­Present and demo to class in the last lecture(s)
    Individual writeup of the exploration journey (instead of final exam)
    ­Excellent projects may be escalated to a “conference” level for submission!
    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 10
    EQUIPMENT FOR YOUR USE
    Most of the software we use are open-source or licenced to CUHK
    ­Audacity, CSound, PureData, …
    ­MATLAB: refer to ITSC for installation instructions
    The only exception: MaxMSP
    ­This is a software for music programming, to be introduced in October
    ­CSE purchased licences are available on several lab machines only
    ­But you may use the “demo” version for 3 months

    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 11


    EQUIPMENT FOR YOUR USE
    A capable laptop is good enough for the course, in general
    ­You may use your mobile devices for controlling too
    MIDI controllers may be useful for some projects
    ­For our course we have two Roli Seaboard Block!
    ­5D polyphonic MIDI control
    ­You may borrow it for your course project!

    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 12


    REFERENCE MATERIALS
    Here are some useful books/sites that you may read for reference!
    ­C. Roads, The computer music tutorial. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1995.
    ­M. Müller, Fundamentals of music processing. Cham: Springer, 2015.
    ­V. Lazzarini, S. Yi, J. ffitch, J. Heintz, Ø. Brandtsegg and I. McCurdy, Csound.
    Cham: Springer, 2016.
    ­V. Lazzarini, Computer Music Instruments. Cham: Springer, 2016.
    ­J. Burg, J. Romney and E. Schwartz, "Digital Sound & Music - Concepts,
    Applications, and Science", Digital Sound & Music, 2014. [Online].
    Available: http://digitalsoundandmusic.com.
    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 13
    COURSE CONTACT
    Blackboard site
    ­Publishing of lecture and lab materials
    ­Announcements
    ­https://blackboard.cuhk.edu.hk/ultra/courses/_117895_1/cl/outline
    Slack
    ­Casual Q&A and discussion
    ­https://tinyurl.com/join-aist2010

    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 14


    THE WORLD OF COMPUTER MUSIC
    Still a highly active research area Important conferences, e.g.
    ­Many questions yet to solve, e.g. ­ ICMC
    ­ The interaction between human and computer on ­ ISMIR
    artistic touches ­ NIME
    ­ More efficient and effective ways for music
    ­ See: http://conferences.smcnetwork.org
    information retrieval
    ­ Machine composition and improvisation

    Important research labs, e.g. Let’s explore together in the


    ­ IRCAM (Paris, France)
    ­ CCRMA (Stanford University)
    upcoming 13 weeks!
    AIST2010 L1 – INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC 15

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