C O U R S E   P H A S E S
1.	Planning
2.	Research and Development
	Project Execution
4.	Presentation
5.	Final Report

News

Midterm Project Meetings are now taking place.

Dr. Reginald Bain, Professor
Composition and Theory
rbain@mozart.sc.edu
(803) 777-8183
Music Building, R227

Description

Directed study in computer music composition or research

Prerequisite

MUSC 336 Introduction to Computer Music

Syllabus

Mutational Music Project

The group project for Spring 2022 is an interdisciplinary collaboration with BIOL 599 Topics in Biology: Chords & Codons. This unique beyond-the-classroom experience involves research and creative activity that lies at the intersection of genetics and algorithmic composition. It is part of the Mutational Music Project – a collaboration between Jeff Dudycha (Department of Biological Sciences) and Reginald Bain (School of Music) that is the broader impact component of the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant Mutational variance of the transcriptome and the origins of phenotypic plasticity (NSF award #1556645).

Login: MUTATIONAL MUSIC PROJECT WEBSITE

Experimental Computer Music Studios (xMUSE)

1. Studio B: Music Building, Room 011
   • Policies (pdf)
   • Log Sheet (pdf)
     
   • Studio B Key
2. Studio A: Music Building, Room 039

MUSC540/737 Learning Tutorial Links

Music Tech News

1. Create Digital Music (CDM): Stories
2. SoundOnSound: Latest News
3. Wired Magazine: Latest News
4. Sweetwater News: InSync
5. IRCAM: Forumnet; Magazine; Twitter
6. Mac: MacWorld; MacRumors
7. Scoring Notes: News
8. New Music Box
9. MIT: Media Lab; Music Technology News
   
10. Music Tech: News
11. Music Radar: Tech News
12. NYTimes: Art, Science & Technology

News, Current Topics, Items of Interest, etc.

1. A DNA Map You Can Touch—Or Walk Through {SciFri}
2. Long-awaited MuseScore 4 release brings major improvements to engraving and audio {ScoringNotes}
   
3. Peter Kirn
• NASA’s Webb telescope could transform how we imagine digital art, along with our cosmos {CDM}
• FFT magic explained with animations and smoothies, not equations {CDM}
4. Tutorial: OpenMusic 6.18 {IRCAM}
   
5. Ableton Live 11 Reviews {CDM; MacWorld; SOS}
   
6. MuseScore 3.6 focuses on engraving upgrades, new fonts {ScoringNotes}
7. Free Digital Audio Workstations {Bpb}
8. Ben Rogerson, The Best DAWs 2020: The best digital audio workstations for PC and Mac {MusicRadar}
9. Apple: Try Logic Pro X free for 90 days {Apple}; Try Final Cut Pro X free for 90 days {Apple}
10. Carla Scaletti, ICAD 2017 Keynote Address {YouTube}
    
11. Translating proteins into music, and back {MIT News}
12. Reason 11: tons of new devices, features, and now it's a plug-in, too {CDM}
13. Classical Music Meets Real-time Visualization: Pianographique {Ars Electronica Blog}
14. Max 8 is here! {Cycling '74}
15. Cycling ’74 announce Max 8 coming after Ableton Live 10 {GearNews}
16. Announcing Ableton Live 10 {Mobile Beat}
17. Reason 10 is a return to form: all about the instruments {CDM}
18. Ableton acquires Max maker C74; what you need to know {CDM}
    • Peter Kirn, A conversation with David Zicarelli and Gerhard Behles {CDM}
      
19. Steven Wolfram, How to teach computational thinking {Stevenwolfram.com}
20. Learning Music Online
• 1. Creative Education For The World {Class-Central.com}
• 2. AI, Social Networks, And The Future {Class-Central.com}
• 3. Curriculum, Robot Graders and Teachers {Class-Central.com}

Open Access Books

Burk, Phil, Larry Polansky, Douglas Repetto, Mary Roberts and Dan Rockmore. 2011.
      Music and Computers: A Theoretical and Historical Approach,
      Archival Version. {Musicandcomputersbook.com}

Downey, Allen B. {GreenTeaPress.com}

• Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, 2/e (2016)
• Think Data Structures (2017)
  
• Think Complexity, 2/e (2018)
  
• Think DSP, 1/e (2016)
  

Hass, Jeffrey. 2020. Introduction to Computer Music: An Electronic Textbook. {Indiana.edu}

Hermann, T., A. Hunt and J. G. Neuhoff, eds. 2011. The Sonification Handbook. Berlin: Logos Publishing House. {Logos}

OpenStax. 2019. Biology, 2/e. Houston: Rice University. {cmx.org}

Puckette, Miller. 2007. The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (With Examples in Pd). World Scientific Press. {html | pdf | GB}

Rowe, Robert. 1993. Interactive Music Systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {NYU.edu}

Severence, Charles. 2016. Python for Everybody: Exploring Data in Python 3. Available online at:
<https://www.py4e.com/book>.

Smus, Boris. 2013. Web Audio API. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media. {Webaudioapi.com}

Wolfram, Stephen. 2002. A New Kind of Science. Champaign-Urbana, IL: Wolfram Media. {Wolfram}

Phillips, Scott L. 2013. Beyond Sound: The College and Career Guide in Music Technology. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB}

Be sure to check out SPARK: The UofSC School of Music's Leadership Laboratory

MOOCS AND ONLINE LEARNING

1. Kadenza: Welcome to the Future of STEAM Education
2. Coursera: Music Courses
3. EdX
4. iTunes U
5. MIT OpenCourseWare
6. Kahn Academy
7. Socratica
8. Udacity

INTERESTING BLOGS AND PODCASTS

1. Blogs
   • Ars Electronica Blog
   • Ed Chang, Stockhausen: Sounds in Space
   • Kyle Gann, PostClassic {ArtsJournal.com}
   • Kadenza Blog
   • New Music Box Blog
   • Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise
   • Philip Rothman, Scoring Notes
     

2. Podcasts
• BBC Radio 3, Between the Ears
• Creative Disturbance: Sound & Data
• Nadia Sirota, Living Music
• Miriam Quick and Duncan Geere, Loud Numbers: A data sonification podcast
• Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett, The World According to Sound {Website; SoundCloud}

FIELDS OF STUDY / PROJECT IDEAS

Composition

Aesthetics
Risset, Jean-Claude. Computer Music: Why? {utexas.edu}
Roads, Curtis. 2015. Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic. New York: Oxford. {GB}
___________. 2004. Microsound. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {GB}
Wishart, Trevor. 1996/2016. On Sonic Art. New York: Routledge. {GB}
____________. 1994. Audible Design: A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Sound Composition. Amsterdam: Orpheus the Pantomime Ltd. {GB}

Algorithmic Composition
Ariza, Christopher. 2005. An Open Design for Computer-Aided Algorithmic Music Composition. Boca Raton, FL: Dissertation.com. {GB}
Herremans D., Chuan C.-H., Chew E. 2017. "A Functional Taxonomy of Music Generation Systems." ACM Computing Surveys 50/5. {Pre-print}
Dobrian, Chistopher. 2008. "Algorithmic Composition Blog: A journal of short lessons on the topic of algorithmic composition." {Algocomp.blogspot.com}
Essl, Karlheinz. 2017. "Algorithimic Composition." In The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, 2nd ed., Nick Collins and Julio d'Escrivan, eds. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB}
Nierhaus, Gerhard. 2009. Paradigms of Automated Music Generation. New York: Springer. {GB}

See also: BAIN MUSC 540 Mutational Music Project: Algorithmic Composition

Getting Starting with Max/MSP – See Max Project Ideas
Manzo, V.J. 2016. Max/MSP/Jitter for Music: A Practical Guide to Developing Interactive Music Systems for Education and More, 2nd ed. New York, Oxford. {GB | Oxford | Companion Website | EAMIR}
Rowe, Robert. Interactive Music Systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {NYU}
Winkler, Todd. 2001. Composing Interactive Music: Techniques and Ideas Using Max. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {GB}

Getting Started w/ Pure Data (Pd) – See PureData.info

Getting Started w/ DAWs
The MusicRadar Team (Production Expo). 2015. "The 20 best DAW software apps in the world today" Music Radar (September 2015). {Music Radar}

Abelton Live | Acid Pro | Cubase | Digital Performer | Reason | Logic | ProTools | Reaper | Sonar

Computational Music Analysis

Cuthbert, M. S., and C. Ariza. 2010. "music21: A toolkit for computer-aided musicology and symbolic music data."
In Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Miami, FL: 637–642. {DSpace@MIT}

Meredith, David, ed. 2016. Computational Music Analysis. New York: Spring. {GB}

Tymoczko, Dmitri. 2013. "Review of Michael Cuthbert, 'Music21: a Toolkit for Computer-aided Musicology.'" Music Theory Online 19/3 (August 2013). {MTO}

Software

1. Music21
   • Download | Discussion List | Corpus List
2. Humdrum Toolkit
   • CCARH Humdrum Toolkit Portal

Laptop/Mobile Performance (See also: Learning Live Coding)

1. TOPLAP: The home of live coding {Website}
2. Princeton Laptop Orchestra {Website}
3. Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra {Website}
4. Puckette, Pd Repertory Project {Website}

Microtonality

Gann, Kyle. 2019. The Arithmetic of Listening: Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician. Champaign Urbana: University of Illinois Press. {Audio Examples}

1. Elaine Walker
   • What is Xenharmonic Music? {New Music Box}
   • Composing Xenharmonic Music {New Music Box}
2. Kyle Gann
   • An Introduction to Historical Tunings
   • Just Intonation Explained
     • Anatomy of an Octave
3. Marc Sabat, Music & Writings
   • Nicholson and Sabat, Fundamental Principles of Just Intonation and Microtonal Composition {marcsabat.com}
     • Sabat, The Harmonic Series 1-64 above "A0" {marcsabat.com}
   • Sabat and von Schweinitz, The Extended Helmholtz-Ellis JI Pitch Notation {macrsabat.com}
4. Advanced
   • Huygens-Fokker Foundation, Centre for Microtonal Music
   • Monzo, Tonalsoft Encyclopedia of Microtonal and Just-Intonation Theory
   • Rapoport, 31et.com
   • Sethares, Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
     • Relating Tuning & Timbre
   • Skinner, Quarter Tones
   • Xenharmonic Wiki
5. Software/Tools
   • Tontechni-Rechner, Conversion of Intervals to Cents {Sengpilaudio.com}
   • Op de Coul, Scala

Music Creativity

Music Creativity Through Technology

Music & Mathematics

See BAIN MUSC 726B Music and Mathematics

IRCAM, Music Representations Team {IRCAM}

Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music {SMCM}

Music Notation

1. Professional notation software
   • Dorico
   • Finale
   • Sibelius
2. Free notation software
   • Musescore
3. Data Exchange
   • MusicXM – An open format for exchanging digital sheet music
4. Score Animation
   • Score Follower - Videos of contemporary music scores that turn pages along with the accompanying recordings
5. Advanced
   • Abjab – Python API for formalized score control
   • Bach: Automated Composer's Helper - Music notation inside Max
     
   • InScore – An interactive augmented music score
   • LilyPond –Text-based music notation software
   • MaxScore – Music notation for Max/MSP and Ableton Live
   • JMSL– Java Music Specification Language for composition, performance, and intelligent instrument design
     

Schankler, Isaac. 2013. "Notational Alternatives: Beyond Finale and Sibelius. New Music Box (February 27, 2013). {New Music Box}

Sonification

What is Sonification?
Burke, et al. 2011. "Sonification," in Music and Computers: A Theoretical and Historical Approach, Archival Version. {Website}

Sonification Handbook
Hermann, T., A. Hunt and J. G. Neuhoff, eds. 2011. The Sonification Handbook. Berlin: Logos Publishing House. {Website}

Spatialization

IRCAM Forumnet, Spat~ {IRCAM}

Compositional Applications
Boulez, Pierre and Andrew Gerzso. 1988. "Computers in Music." Scientific American Vol. 258, no. 4 (April 1988). {IRCAM}
Chowning, John. 1971. "The Simulation of Moving Sound Sources." Journal of the Audio Engineering Society Vol. 19/1: 2–6. {CCRMA}

Synthesis, Audio Programming and Instrument Design

Introduction to Synthesis
Dodge, Charles and Thomas A. Jerse. 1997. Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition and Performance, 2nd ed. New York: Schirmer.
Moore, F. Richard. 1990. Elements of Computer Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Puckette, Miller. 2007. The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (With Examples in Pd). World Scientific Press. {html | pdf | GB; PureData}

Audio Programming & Theory
Boulanger, Richard, and Victor Lazzarini, ed. 2010. The Audio Programming Book. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {Website}
Smith, Julius O. 2009. Introduction to Digital Filters. {CCRMA}
___________. 2009. Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). {CCRMA}
___________. 2018. Physical Audio Signal Processing. {CCRMA}
___________. 2018. Spectral Audio Signal Processing. {CCRMA}

Instrument Design
Lazzarini, Victor. 2017. Computer Music Instruments: Foundations, Design and Development. New York: Springer. {GB}

w/ Csound– See Csounds.com
Boulanger, Richard. 2000.The Csound Book. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {Website}
Lazzarini, Victor , Steven Yi, John ffitch, Joachim Heintz, Øyvind Brandtsegg, and Iain McCurdy. 2016. Csound: A Sound and Music Computing System. New York: Springer. {GB}

w/ Chuck– See Chuck.cs.princeton.edu
Kapur, Ajay, Perry Cook, Spencer Salazar, and Ge Wang. 2015. Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists. Shelter Island, NY: Manning. {GB; Website}

w/ Max – See Cycling74.com
Cipriani, Alessandro and Maurizio Giri. 2010. Electronic Music and Sound Design Theory and Practice with Max/MSP, Volume 1.
      Contemponet {Website}
Lyon, Eric. 2012. Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions.

w/ Pure Data (Pd) – See PureData.info
Farnell, Andy. 2010. Designing Sound. Cambridge: MIT Press. {MIT Press}
Puckette, Miller. 2007. The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (With Examples in Pd). World Scientific Press. {html | pdf | GB; ; PureData}

w/ SuperCollider – See SuperCollider.github.io
Cottle, David Michael. 2009. Computer Music with Examples in SuperCollider 3. Salt Lake City, UT.
Wilson, Scott, David Cottle, and Nick Collins, ed. 2011. The SuperCollider Book. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Web Audio
Smus, Boris. 2013. Web Audio API. O'Reilly Media. Sebastopol, CA. {O'Reilly Atlas | Code Samples | GitHub}

SOFTWARE

See also: Learning Tutorial Links

1. Abelton Live – Software and hardware for live music production, creation and performance
   • See also Max for Live
2. AlloSphere Software – Software used at UCSB's AlloSphere
3. Audacity – Freeware app for audio editing/recording
• Creating plug-ins with the Nyquist programming language (Dannenberg & Simoni 2008)
4. ChucK – Open source programming language for real-time sound synthesis and music creation
• Cook and Scavone, The Synthesis ToolKit in C++ (STK)
5. CDP (Composers Desktop Project) – Advanced sound transformation and editing
6. Csound – Advanced audio processing, programming, synthesis, etc.
7. DSP Quattro –  Audio editor
8. Faust – A function programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing
9. Final Cut Pro – Video editor
10. Iannix – A graphical open-source sequencer for digital art
11. Integra Live – Free, and easy to use, interactive audio processing
12. IRCAM Forumnet – Advanced software for computer-music composition, performance, etc.
    • AudioSculpt
    • OpenMusic
    • Spat~
    • etc.
13. JMSL – Java Music Specification Language API for composition, performance, and intelligent instrument design
14. JSyn & PureJSyn – Sound API for Java
15. Logic X – Apple's MIDI/Audio Sequencer/DAW
16. Max (Max, MSP, Jitter, etc.): A graphical programming language for music and media
• Bach: automated composer’s helper {IRCAM Forumnet}
• Essl, RTC-lib
  
17. Max for Live {Ableton; Cycling '74; MaxForLive.com}
18. Python – An easy-to-learn general purpose programming lanaguage
19. Processing – A programming language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts
20. ProTools – Digital audio recording and editing
21. Pure Data (Pd) – An open source alternative to Max
22. Reason – Software-based sampler, sequencer, and more
23. SoundHack – A spectral sound processor for the Mac (convolution, mutation, spatialization)
24. Sonic Visualiser - An application for viewing and analyzing the contents of music audio files
25. SPEAR –  Sinusoidal partial editing analysis and resynthesis
26. QLab – Live audio/video show control for Mac OS X
27. SuperCollider – Real-time interactive audio synthesis and algorithmic composition {GitHub}

SAMPLES, SOUND EFFECTS, SOUNDS, & VIDEOS

1. Sounds
   • Archive.org
     • Audio
   • BBC Sound Effects
   • Freesfx
   • Freesound.org
   • SampleRadar {MusicRadar}
   • Instrument sounds
     • U. of Iowa, Electronic Music Studios, Music Instrument Samples
     • Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra Samples
     • Bassoon Sound Library, https://www.soundlibrary.online
2. Videos
   • Archive.org
     • Video
   • Prelinger Archives

VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT LIBRARIES

1. Garritan
2. Kontakt
3. Vienna Symphonic Library

COMMUNICATION, CONTROL DEVICES & INTERFACES

1. Arduino
2. Blackmagic
3. Focusrite
4. Google Glass {WP}
5. MIDI {WP}
• MMA Tutorials
6. M-Audio
7. Monome
8. MOTU
9. OSC {WP}
10. OSCulator
11. Pre-Sonus
12. Tonal Plexus
13. Rewire{WP}
14. Wii Remote {WP}
15. Wacom

Computer Music Magazines

1. Computer Music Magazine
2. Create Digital Music
3. Electronic Musician
4. Keyboard Magazine
5. MusicRadar
6. MusicTech
7. Sound on Sound
8. Sweetwater InSync
9. Synthtopia

Professional Societies & Conferences

1. Acoustical Society of America {Association for Technology in Music Instruction {ATMI}
2. Audio Engineering Society {AES}
3. The Bridges Organization: Art and Mathematics {Bridges}
4. International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design {EvoMUSEART}
5. International Association of Laptop Orchestras {IALO}
6. International Community for Auditory Display {ICAD}
7. International Computer Music Association {ICMA}
8. International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression {NIME}
9. International Society for Music Information Retreival {ISMIR}
10. Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST)
11. Loop Conference
12. New Music USA
13. New Music World {NMW}
    • Electronic Music Foundation (EMF)
14. Society for Electroacoutic Music in the United States {SEAMUS}
15. Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music {SMCM}
16. Sound and Music Computing {SMC}

Journals and Conference Proceedings

1. Bridges Organization Archive {Bridges Archive}
2. Computer Music Journal {MIT Press; UofSC}
3. Computing in Musicology {CCARH}
4. Contemporary Music Review {Taylor & Francis}
5. Csound Journal {Csounds.com}
6. Interference {Interferencejournal.org}
   
7. International Conference on Auditory Display Proceedings {ICAD}
8. International Computer Music Conference Proceedings {ICMA}
9. Journal of Creative Music Systems {JCMS}
10. Journal of Mathematics and Music {Taylor & Francis; UofSC}
11. Journal of Mathematics and the Arts {Taylor & Francis; UofSC}
12. Journal of Music, Technology & Education {Intellect Ltd.}
13. Leonardo, Journal of Arts, Sciences and Technology {Leonardo}
14. Leonardo Music Journal {LMJ; UofSC}
    
15. Music and Mathematics Journal {Taylor & Francis; UofSC}
16. Music and Science {Sage}
17. Organized Sound {Cambridge Core; UofSC}
    
18. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences {PNAS}
    
19. Social Studies of Science {Sage}
20. Sound Studies {Taylor & Francis}

See also: Music Theory Journals {BAIN MUSC 725}

Research: Find It @ UofSC

Bibliography

Computer Music Journal Bibliography & Links {CMJ}