BAIN MUSC 540/(737)
(Advanced) Projects in Computer Music

Learning Max (Intermediate)

Max Basics

Documentation, Tutorials & Guides

1. Max 8 Documentation {C74}
• Topics:
• Max {C74} | MSP {C74} | Jitter {C74}
• Selected Topics:
• Sound Processing Techniques {C74}
• Sharing Max Patchers {C74}
2. Max 8 Tutorials
• Max 8 Tutorials: Max {C74}; MSP {C74}; Jitter {C74}
• Explore the Online Tutorials
3. Max 8 Guides
   
• Guides: Max {C74}; MSP {C74}; Jitter {C74}; Max4Live {C74}

Getting Started with...

1. BEAP (Berklee Electro-Acoustic Pedagogy)
• Darwin Grosse
• A Few Minutes with BEAP {C74}
• BEAP Analog Model Curriculum Outline {C74}
2. Data
• Tutorials: Max Data Tutorials 1-5 {C74}
3. Gen {C74}
• See: Hall, Gen: Inside Max's Secret Weapon with Cycling '74, Loop Conference (2018) {YouTube}
4. Extending Max: JavaScript, Node JS, and C/C++ {C74}
• Tutorials: Max JS Tutorials 1-4 {C74}
5. MC {C74}
• Tutorials: Gregory Taylor, An MC Journey 1-4 {C74}
• See also: BAIN MUSC 540/737 Learning MC
6. Packages {C74}
   
7. Polyphony {C74}
• Les Stuck, A Polyphonic Synth Video Tutorial {C74}
• Using MC for Polyphony {C74}
8. Standalones {C74}
• Video Tuts: Timothy Place, Advanced Max: Standalones {C74}
9. Vizzie {C74}
• Video Tuts: Gregory Taylor, A Brief Introduction to Vizzie {C74}

Max Community

1. Projects by Max Users {C74}
2. Max Blog: Get the Latest on Max and the C74 Community {C74}
3. Max Forums {C74}
4. Max in Education {C74}

Video Tutorials

1. Cycling '74 (C74)
   
• C74, YouTube Channel {YouTube Channel}
• C74, Did You Know (2.0) {YouTube Playlist}
• Explore the Online Tutorials {C74}
• Isabel Kaspriskie, Demystifying Digital Filters {C74}
• Timothy Place, Advanced Max: Standalones {C74}
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• Gregory Taylor, Algorithmic Composition: An Introduction for the Curious, Terrified, or Perplexed Beginner {C74}
2. Third Party
• Dr. John Reed, Max 8 Tutorials {YouTube Playlist}
• Sam Tarakajian (dude837), Delicious Max Tutorials {YouTube Playlist}
• Samuel Pearce-Davies, Machine Learning in Max {YouTube Channel}

Other Tutorials

1. Darwin Grosse, 20 Objects: A Pragmatic Method for Learning Max/MSP/Jitter and Max for Live {20Objects.com}
2. Amanda Ghassaei, Instructables: MaxMSP Tutorials {Amandaghassaei.com}
• Part 1: Intro. to MaxMSP {Instructables.com}
• Part 2: Intermediate MaxMSP {Instructables.com}
• Part 3: Create Interactive Electronic Instruments with MaxMSP {Instructables.com}

Talks

1. Tom Hall, Gen: Inside Max's Secret Weapon with Cycling '74, Loop Conference (2018) {YouTube}
2. Mikhail Malt, IRCAM Forum Pedagogical Team, Max Demo, at Meet the Forum (2021) {IRCAM Forum}
3. Sam Tarakajian, Keynote: Node for Max—Bringing Node to Desktop Creative Software -  {YouTube}
4. David Zicarelli, Fun with Complexity using MC in Max (2020) {YouTube}
5. David Zicarelli & Tom Hall, Multi-channel audio as creative space: Inside Max 8’s MC, Loop Conference (2018) {YouTube}

Max Packages {C74}

1. Algorithmic Composition
   
• Essl, Real Time Composition Library (RTC-lib) {Essl.at}
2. Computer-Aided Composition
   
• Bach {BachProject.net; IRCAM Forum} (Agostini and Daniele Ghisi 2015)
3. Granular Synthesis
• Article: Kaspriskie, Panning for Granular Gold in the Package Manager {C74}
• Poovey, Grainflow {C74 Articles}
• IRCAM, MuBu for Max {IRCAM}
• Circuit.music.lab, Petra
• Trueman and DuBois, munger~, from Cook & Scavone, The Synthesis ToolKit in C++ (STK) {CCRMA}
4. Machine Learning
• Smith, ml dot star (ml.*) – Machine Learning Library for Max {Website}
• Markov Chains
• Pearce-Davies, ml.markov Tutorial {Part 1: YouTube; Part 2: YouTube; Part 3: YouTube}

Other Max Apps

1. IRCAM Forum
• Forum Max Apps {IRCAM}
• Free IRCAM Techologies {IRCAM}
• See also: IRCAM Technologies {IRCAM}
2. Manzo, EAMIR Project: An open-source music technology project (Manzo 2016)
• Max Objects Database (Legacy Link)

Max for Live

1. What is Max for Live? {C74}
• Video: Learn Live 10: Max for Live {YouTube}
• Ableton, Max for Live {Ableton}
2. Max for Live Devices by Robert Henke {RobertHenke.com}
3. Manzo & Kuhn, Interactive Composition: Strategies using Ableton Live and Max for Live (Manzo & Kuhn. 2015) {GB; Full text: ProQuest}

Programming Techniques

See Cipriani and Giri 2019, Lyon 2012, Manzo 2016, Pasquier 2018, Taylor 2018, Winkler 1998 and Wright 2017

Dobrian (UC Irvine)

• Max Cookbook: Useful and Instructive Programming Examples {UC Irvine}
  
• Interactive Arts Programming Examples {UC Irvine}
• Algorithmic Composition Blog {http://algocomp.blogspot.com}

Elsea (UC Santa Cruz), Tutorials for Max/MSP {PeterElsea.com}

C74 GitHub Repositories {GitHub}

Podcasts

Darwin Grosse, Art + Music + Technology podcast {Libsyn}

Online Courses

Matt Wright (Stanford University), Programming Max: Structuring Interactive Software for Digital Arts (Max 7) {Kadenza}

Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University), Generative Art and Computational Creativity {Kadenza}

References

Agostini, Andrea and Daniele Ghisi. 2015. "A Max Library for Musical Notation and Computer-Aided Composition." Computer Music Journal 39/2 (Summer 2015): 11–27. {JSTOR}

Cipriani, Alessandro and Maurizio Giri. 2019. Electronic Music and Sound Design Theory and Practice with Max 8, Contemponet. Volume 1: GB; Volume 2: GB; Website}

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; Full text: Ebook Central; Companion Website | EAMIR}

Manzo, V.J. and Will Kuhn. 2015. Interactive Composition: Strategies using Ableton Live and Max for Live. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB; Full text: ProQuest}

Pasquier, Philippe. 2018. Generative Art and Computational Creativity. Valencia, CA: Kadenze. Available online at: <https://www.kadenze.com/courses/generative-art-and-computational-creativity/info>

Rowe, Robert. 2001. Machine Musicianship. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {GB}

___________. 1993. Interactive Music Systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {GB; Full text: Nyu.edu}

Taylor, Gregory. 2018. Step by Step: Adventures in Sequencing with Max/MSP. San Francisco: Cycling '74. {GB}

Winkler, Todd. 2001/1998. Composing Interactive Music: Techniques and Ideas Using Max. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {GB; Full text: PASCAL}

Wright, Matt. 2017. Programming Max: Structuring Interactive Software for Digital Arts. Valencia, CA: Kadenze. Available online at: <https://www.kadenze.com/courses/programming-max-structuring-interactive-software-for-digital-arts/info>.

Updated: March 11, 2022

Reginald Bain | University of South Carolina | School of Music
https://reginaldbain.com/vc/musc540/