Julio’s Creative Music Technology Teaching

Electronically Modified Didgeridoo « Jimmy Murfitt’s Blog

Have you not been to Jim Murfitt’s blog recently?
All you droney electronica lovers really want to see this… follow the link:

Electronically Modified Didgeridoo « Jimmy Murfitt’s Blog

Britten Sinfonia Nico Muhly Electronics Workshop

Dear Students, a friend from St. John’s College asked me to invite my students to this event. Below is the description and a link to the facebook event page.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=304837846912&ref=mf

On 5th of Feb, at 11am, Nico Muhly will talk about composing music with live and pre-recorded elements. It’ll be aimed particularly at those new to electroacoustic composition, but’ll be interesting for all. Jonathan Green – sound technician with BCMG and Sound Intermedia, amongst others – will also be on hand to answer any questions or discuss ideas.

In the second half of the morning, Nico will be *WORKSHOPPING STUDENT COMPOSITIONS*. These compositions can be entirely pre-recorded or involve acoustic and electronic elements, can be in any genre, but must not be longer than 5 minutes. Four pieces will be chosen for the workshop. To submit compositions, email Joe Snape < jfs41@cam.ac.uk> with your name, contact details, sound file and scores (if applicable) attached. Write a short description of/commentary on the work if you feel it’s necessary.

The workshop will take place at the West Road music faculty:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=faculty+of+music,+west+road,+cambridge&sll=52.202241,0.107825&sspn=0.004577,0.007939&ie=UTF8&hq=faculty+of+music,&hnear=W+Rd,+CambridgeCB3,+UK&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A

If you’re interested in new music – DON’T MISS IT.

Well done and Christmas present !

Well done guys ! you made it through the first semester, and in one piece !!

Some of you surprised me pleasantly by producing better work than I had expected. Others owe me lots of work as they took it easy and mostly coasted till the end when they went frantic. I hope everyone now is clear that you need to be committed to the subject from day 1 of week 1. I hope you will do this for next semester!

Thank you for the links you have shared in your blogs, I have alternatively found them very interesting, inspiring and curious. The best thing is, I have learned a lot from you by following your work closely. I am taking my time with your marking and discovering even more stuff I missed during the semester or just looked over lightly and can now follow through (there’s more than 20 of you and only one of me ). Well done.

Here is a ‘present’ for you all, it is a link to the work of my friend John Eacott who sonified the Thames river and had the music played by 40 musicians -all of them alive as opposed to virtual !! -

Please let me know if  you intend to follow the blog during the next few weeks and indeed into the second semester as I may be tempted to post more stuff- I will be on sabbatical so I won’t see you much if at all, but I wish you all the very best with your semester 2 stuff. You know the drill ! You already owe us 150 hours of study work for each 15 credits you take next term, think about that when you recover from the Xmas and New Year hangovers respectively, heheheh…

…and here’s John Eacott’s work, Happy Christmas, Hannukah, Holidays, New Year or whatever occupies your right-brain in justifying this well deserved rest period !!

Julio

Free standalone music studio made with supercollider !

Hi guys !

SuperCollider developer Neil Cosgrove has made available this standalone application made with SuperCollider. It is very cool and he says he made it specifically for Acid Music but hopes to make it more general-purpose soon. I think it is a good chance to see the sort of thing you can make with SuperCollider from the ground up !

Here it is:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lnxstudio/

This is what Neil says:

“It is a standalone music studio that is meant to be…

A simple and friendly way to make music.
A way of doing real-time collaborations over a network.
An open source project with which people can program their own instruments and effects.”

The tutorial on modes and basic patterns…

The one we did in class ! you can download it from HERE
make sure you mess about with all of it !! we will do a new one on tuesday showing you some more ways of organising your music.

best !
julio

Laptop Musicianship tuning and scales tutorial

as promised in class ! find it HERE

Tags: supercollider

Music for one apartment and six drummers

Have you seen this? don’t miss it !!

have a great holiday!
Julio

YouTube – Music for one apartment and six drummers

a good music harmony website

with some excellent interactive explanations, I though you guys may want to deepen your knowledge in some areas discussed in class…

http://www.harmony.org.uk/

Attention Laptop Musos, on your submission date you must…

Actually physically HAND IN the following as individual submissions:
1. graphic score or structure diagram of the Group pieces (2). MUST CREDIT EACH CONTRIBUTOR WITH WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.(you may opt out of this and hand in an individual piece)
2. demo recording on a CD of said pieces (2)
3. a printout of your blog posts including graphics, as short or long as you want, ‘informally academic’ (no need to print out your comments on other people’s blogs)

Atte. Laptop Musos, two things…

actually 3 things…

Thing no.1:

Are you reading the blog? anything communicated this way will be considered as given.

Thing no.2:

Next week I would like to see a first draft of how you would present one of your pieces. We will look at your blogging and then we will look at your performance score which you will have prepared for your group. › Continue reading