MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture Notes - Fall 2017 Lecture 11 - Generative art, Scalability, Electroacoustic music
21 Sep 2018
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Generally: computer music / electroacoustic music / sound art. With an emphasis on computer music in live performance settings (life electronics) More specifically: live coding and network music. Performances (experimental) and software along with writing about both. Childhood experiences are dictated by the matrix and the type of parents we have. Early home computer (1983) - distributed by radio shack. Came with a how to program book. Project, brainchild of machitusus of technology (program for drawing - moving a turtle around the screen in order to draw things) Linus - free and open source software (foss) - hacking. Heyday of domestic internet (everyone having access to it - not just specialized environments anymore) Blow up of interest in open sources. Different relationship to computer and programming, writing small programs, gaining feedback and using intuition to think of other changes to improve the program. Played in the same room, multiple computers and synthesisers in one room.
