Week 13, Music
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Describe some charateristics of a note, including its ASDR envelope
- Use the SimpleSynth class to alter a note
- Describe some charateristics of a melody
Materials
Schedule
| Time | ESA | Type | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3:50 | Review+Engage | Discussion | Homework Review |
| 4:20 | Study | Lecture | Why Music Intro |
| 4:35 | Study | Lecture | Examples of Comp Music |
| 4:45 | Study | Lecture | Today’s Format |
| 4:50 | Activate+Study | Activity+Lecture | Synthesizing a Note |
| 5:15 | Break | - | Break |
| 5:20 | Activate+Study | Activity+Lecture | Playing a Melody |
| 5:45 | Activate+Study | Activity+Lecture | Generating a Melody |
| 6:15 | Activate | Discussion | Code To Spec |
| 6:25 | Study | Lecture | Homework |
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| Duration | Time | Purpose | Format | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 3:50 | Review+Engage | Discussion | Homework Review |
| 15 | 4:20 | Study | Lecture | Why Music Intro |
| 10 | 4:35 | Study | Lecture | Examples of Comp Music |
| 5 | 4:45 | Study | Lecture | Today’s Format |
| 25 | 4:50 | Activate+Study | Activity+Lecture | Synthesizing a Note |
| 5 | 5:15 | Break | - | Break |
| 25 | 5:20 | Activate+Study | Activity+Lecture | Playing a Melody |
| 30 | 5:45 | Activate+Study | Activity+Lecture | Generating a Melody |
| 10 | 6:15 | Activate | Discussion | Code To Spec |
| 5 | 6:25 | Study | Lecture | Homework |
Outline
Homework Review
| Group | Question |
|---|---|
| 1 | Choose a common theme that has appeared in several pieces. Discuss the theme and two example sketches. |
| 2 | Choose a sketch that visualizes sound. Discuss the relationship between the sound and visual. |
| 3 | Choose a computational sound. Try to describe the sound in detail, so that someone could recreate it without hearing it. |
| 4 | Choose a work with a strong audio-visual relationship that is not an audio visualization. |
| 5 | Many of the sounds generated have a similar sound. Choose a sketch that achieves a unique character. |
| 6 | The challenge is not a competition. Who won? |
Notes
We are doing music!
- Good response last week, and a high interest for more audio.
- Some very good sketches this week.
- We didn’t cover any comp sound tactics.
- We didn’t cover any comp sound precedents.
- I thought about why the music week went poorly last time, and decided that the problem isn’t that many of you don’t have a musical background. The problem is that I planned a lesson that needed one and tried to crash-course a music background it too little time, with too little knowledge.
- I really liked using these speakers.
But the real reason is:
- What do you think about me?
- I care about this class and am willing to put in as much as I expect from you
- That I’m still learning.
- Job Talk: Teaching Philosophy
- Jean Piaget: Constructivism
- Learning is an active process of reconstructing knowledge, rather than a transfer of knowledge
- Learning is rooted in experience.
- Seymour Papert: Contructionism (Epistemology and Learning Research Group)
- student-centered, project-based learning
- learning is supported by an environment rich in models of different types
- our individual knowledge is network of existing ideas and models
- learning is individual and based on available models
- I now believe that
- you can learn to be smarter, developing a strong network ideas makes learning new ideas easier
- Comp Form: student-centered, activity-based, variety of models, even the blog post
- Music: worked in reverse for me, learning about music helped me reframe my exisiting models