Music 270C: Compositional Algorithms

Music 270C: Compositional Algorithms
Spring quarter 2011. University of California, San Diego
https://msp.ucsd.edu/syllabi/270c.11s/

Mondays, 2-4:50, CPMC 265.
Instructor: Professor Miller Puckette , CPMC 251, msp@ucsd.edu, https://msp.ucsd.edu/

The course is organized along ten general topics as follows:

transformations on series, considered as pitches and rhythms
sets, intervals, and statistics
software and `Computer Aided Composition'
stochastic processes 1: Discrete-time processes
stochastic processes 2: Multivariate and Continuous-time processes
combinatorial optimization and constraint problems
generative algorithms (fractals, etc.; linguistic parsers and generators
machine learning approaches
Viterbi algorithm, score following and beat tracking
quantization and interpolation

There will be biweekly programming assignments over the ten weeks of the course.

Here is ASSIGNMENT 1, due Monday, April 11.

Here is ASSIGNMENT 2, due Monday, April 25.

Here is ASSIGNMENT 3, due Monday, May 23.

Assignment 4 is to make a riff on the Who's acid-driven organ solo HERE.

Here are archives of patches, markov code updates, and the kmeans demo as of 5/24. FINAL MEETING: we're planning to meet to give all of you a chance to show off your efforts, 10AM Thursday, June 9, usual place.