Music 270C: Compositional Algorithms

Music 270C: Compositional Algorithms
Spring quarter 2019. University of California, San Diego
https://msp.ucsd.edu/syllabi/270c.19s/

Fridays, 2-5, CPMC 367.
Instructor: Professor Miller Puckette , CPMC 251, msp@ucsd.edu, https://msp.ucsd.edu

Topics:

Apr 5. representations of pitch and frequency
Apr 12. set operations and interpolations
Apr 19. stochastic processes
Apr 26. guest speaker, Gerard Assayag
May 3. tone rows, sets, and all that
May 10. Generative algorithms (L systems, fractals and chaos, linguistic parser/generators). Here is a paper of interest; see also Cope, David. "Computer modeling of musical intelligence in EMI." Computer Music Journal 16.2 (1992): 69-83.
May 17. combinatorial optimization and constraint problems
May 24. representations of time
May 31. machine learning algorithms
June 7. composing at the level of signals

There will be three assignments over the quarter. Here are ASSIGNMENT 1 due week 2 or 3, ASSIGNMENT 2, due May 10 or 17, and ASSIGNMENT 3, due anytime this quarter. we'll look at these in class as they come in.
Here are patches (may 31), screen movies and blackboards.