Miller Puckette

Department of Music
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0099

... and ...

IRCAM, Paris, France

msp@ucsd.edu

Photo: Brad Garton 2001

Free open source software:

• Pure Data (Pd): documentation; download
  
• Pure Data Repertory Project (PDRP): documentation; download
  
• smeck, the six-channel guitar processor: documentation; download
  
• Fast, high quality peer-to-peer network audio for musicians: quacktrip
  
• Audio tools realized in Pd
  Some other ideas for musicians

Books, articles, and videos:

• Classes taught at UCSD
  
• Music Department Lecture Series: Voice as Musical Instrument (2019)
  
• Recorded music, research talks, and class lectures with a searchable table of class contents
  
• Book (online or paper): Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music
  
• Rhy by Ed Harkins (DRAFT): HTML; PDF; audio files.
  
• other publications
  

• Biographical note
  
• Past and upcoming events

We want colleges to be theaters of learning, but they function just as much as theaters of culling. Those are warring, contradictory dynamics. -Frank Bruni in theNew York Times. (Bret Stevens agrees:) I still have a folder with most of my college essays, and they are terrible. I became a better writer because of, not despite, that convoluted, overstuffed prose.