Final presentations are due Tuesday, March 19, 3-6 PM, in the classroom. Every student will get a chance to demonstrate his or her project to the class, which should take the form pf a Pd patch, possibly with supporting files. We'll work out a quick way of sequencing people's patches so that we can get through everything in the three hours alloted. We'll also ask you to turn in the patch in the usual way.

Possible project ideas:

• Make a patch that simulates a person on a telephone - each time there's silence on the 'other end' (the microphone) spit out a recorded sentence randomly out of a collection (perhaps an actor's lines in a movie). Then see if you can make two copies of the patch have a "converation" between them. (Or have it answer your phone at home when telemarketers call).
• Make a 'tape piece' using pd-synthesized sounds - that is, a patch that, when you hit 'start', unleashes a sequence of notes or other sounds, perhaps lasting a minute, that can be listened to musically.
• Make a drum machine/sequencer. A 4/4 rhythm will be fine. It should play a loop of percussive sounds, preferably with variations from cycle to cycle.
• Make an interactive playable "laptop instrument" (using keys to set things off, and perhaps the mouse as a controller.) For example, you could have some repeating sample loops, a couple of layers of drum beats, and a solo voice playing from a 'nemu' of notes triggered from the computer keyboard.
• Make a patch that plays a Bach 2-part invention. You can use the "qlist" object to play a sequence (or the "seq" object from Pd extended if you prefer). (Note: we haven't yet seen either of these objects in class; you might have to find out how to use them independently!) There should be a 2-voice synthesizer in the patch to play the sequence, preferably with two distinct sounds.
• Make a pitch corrector that you talk into (or play sampled speech through) and that corrects the pitch to fall on a fixed musical scale (like the commercial Melodyne software).
• Interface a game controller or a joystick to Pd and make a computer music instrument where continuous controllers change parameters of some syntehsis algorithm; or, alternatively, get Pd to send network or MIDI messages to another application so that the loudness of the mic signal makes a graphical display move or change.
• Experiment with random processes: make a random note generator that gives you some kind of intersting control (changeable pitch collections, or make choices depend on past choices, or change the relative probability of various outcomes with time). Make this drive a polyphonic note playing patch to make random melodies, chords, or an entire musical composition.
• (For computer hackers only): write your own extrnal Pd object that does something you couldn't find in Pd vanilla, such as a bit crusher.
• More exotic yet: invent your own input device or servo-controlled robot and make a Pd patch that reacts to input or makes the robot do something. You'll need something like a Pi or an arduino+PC to pull this off.
• Make up your own project idea (come to office hours to talk about it first.)