Music 220b: Winter 2001 Resources

Music 220b: Winter 2001
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, instructor
Christopher Burns, teaching assistant
Tamara Smyth, teaching assistant

Resources calendar:

Week 1: January 9, 2001
introduction to Lisp and CLM: 1. setting up emacs and the lisp environment; 2. compiling and loading prefabricated CLM instruments; 3. using the (with-sound) macro; 4. the /zap directory
Lisp and CLM documentation, resources, and examples (from Matthew Burtner): 1. An extensive index of functions and other entities in Lisp: Common Lisp Index; 2. Juan Pampin's Lisp Workshop for Musicians; 3. Guy Steele's Common Lisp the Language (second edition); 4. Tulane University's Interactive Lisp Tutorial; 5. Bill Schottstaedt's Common Lisp Music Manual

Week 2: January 16, 2001
more Lisp and CLM basics: 1. lisp interpreter commands; 2. playback: snd, sndplay, and (dac); 3. lists: the fundamental lisp data type; 4. the loop macro; 5. global and local variables; 6. logic: if / cond
reverberators you might use....: 1. nrev; 2. jcrev

Week 3: January 23, 2001
supplemental materials: 1. discography; 2. bibliography
Lisp data structures: 1. arrays; 2. arrays v. lists
algorithmic composition: 1. random values in composition
CLM tricks and techniques: 1. instrument design tricks; 2. structuring a large score

Week 4: January 30, 2001
Lisp data structures: 1. association lists
algorithmic composition: 1. generic state machine example; 2. generic nondeterministic machine variant; 3. composition project proposal requirements

Week 6: February 13, 2001
algorithmic composition: 1. "elastics" rhythm generation examples; 2. self-similarity rhythm generation examples

Week 7: February 20, 2001
audio processing: 1. the delay unit generator; 2. echo-file.ins echo generator; 3. echo-train.ins multiple echo generator; 4. comb-filter.ins filter; 5. flanger.ins flanging effect