Reading Response #4 to Artful Design • Chapter 4: “Programmability & Sound Design”

 Celeste Betancur Gutierrez
10/23/2022
Music 256A / CS476a, Stanford University

This response was an exercise to Sound Design Principle 4.3 ('Build complexity as the sum of simple elements'), Principle 4.4 ('Local independence - Global Coordination') and, Principle 4.5 ('Design things with a computer that would not be possible without!')


Sample list

  • acid
  • bass
  • bassdrum
  • clap
  • cowbell
  • cymbal
  • dah
  • hardsynth
  • hihat
  • most
  • openhat
  • pad
  • pluck
  • reversed
  • snare
  • tambourine

Copy and paste the following text (in bold), then hit run (then improvise -using the same syntax-
bassdrum+--;
bass+-++-+;
clap----+-;