Assignment 1a

For next Wednesday I've asked you to go through the first 9 Max tutorials, as well as the first few MSP and Jitter tutorials. In Max tutorial 6, "Simple math in Max," there are instructions for making a Fahrenheit - Celsius converter. Before class next Wednesday, please make one of these converters and email it to me. Besides following the instructions, try to customize it: include some sliders or dials (covered in tutorial 7); change fonts, change colors - just to make it more personal, and to give you experience in designing a user interface (albeit a very simple one).

Good luck and have fun! If you run into trouble, please shoot me an email anytime.

Hi, all. My name is Daniel Swilley. I am a 2nd year DMA composition major. My experience with MAX/Msp is mostly from the stand point of building algorithmic composition tools, and a few FM and grainular instruments... I have a number of years experience with electroacoustic music and have come to feel comfortable with the medium and my capabilities. However, I've never done anything with live processing or interactive performance. I'm looking forward to exploring these things as well as getting to the chance to play again. Trumpet is my primary instrument, but I also play flute. Also, I also have an interest in conducting so perhaps that will translate to some cool experiments with wii controlers governing performance parameters... Time will tell.

Mackenzie Danner

I'm Mackenzie Danner, aka TechnoFlute.  I am a Doctoral student in flute performance and am also completing a B.S.E.E. (Electrical Engineering).  I have a B.M. and M.M. from Northwestern University in Flute Performance and Music Technology.  I studied with Walfrid Kujala, former piccoloist of the Chicago Symphony.

I have been working on combining flute with self-produced techno music.  I'm very interested in hard techno, trance, vocal trance, and dance music.  I want to create percussive sounds in flute to incorporate into drum beats.  I also want to use signal processing on melodic lines as in traditional trance and techno except replace the vocal part with flute.  And I would also in the future like to create several TechnoFlute music videos.  

Hi, my name is Justin Kothenbeutel. I am a 2nd year masters piano performance major. I am taking this course because I want to learn more about how to compose in electronic media. It will also be fun since I was also a composition major for my undergrad.

I'm Dee; a composition undergrad. I'm here because I fall asleep after five minutes of reading the MAX/MSP manual.

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hey my name is john. i am a dma student and have wanted to learn max/msp for about 6 years now. i am excited about our class and i'm looking forward to whatever collaborative efforts the future holds.  have a nice day!

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Heyo all,
My name is Cheryl Krugel, and I'm a senior studying Music Composition. I've worked with a program that is kind of like an elementary version of MAX/MSP/JITTER--called Isadora (http://www.troikatronix.com/isadora.html); it was developed by a composer/choreographer team, and allows one to create patches using video, audio, midi, and other components. Other than that, I've mostly worked with acoustic music. I'm excited to learn MAX/MSP and create cool sounds with it :).