RE: [Csnd] How to motivate students starting with Csound
| Date | 2012-02-09 16:49 |
| From | jpff |
| Subject | RE: [Csnd] How to motivate students starting with Csound |
I used to teach a 1-semester course on Music and DSP to Computer Science finalists, with a few mathematicians and the odd physicist. The motivation for them to learn Csound was largely that there was an assignment to write a short piece in Csound. These students were typically NOT musicians beyond the occasional "I am in a band", but most years there would be 1 or two really interested in music. But.... I tried to motivate by playing lots of examples in differing styles. I always got a good response from Tobias Enhus's "Electric Priest" which has elements of a beat, and interesting voice processing. I also played stuff from techno to very classical (such as Munro's Dry River -- not Csound), and of course some of my own to put them off, and frequent squeaking doors. Play lists may still be hanging about the 'net. The thrust of the course was really DSP and instrument modelling, but I used Csound for technical demos, phase vocoding, granular etc, including the FResponse program from the Audio Programming Book, the program being available to them as well. Tuning and psychoacoustics were similarly illustrated/ The results of the class can be found for 2001, 2009 and 2010 at http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/jpff/CM30142/CourseMusic08.html http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/jpff/CM30142/CourseMusic09.html http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/jpff/CM30142/CourseMusic10.html Some information on course is also there at http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/jpff/CM30142 ==John ffitch |
| Date | 2012-02-09 18:02 |
| From | J Clements |
| Subject | RE: [Csnd] How to motivate students starting with Csound |
John, these results and the descriptions are very nice, and inspiring! Thank you much for sharing this. John C On Feb 9, 2012 11:49 AM, "jpff" <jpff@cs.bath.ac.uk> wrote:
I used to teach a 1-semester course on Music and DSP to Computer |