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Music 147 assignment for Tuesday June 10, 2014

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“Final Exam”: Presentation of completed programs

The final meeting of this class will take place in the scheduled final exam time:
Tuesday June 10, 10:30-12:30 in CAC 3006
(N.B. Starting time is 10:30, not 11:00.]

1) Plan a 10-minute presentation of your program (one presentation per project). Think of it as a) a concise report on what your program is intended to do, b) a brief demonstration of its use, c) a mention of key features of interest and/or particular challenges for which you had to devise a solution. Because of the limited time of the entire session and the number of programs to be demonstrated, your presentation will have to be finely tuned to that amount of time. (Ten minutes is not much.) You should rehearse your presentation to check that it’s feasible within the allotted time. If it’s a group project, it might not be practical for all members of the group to speak in the presentation, but at least two members of the group should share the speaking duties.

2) Deposit your complete project in the EEE DropBox called “CompleteProject” by the end of the day, Tuesday June 10, 11:59pm. Your project should be accompanied by whatever documentation is necessary for every detail of your program to be understood. That might include a User’s Manual, a “Read Me” file, and/or a prose description (and/or flow chart) describing how the program works. It should certainly include extensive commenting of the code itself. Assume that the reader of your code needs to have just about everything explained or clarified in plain English. (You’ll be glad you did that when you look at your code six months later!)

Gassmann Series concert, Tuesday April 15

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The Gassmann Electronic Music Series presents Shackle, an electro-acoustic music performance duo from The Netherlands, in a concert and workshop on Tuesday April 15, 2014 in the Music Department of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine.

Shackle is Anne LaBerge on flute and electronics and Deckard (a.k.a. Robert van Heumen) on laptop computer. The duo will perform in concert at 8:00 pm in Room 218 of the Music and Media Building at UC Irvine on Tuesday April 15, 2014. Admission is free and open to the public.

Earlier that day in the same location, at 5:00 pm, the two performers will discuss the workings of the digital cueing system that they use in their performance, which acts as an interactive third member of their ensemble. The lecture is open to all.

This concert and workshop are events of the Gassmann Electronic Music Series, an annual series of concerts and lectures focusing on music and computers, produced by the Gassmann Electronic Music Studio in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UCI. For more information, phone 949-824-7288.

How to send a Max patch by email

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You can send a Max patch (or any selected objects from it) to someone else as plain text in an email (or a post like this) by following these steps.

1. In Max, while in Edit mode, select the objects you want to include (or type Command-A to Select All).

2. Choose ‘Copy Compressed’ from the Edit menu.

3. Go to the program where you want to include your patch and choose ‘Paste’ from the Edit menu.

The text that you paste in will look something like the text shown at the bottom of this post. When you receive such text from someone else, to turn it back into a Max patch, follow these steps.

1. Copy the weird-looking text, including the lines that say

———-begin_max5_patcher———
and
———–end_max5_patcher———–

but not the lines that contain the HTML tags ‘<pre><code>’ and ‘</pre></code>’.

2. Go to Max and choose ‘New From Clipboard’ from the File menu.

Try it yourself. This will be a common way for you to send and receive Max patches.

<pre><code>
———-begin_max5_patcher———-
560.3oc0V0taaBCE82vSgk2eyRMNfIr8q8BrWfopIGvP7DXihc1RaU6y97GP
VZKPJsQSsHA1b8E6y4dO9ZtKL.tQdfoffu.9AHH3tvf.mIqgft2CfMzC40Tk
yMXtrogIzvE9wzrCZmcgbIPVBn6K3RP9VpPvpU8d0R04a4hpetikq8qFFgVh
V.hHqcM3DaC1XCbc2GwKbSrbyu9LNtelJkBsf1vbC8scbZc+Hh8MbQMS6fYz
+LJ2q6shNYRT7acSRDdIxZ89vP6iEuwvfrkI.TfRtWT.J40rIBAqhVlYuHF9
ihcgADdxv.9iRXvKCjhqjkkSDAhhczFicMoqlj7n2ajmcaAM+gonGwqwW6nW
bR+ygnWDYPRfGlDuBz1vTJZEaPE6Dbf3ElXGSVk54yHTXtYngIWzHYnNydO0
2zx7.DBAWeAUtJMcm9JkV1ddca2tVeVdLca1GqRWlxVs0zaLc5pkelhXYDK4
W6E5IwSEIReuEIzxppIIW+FX7wL73riLCNDMlVlaxKuJ4rf8GCHdtZtzlLe.
feAjLwc1Sp4PozTbR53LM4hrMe0L2lq3UB6BbZuMTQE7HDUze267m9tyQO6s
cM2XWhLiXHIxaA90GGrcyDrlKd5uD4hZV6ONCXNkeWd+R1EY.QGwSASo4Bpl
KEm3isP+INskWTvDmJra3EsRiPnCCiHGlCjPuDHg9uAI64DmESIyCRl+cHYg
qtrsgjc7s2HVIWdn9DIW38g+Eb7fmdI
———–end_max5_patcher———–
</code></pre>

CAMP2014 Piazza Site

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I’ve created a Piazza class called CAMP2014.

The Piazza site allows you to ask a question, provide an answer to someone else’s question, or simply make a statement/announcement (a “Note”). A Note can be edited by other group members, and thus could potentially become a little mini-Wiki. There’s also a EEE Wiki for this course, which might be more suitable for freeform wikiing if class members really get into creating a repository of information for the class.

Piazza has a couple advantages over the EEE MessageBoard structure, such as a Mobile App, personalization of your own feed of messages, etc.

We’ll use the Piazza group as the primary forum for questions and answers (and subsequent discussions) in the course, rather than the EEE MessageBoard. I’ll continue to post Assignments, Examples, and Blog Posts on this WordPress site, but I’ll check in there regularly, too. I won’t rush to answer questions, though, as I prefer to encourage you to help each other, to engender collegiality and collaboration.