The History of Algorithmic Composition

Contemporary Music Review

Study Notes

• Programming Electronic Music in PD

Research Groups

Brazilian

• CME. UFRGS.
• NICS. Unicamp.
• Genos. UFBA.
• Barulho.
• Lamut. UFRJ.
• LAMI. USP.

International

• MTG. Music Technology Group. University of Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona. Spain.
• SARC. Sonic Arts Research Centre. Queens University.
• CCRMA. Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Stanford.
• CNMAT. The Center for the New Music and Audio Technologies. Berkeley.
• CARG. Computational Arts Research Group.
• STEIM. Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) is the only independent live electronic music centre in the world that is exclusively dedicated to the performing arts.
• FO.AM.
• ICCMR. Interdisciplinary Center for Computer Music Research.
• Crud Labs. Physical computing + music.
• Ensemble Pample Mousse
• Nullsleep (8bitpeople)
• FATIMA Institut
• MuCoaCo
• artshare. Enterprise at .pt.
• OpenLab

Foundations

International

• PRS Foundation for the new music

Events

Brazilian

• SBCM. Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Musical.
  • Date: September
  • Deadline: June 15
• FILE. Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica.
• PdCon

International

• Red Bull Music Academy.
  • Date: February - March
  • Deadline: May 11
• ICMC.
  • Date: August
  • Deadline: May 15
• sound:frame
  • Date: March - April
  • Deadline:
• The Producers Conference
• Future Sonic (Becomes Future Everything at 2010)
  • Date: May 15

People

Brazilian

• Pedro Kröger
• Geber Ramalho
• Guilherme Lunhani
• Rodolfo Caezar
• Ibrasotope. And here.
• N-1. Duo of Alexandre Fenerich e Giuliano Obici. And here.
• Marcelo Queiroz. USP.
• Alexandre Torres Porres.
• Fernando Iazzetta.
• Jônatas Manzolli. Unicamp. NICS.

International

• Ge Wang. Chuckian. ChucK creator. Smule and SlorK header.
• Karl Bartos
• Kassen Oud. Chuckian.
• Giles Bowkett. The creator of Archeopteryx.
• Tom Lieber. Chuckian. Interesting projects using ChucK and Processing (even ArX).
• DanTrueman. One of PLOrk founders.
• Perry Cook. One of PLOrk founders.
• Max Tertinegg. Monomian.
• Dave Griffiths. Fluxus creator.
• Eduardo Reck Miranda.
• Michael Clemow. Chuckian. NYC.
• Joe Mariglio.
• Anthony Jay Ptak.
• Natacha Pop.
• Douglas Irving Repetto
• Johannes Kreidler
  • Author of the PD Tutorial. Composer.
• Project Endphase
• Nick Collins
• Moldover. He destroys controllers and build personalized ones.
• Elena Jessop. MIT Media Lab Msc student. She has a glove to controll vocal.
• Elaine Chew. Member of MuCoaCo]]
• João Ricardo de Barros Oliveira. Sound-sculptor.
• Rui Penha.
• Andrew R. Brown
• [[http://www.mcld.co.uk/ | Dan Stowell]. SuperCollider livecoder.
• Leafcutter John. Hand made folk electronics.
• Sarah Angliss. Electroplasmic music.
• Marco Donnarumma (The Sad). PDer. Live artist.

Software

• Max/MSP
• Pure Data
• SuperCollider
• ChucK
• Impromptu
• Common Music
• Ableton Live
• AudioMulch (used by Girl Talk)
• AC Toolbox (Lisp, to help algorithmic composition)
• Traktor
• Apple Studio
• Archeopteryx. Ruby MIDI generator.
• Jamin. JACK Mastering.
• Hydrogen. Beat Machine.
• FreeWheeling
• JACK
• SonicBirth. Plugins.
• SooperLooper. Looper.
• ZynAddSubFX
• Ardour
• Audacity
• LMMS. Another DAW.
• LADSPA. Effects.
• energyXT. Nonfree. GNU/Linux.
• Open Octave Project. A project to build softwares to audio composition.
• JackBeat. Sequencer.
• Traverso. Another DAW.
• Jucetice, Juce, Jost and other plugins. A project to use GNU/Linux for audio production.
• Grimonium
  • A Processing library to use with KORG microKontrol.
• Fluxus
  • Scheme livecoding environment.
• Scheme Bricks
  • Based on Fluxus.
• Remix
  • Python API do manipulate audio with ease.
• Haskell Hack
  • Livecoding (using OSC?) with Haskell
• BeatMachine
  • Beat sequencer with beer bottles.

There're a list of JACK compatible programs here.

Labels

• Psicotropicodelia A netlabel. Free.
• Container INC. Netlabel from Brazil. Gengivas Negras. Fetalcohol.

References

• The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music. Online at http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques.htm
• Music: a Mathematical Offering. Online at http://www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/~bensondj/html/maths-music.html
• A small flamewar started here and got an response here. It's about Archeopteryx X ChucK.
• ChucK: A Computer Music Programming Language. Stanford lecture by Ge Wang. Online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpk461T6l4&feature=related
• Programming Electronic Music in PD
• DSP Guide
• Introduction to Digital Filters
• PD Tutorial
• Free/Open Source MacOS X Audio Software
• Ardour 2 Tutorial
• Introduction to Linux & Audio
• Wonderful Bibliography from Nick Collins
• Tutoriais de Áudio e Acústica. Fernando Iazzetta.