Multimodal Media Madness (WS 06/07) - Assignment 1

Announcements:

• Due to lab downtimes, Assignment 8 (Interactivity in Quartz Composer) deadline has been extended to Wednesday, January 10 at 23:59.

Schedule:

The following schedule is tentative and may change as the semester progresses.

Chapter 1: Max and MIDI

• Oct 23: Introduction (no assignment this week)
• Oct 30: Hello, Max
• Nov 6: My first Sequencer
• Nov 13: Java Sequencer

Chapter 2: MSP and Digital Audio

• Nov 20: Introduction to Digital Audio
• Skeleton project: tonegen.zip
• Nov 27: Pitch, Harmonics and Telephony
• Link to a Java applet which plays DTMF tones (for reference)
• Dec 4: What Tone Is It?
• ToneGenerator.jar
• fiddle.help.zip

Chapter 3: Motion Graphics, Video & Interactivity

• Dec 11: Introduction to Quartz Composer
• Composition output movie
• Dec 18: Interactivity in Quartz Composer
• aachen_map.jpg
• aachen_map.sat
• Jan 8: Project Proposal, Brainstorming
• Final Deliverables

Chapter 4: Final Project

• Jan 15: Project Week 1
• Jan 22: Project Week 2
• Jan 29: Project Week 3
• Feb 05: Project presentation

Final Projects:

MuToNo WuHaGoBa (Music to Notes) Hao Wu, Andreas Hahne, Stefan Gottschalk, Christian Baart

Disco Stu - Dance with you! Alexander Grinin, Steffen Kirchhoff, Stephan Peitz, Kelvin Phan

Orchestra @ Home Sebastian Kaufmann, Christoph Will. Sebastian Burger, Benjamin Hilgers

Movie Music Maker Sören Busch, Niklas Hoppe, Bahram Maleki-Fard