OpenMusic: Introduction

Introductory Level

Prerequisite
Knowledge of music theory, musical notation, and rhythm. Mastery of the Macintosh environment (OS X).

Upon completion of the two introductory courses participants will have had a complete view of the possibilities available in OpenMusic. They will be able to use the main functions of OpenMusic (e.g. create and open a workspace, load a library), to create simple patches, to represent and play musical sequences with the tools available  n OpenMusic (chord, chord-seq, voice, multi-seq, poly, and model), and to import and generate MIDI and text files from OpenMusic. Participants will be able to import and extract data from AudioSculpt, via SDIF folders.

Description

This introductory-level course introduces participants to the use of a graphical programming environment as a composer:

• discovery and use of the OpenMusic interface
• creation of patches, with the use of musical editors
• algorithmic generation of musical sequences