Programming Digital Media
Making and modifying digital media
by writing custom software for Mac OS X
A class at Machine Project
taught by Andy Kopra
Programming Digital Media is a class about the implications of
software programming for artistic practice. During our final meeting
on February 26 we took a look at Csound
and
talked about the relationship of digital sound synthesis to our ideas
about imagery and animation from the previous classes. We also heard
a presentation from Doug Barrett about his procedural music notation
and composition systems. Much beeping could heard from student
laptops running Csound scores, complemented by the procedural scores
created by the
Python scripts
that Doug distributed. There was interest in the
class in learning more about Doug's work, and I'll be adding more
links to the syllabus to point to Doug's work and related efforts.
I'm going to maintain this website as a resource for the students
of the class. At some point, I may need to expand the website beyond
the structure imposed by the five week schedule of our original class,
but I'll put pointers to any new work I do in this page.
To the students: thanks for attending the class, and keep those
randomly shaped black images and 50,000 character musical scores
coming!
Andy Kopra
ack@acm.org
