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April 9, 2008

Some resources for speeches and sound recordings

1. We have access to this sample set.
2. Check out Ubu.com, specifically the sound section.
3. And then, there's freesound.

Video Tracking with Max/MSP/Jitter

There's a simple color tracking tutorial patch that comes with the Max/MSP/Jitter installer.

Much more sophisticated tracking can be accomplished with the cv.jit package.
Download it, place the externals in MaxMSP/Jitter's search path and try out the help files.

April 8, 2008

Arduino BlueTooth and Computer with Max/MSP

April 7, 2008

Video Analysis in Max/MSP/Jitter

cv.jit (Intel OpenCV library ported to Jitter, good for tracking, analysis, shape recognition, ...):

http://maxobjects.com/?v=libraries&id_library=19&requested=cv.jit&operateur=AND&id_plateforme=0

Audio Analysis in MaxMSP

Audio analysis:

Analyzer~ (good for harmonic sounds, gives you pitch, spectrum, loudness, brightness, ...):
http://maxobjects.com/?v=objects&id_objet=104&requested=analyzer~&operateur=AND&id_plateforme=0

Yin~ (from IRCAM, only pitch, no spectrum/brightness/...., but very good for pitch):
http://forumnet.ircam.fr/?L=1
(write to ali if you have trouble finding it)

Envfol1~ (from IRCAM "Jimmies", event based envelop-follower for analyzing loudness):
http://forumnet.ircam.fr/?L=1
(write to ali if you have trouble finding it)

bonk~ (from UCSD, audio signal an attack detector, tells you when and also what):
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~tapel/software.html

February 16, 2008

African and Indian musical examples

...from class on Feb. 13, 2008 are here.

These musical examples are mostly from North India and West Africa, but also some surprises....

January 30, 2008

Optimal experience: Psychological studies of flow in consciousness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Optimal experience: Psychological studies of flow in consciousness.

Author: Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly [Ed] M [
Date: 1988
ISBN: 0-521-34288-0

The principles of psychology by William James

Title: The principles of psychology
Author: James William W
Date: 1890

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Hearing in Time by Justin London

Title: Hearing in Time
Author: London Justin. J
Date: 2004
ISBN: 0-19-516081-9

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