• Report of Previous Delivery of Course
• Outline Semester 1
• Outline Semester 2
• Summary
• Outcomes

• Assessments
• Sem 1 Project/Task Summary
• Sem 2 Project/Task Summary
• Workshop and Tutorial Times
• Assessment Criteria
• Reading/Listening List
• WebCT

• WebCT CMP Forum
• Help with WebCT
• rhoadley.org CMP Forum
• Statement on Plagiarism
• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

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In this course students undertake study in high and middle-level programming languages, investigating modes of interaction with hardware and software as well as graphical user Interface design and its effect on musical creation and performance. In order to help understand the nature of technology and its effect on music, students are asked to undertake a series of tasks culminating in the conception of a project of their own devising, for instance, a composition - either algorithmic or for live performance, a piece of functional music software, a performance tool based around a game controller or graphics tablet, or software for use over the Internet. Students will submit their collected exercises in a portfolio, to be accompanied by a brief critical evaluation, which should reference the current literature on creative music programming and should place the student's work in the context of current trends in creative music programming as well as providing a basis for the student's own criteria and judgement.

1. utilise knowledge of a variety of hardware resources through customised software control.
2. demonstrate a knowledge of digital sound from a creative, theoretical and practical standpoint.
3. create simple audio/MIDI software for utility, investigative or creative purposes.
4. discuss and assess their own work objectively.
5. appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to the human/machine interface.
6. create a pre-recorded or live composition in which distinctive and original sounds are derived from one or more of these hardware resources.

Assessment
• In this course, you will be asked to work on a series of tasks and projects.

• Twelve tasks are taken throughout the course; of these six are submitted and these are worth 4% each of the entire course. There is a summary of tasks and projects here.

• It is recommended that either the MaxMSP project or the SuperCollider project should usually be completed in week 12 of semester one (12i).
• This project is valued at 18% of the entire course.

• It is recommended that the Jitter/Image project should be completed in week 12 of semester two (12ii).
• This project is valued at 18% of the entire course.

• It is recommended that the Individual project should be completed in week 12 of semester two (12ii).
• This project is valued at 40% of the entire course.
• It is highly recommended that you use all software at some point in these projects.

• Each task must be accompanied by sufficient documentation to ensure smooth demonstration of the task. Usually this documentation is best situated within the relevant patch, very MaxMSP or SC. More details here.

• Each project (not task) must be accompanied by a short commentary (approximately 200 words maximum) in text outlining your goals, achievements and experiences.

• Unless otherwise stated, tasks should be submitted via WebCT. Click here for the submission location.

Submission
The final deadline for final submission of all material is 2pm on Tuesday 8th May 2018.

It is essential that you read this document for full details of your submission.

The final deadline for final submission of all material is 2pm on Tuesday 8th May 2018.

Your work will be marked according to the criteria set out in the document Artefact Creation

You are entitled to written feedback on your performance for all your assessed 
work. For all assessment tasks which are not examinations, this is provided by a 
member of academic staff completing the assignment coversheet on which your mark 
and feedback will relate to the achievement of the module's intended learning 
outcomes and the assessment criteria you were given for the task when it was 
first issued.

Examination scripts are retained by Anglia Ruskin and are not returned to 
students. However, you are entitled to feedback on your performance in an 
examination and may request a meeting with the Module Leader or Tutor to see 
your examination script and to discuss your performance.

Anglia Ruskin is committed to providing you with feedback on all assessed work 
within 20 working days of the submission deadline or the date of an examination. 
This is extended to 30 days for feedback for a Major Project module (please note 
that working days excludes those days when Anglia Ruskin University is 
officially closed; e.g.: between Christmas and New Year). Personal tutors will 
offer to read feedback from several modules and help you to address any common 
themes that may be emerging.

At the main Anglia Ruskin University campuses, each Faculty will publish details 
of the arrangement for the return of your assessed work (e.g.: a marked essay or 
case study etc.). Any work that is not collected by you from the Faculty within 
this timeframe is returned to the iCentres from where you can subsequently 
collect it. The iCentres retain student work for a specified period prior to its 
disposal. 

To assure ourselves that our marking processes are comparable with other 
universities in the UK, Anglia Ruskin provides samples of student assessed work 
to external examiners as a routine part of our marking processes. External 
examiners are experienced academic staff from other universities who scrutinise 
your work and provide Anglia Ruskin academic staff with feedback and advice. 
Many of Anglia Ruskin's staff act as external examiners at other universities.

On occasion, you will receive feedback and marks for pieces of work that you 
completed in the earlier stages of the module. We provide you with this feedback 
as part of the learning experience and to help you prepare for other assessment 
tasks that you have still to complete. It is important to note that, in these 
cases, the marks for these pieces of work are unconfirmed as the processes 
described above for the use of external examiners will not have been completed. 
This means that, potentially, marks can change, in either direction!

Marks for modules and individual pieces of work become confirmed on the Dates 
for the Official Publication of Results, which can be checked at http://www.anglia.ac.uk/results.

You are reminded that any work that you submit must be your own. All suspected 
assessment offences will be investigated and can result in severe penalties.  
Please note that it is your responsibility to consult the relevant sections of 
the Academic Regulations (section 10 - see www.anglia.ac.uk/academicregs) and 
the Student Handbook.

When you are preparing your work for submission, it is important that you 
understand the various academic conventions that you are expected to follow in 
order to make sure that you do not leave yourself open to accusations of 
plagiarism (e.g.: the correct use of referencing, citations, footnotes etc.) and 
that your work maintains its academic integrity.

Plagiarism is theft and constitutes the presentation of another's work as your 
own in order to gain an unfair advantage. You will receive advice and guidance 
on how to avoid plagiarism and other elements of poor academic practice during 
the early stages of your studies at Anglia Ruskin.

Guidance on being honest in your work
Introduction
Being honest in your work is at the heart of studying and working at university. 
To be honest in your work you must acknowledge the ideas and work of others you 
use, and you must not try to get an advantage over others by being dishonest. It 
is important that you understand what it means to be honest in your work. 
Although there is general agreement within the UK academic community about the 
types of activity that are unacceptable, this does vary slightly between 
institutions, and may be different from where you studied before.

We have developed this guidance to help you understand what it means to be 
honest in your work, and what you should do to make sure that you are handing in 
work that meets our expectations. This means we can make sure that we can 
maintain reliable standards for our academic awards, and students continue to 
enjoy studying for academic qualifications that have a good reputation. In this 
guidance we will:

-	clearly define what being honest in your work and good practice mean, and 
how you can achieve this; 
-	define 'assessment offences', including plagiarism, cheating and collusion; 
-	identify the resources, help and advice available to help you learn the 
academic skills you need to avoid committing assessment offences; 
-	explain how we expect you to behave; and 
-	describe what happens if we think you have committed an assessment offence. 

Being honest in your work and good practice
You can show good practice when you do your work independently, honestly and in 
a proper academic style, using good referencing and acknowledging all of your 
sources.  

To show good academic practice you must: 

-	show you understand the literature; 
-	use research from academics and others in your area of study; 
-	discuss and evaluate ideas and theories; 
-	develop your own independent evaluation of academic issues; and
-	develop your own arguments. 

To support your own good practice you will need to develop your:
 
-	skills at studying and getting information (for example, reading, taking 
notes, research and so on); 
-	skills in looking at an argument and making your own evaluation (for 
example, having a balanced opinion, using reasoning and argument); 
-	writing skills for essays, reports, dissertations and so on; 
-	referencing skills (how you include your sources of information in your 
work); and
-	exam techniques (for example, revising and timing).

Achieving good practice is not as complicated as it may appear. You need to do 
the following.

-	Know the rules. 
-	Make sure you reference all of your information sources. Poor practice or 
dishonesty in your work (such as plagiarism, cheating, fraud and so on) can be a 
result of you not knowing what you are allowed to do. 
-	Develop your own style. Sometimes students include too much original text 
from the work of others, as they believe that they cannot 'put it any better'. 
Although you should try to express ideas in your own words, quoting or summing 
up ideas from academic sources is fine, as long as you say where you have taken 
this from. You must also reference other people's performances or art in your 
own work. It fine to use other people's performances and art, but you must be 
completely clear about why you are using that work, and make sure it is obvious 
that it isn't your own.

Definitions of assessment offences
Plagiarism is when you present someone else's work, words, images, ideas, 
opinions or discoveries, whether published or not, as your own. It is also when 
you take the artwork, images or computer-generated work of others, without 
properly acknowledging where this is from or you do this without their 
permission. 

You can commit plagiarism in examinations, but is most likely to happen in 
coursework, assignments, portfolios, essays, dissertations and so on. 

Examples of plagiarism include: 

-	directly copying from written work, physical work, performances, recorded 
work or images, without saying where this is from; 
-	using information from the internet or electronic media (such as DVDs and 
CDs) which belongs to someone else, and presenting it as your own; 
-	rewording someone else's work, without referencing them; and
-	handing in something for assessment which has been produced by another 
student or person.

It is important that you do not plagiarise - intentionally or unintentionally - 
because the work of others and their ideas are their own. There are benefits to 
producing original ideas in terms of awards, prizes, qualifications, reputation 
and so on. To use someone else's work, words, images, ideas or discoveries is a 
form of theft.

Collusion is similar to plagiarism as it is an attempt to present another's work 
as your own. In plagiarism the original owner of the work is not aware you are 
using it, in collusion two or more people may be involved in trying to produce 
one piece of work to benefit one individual, or plagiarising another person's 
work.

Examples of collusion include:

-	agreeing with others to cheat; 
-	getting someone else to produce part or all of your work; 
-	copying the work of another person (with their permission); 
-	submitting work from essay banks; 
-	paying someone to produce work for you; and
-	allowing another student to copy your own work.

Many parts of university life need students to work together. Working as a team, 
as directed by your tutor, and producing group work is not collusion. Collusion 
only happens if you produce joint work to benefit of one or more person and try 
to deceive another (for example the assessor).

Cheating is when someone aims to get unfair advantage over others.

Examples of cheating include:

-	taking unauthorised material into the examination room; 
-	inventing results (including experiments, research, interviews and 
observations);
-	handing your own previously graded work back in; 
-	getting an examination paper before it is released;
-	behaving in a way that means other students perform poorly;
-	pretending to be another student; and
-	trying to bribe members of staff or examiners.

Help to avoid assessment offences
Most of our students are honest and want to avoid making assessment offences. We 
have a variety of resources, advice and guidance available to help make sure you 
can develop good academic skills. We will make sure that we make available 
consistent statements about what we expect in this document, and in student 
handbooks and module guides. You will be able to do tutorials on being honest in 
your work from the library and other central support services and faculties, and 
you will be able to test your written work for plagiarism using 'Turnitin¨UK' (a 
software package that detects plagiarism).

You can get advice on how to honestly use the work of others in your own work 
from the library website (www.libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/referencing.htm) 
and your lecturer and personal tutor.

You will have an opportunity to do a 'formative' assignment before you finish 
and hand in your first 'summative' assignment. A 'formative' assignment is one 
in which you can talk about your work thoroughly with your tutor to make sure 
that you are working at the correct level for your award, and that you 
understand what is meant by good practice (a 'summative' assignment counts 
towards the assessment for your course).

You will be able to use 'Turnitin¨UK', a special software package which is used 
to detect plagiarism. Turnitin¨UK will produce a report which clearly shows if 
passages in your work have been taken from somewhere else. You may talk about 
this with your personal tutor to see where you may need to improve your academic 
practice. We will not see these formative Turnitin¨UK reports as assessment 
offences.

If you are not sure whether the way you are working meets our requirements, you 
should talk to your personal tutor. They will be able to help you and tell you 
about other resources that will help you develop your academic skills.

What we expect from you
We will make sure you have the chance to practice your academic skills and avoid 
accidentally breaking our Academic Regulations. On page nine of the Student 
Charter (see http://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/students/pdfs/09_student_charter.pdf), 
it says you have to 'be aware of the academic rules relating to your studies'.

To make sure that you are aware of the rules, we expect you to agree to:

-	read this guidance and make sure you thoroughly understand it;
-	work through 'PILOT', the online tutorial available on our library website 
(http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/pilot/), which aims to help you learn good practice 
and has a useful section on plagiarism;
-	make sure that you are familiar with how to reference (acknowledge other 
people's work); 
-	correctly reference all the sources for the information you have included in 
your work; 
-	identify information you have downloaded from the internet; 
-	never use someone else's ideas for a performance, film or TV programme, 
their artwork, graphics (including graphs, spreadsheets and so on and 
information from the internet) as if they are yours; 
-	only hand in your own original work; 
-	never use another person's work as if it were your own; and 
-	never let other students use or copy your work.

What we will do for you
To help you avoid making assessment offences, our staff will:

-	make sure they are familiar with the guidance on being honest in your work 
and the Academic Regulations;
-	tell you clearly about the guidance on being honest in your work and any 
guidelines on misconduct, and record the dates for future reference; 
-	arrange library information sessions for you; 
-	promote the resources on the library website and put links to them in module 
guides and student handbooks;
-	include statements on academic honesty in each module guide, making sure 
they are consistent throughout our university;
-	make you aware of the punishments for misconduct early in the course; 
-	give you effective guidance on how you should acknowledge the information 
you have used; 
-	tell you, in writing if possible, how far you may work with other students 
in your coursework; 
-	plan procedures for assessing work in a way that reduces plagiarism, 
cheating and collusion; 
-	be aware that you may have worked differently in the past and make sure that 
you are aware of good practice in the UK;
-	familiarise themselves with 'Turnitin¨UK' and its reports; and
-	report all suspected misconduct using the proper disciplinary procedures.

Procedures for assessment offences
An assessment offence is the general term used to define cases where a student 
has tried to get unfair academic advantage in an assessment for themselves or 
another student.

We will aim to give you as much help as possible to avoid an assessment offence. 
We listed a number of possible assessment offences earlier in the document. 
These, and any relevant breaks of the Academic Regulations are dishonest, 
unacceptable and not allowed. We will fully investigate all cases of suspected 
assessment offences. If we prove that you have committed an assessment offence, 
we will take action against you using our disciplinary procedures.

For full details of what punishments you may receive for assessment offences, 
see the Academic Regulations, section 10 at: www.anglia.ac.uk/academicregs

And finally
One of the main aims of university is to give you the ability to learn, have 
independent judgment, academic rigour and intellectual honesty.

You should encourage people to ask questions, to show personal and professional 
honesty, and have mutual respect.

You, university teachers and support staff are responsible for working together 
to achieve this aim.

References
Adapted from Scott, M, (2000), Academic Misconduct Policy. A model for the FE 
Sector. (© Association of Colleges, 2000)

More information
-	Academic Regulations, section 10 (www.anglia.ac.uk/academicregs)
-	PILOT, the online tutorial in academic practice 
(www.libweb.anglia.ac.uk/pilot/)
-	Referencing procedures 
(http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/referencing.htm)
-	RefWorks, a bibliographic management service that allows you to create a 
personal database and collect bibliographies in a variety of styles
(www.libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/refworks.htm)
-	The Student Charter
(http://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/students/pdfs/09_student_charter.pdf)

Attending all your classes is very important and one of the best ways to help 
you succeed in this module. In accordance with the Student Charter, you are 
expected to arrive on time and take an active part in all your timetabled 
classes. If you are unable to attend a class for a valid reason (e.g.: illness), 
please contact your Module Tutor.

Anglia Ruskin will closely monitor the attendance of all students and will 
contact you by e-mail if you have been absent without notice for two weeks. 
Continued absence can result in the termination of your registration as you will 
be considered to have withdrawn from your studies.

Practical projects, rehearsals and ensemble performances are collaborative in 
their nature and require full attendance. Students taking practical and 
performance modules should be aware that at certain times a more intensive 
commitment is required which must be balanced against other life and work 
commitments. You will be notified of these extra rehearsals as far in advance as 
possible.

Please see the notes on 'Attendance' in the Anglia Ruskin Undergraduate Student 
Handbook for full University regulations.

To be effectively prepared for a teaching session, you should:

-	have completed all the set reading or other prescribed work as described in 
the course handbook or as set by your lecturer
-	have your own copy of the required text or other material
-	bring adequate writing materials for taking notes
-	be wearing appropriate clothing, especially for rehearsals and performance 
workshops
-	arrive mentally and physically prepared for the session

International students who are non-EEA nationals and in possession of entry
clearance/leave to remain as a student (student visa) are required to be
in regular attendance at Anglia Ruskin. Failure to do so is considered to
be a breach of national immigration regulations. Anglia Ruskin, like all British 
Universities, is statutorily obliged to inform the Border and Immigration Agency 
of the Home Office of significant unauthorised absences by any student visa 
holders.

For modules that include collaborative practical work, especially those leading 
to live performance events, there is an especial necessity for full and punctual 
attendance. Poor attendance and/or engagement inevitably has a detrimental 
affect on the work of your fellow students and will hinder their achievement, as 
well as your own.

If you are unable to attend a particular rehearsal, class or workshop you should 
inform your Module Leader or the Department Administrator immediately, and in 
advance of the class wherever possible. All members of staff have voicemail and 
email. You will then be entered on the register as an 'explained absence'. 
Failure to do this will mean that you will be marked 'unexplained absent'.
 
Absence for reasons of external work commitments, timetable clashes or time 
mismanagement will not be accepted. 

You should be aware that poor attendance and/or lack of commitment will 
inevitably affect your ability to meet the module learning outcomes to a 
satisfactory standard, and consequently your mark may be affected.

Username - SID - Name

Preparation
- Revise previous work with Max/MSP
- Look through the Max/MSP documentation
- Search for 'Max/MSP ' in:
Google, Scholar, Books, Image, Video,
University Library

Aims and Outcomes
- feel clear about course structure
- feel confident about using WebCT
- Contributes to outcomes 1,3,4,5

Focus
- Things to do first
- collect email
- Assessments
- Max/MSP 1
- Revision of material
- Getting Help
- Dealing with External Objects
- Max Object Database
WebCT submission

Follow-up
- tasks 1-3 (Max/MSP)

Task 1
 - Getting Help in Max/MSP
Learn about what helps you by helping others!

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Preparation
- See Reading/Listening list
- Check that you are clear about 
Max/MSP external objects

Aims and Outcomes
- understand the idea of external objects
- use certain common methods in Max/MSP

- Contributes to outcome 1

Focus
- Check all emails are in
- Projects
- some ideas and previous 
cohorts' examples
- reverse engineering, degrade~, etc.
- Choose a name for the concert
- Design a poster for the concert
- Breakbeat Cutting

Follow-up
- Tasks (Max/MSP)
- look through the course materials and begin
to consider what you might want to undertake
for the Max/MSP Project

Task 2
 - Breakbeat-Cutting in MaxMSP
Manipulating sample lengths mathematically.

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3: 4%

Preparation
- Research the use of voice synthesisers and
speech synthesis

Aims and Outcomes
- understand some of the work and ideas behind
speech and voice synthesis

- Contributes to outcomes 2, 4

Outline
- Fiddle~ Bonk~ and Gate...

Follow-up
- Tasks (Max/MSP)

Task 3
 - Fiddle Bonk Gate Task
Using Fiddle~, Bonk~ and Gate~ in MaxMSP.

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Preparation
- Prepare some sort of proposal concerning
what you might attempt for the 
The Max/MSP Project

Aims and Outcomes
- understand the methods used to install
and operate external objects in Max/MSP
- use an example of an 
external object in Max/MSP

- Contributes to outcome 1

Focus
Using the speech manager in MaxMSP.
- IDM examples
- 
- http://www.planet-mu.com/
- Voice projects: fofb~, fog~, etc.
- Sybil (including fof tutorial)
- The MBrola project
- MaxMBrola
The Max/MSP Project

Follow-up
- MaxMSP Project

Task 4
 - The Voice Task
Using the speech manager in MaxMSP.

- Synthesis Task

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Preparation
- Tutorials

Aims and Outcomes
Contributes to outcomes 1-6

Focus
- Tutorials (Max/MSP Project)

Follow-up Work
- Project/portfolio work

Preparation
- Look over the RH Examples

Aims and Outcomes
- Manipulate External Objects
- Use BBCut

- Contributes to outcome 1

Focus
Generative Music/Algorithms.
- Your own version of SC
- External Objects
- BBCut
- Toplap

Follow-up Work
- Next Task (Supercollider)

Task 5
 - Generative Composition Using SC 1 - GUI
Generative Music/Algorithms.

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Preparation
- Tutorials

Aims and Outcomes
Contributes to outcomes 1-6

Focus
- Tutorials (Max/MSP Project): 
if you are not able to attend 
during class time please make 
an appointment with RH during 
his office hours.

Follow-up Work
- Project/portfolio work

Preparation
- Ensure that you understand 
the basics of SC use.
- Revise material used in 
previous courses.

Aims and Outcomes
- Code live using SC
- To appreciate the role of 
external classes in SC.
- To appreciate the similarity of 
structures betweenSC and Max/MSP.
- To learn to use an example 
of this.

- Contributes to outcome 1

Focus
Using controllers (game controllers, Wii...)
and external classes in SuperCollider.
- Live Coding
- Hunting Wild Mushrooms

Follow-up Work
- Next Task (Supercollider)

Task 6
 - Controllers and External Classes in SuperCollider
Using controllers (game controllers, Wii...)
and external classes in SuperCollider.

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Preparation
- Re-aquaint yourself with 
David Cottle's SC manual

Aims and Outcomes
- Design
- SuperCollider 1

- Contributes to outcomes 1, 2

Focus
Generative Music/Algorithms.
- SuperCollider 1
- Revision of material
- Similarities to Max/MSP
- Projects
- Some ideas and previous 
cohorts' examples

Follow-up Work
- Next Task (Supercollider)
- Revise Cottle...

Task 7
 - Generative Composition Using SC 2
Generative Music/Algorithms.

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Preparation
- Investigate the phenomenon of 
laptop performance, see especially
Toplap

Aims and Outcomes
- Understand the principals and aesthetic 
behind laptop performance
- Manipulate SC using controllers

- Contributes to outcome 1

Focus
Generative Music/Algorithms.
- Toplap
- Controllers
- Semester 1 submission details

Follow-up Work
- Next Task (Supercollider)
- work on portfolio

Task 8
 - Generative Composition Using SC 3 - No GUI
Generative Music/Algorithms.

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Preparation
- Tutorials

Aims and Outcomes
- Contributes to outcomes 1-6

Focus
- Small Group/Individual Tutorials

Follow-up Work
- Project/portfolio work

Preparation
- Tutorials

Aims and Outcomes
- Contributes to outcomes 1-6

Focus
- Small Group/Individual Tutorials

Follow-up Work
- Project/portfolio work

Getting Started with
Image to Sound in Jitter
- Introduction to Jitter
- Image/Audio conversion
- Sonification
- Synaesthesia

- Task Nine (Jitter)
- Cycling '74 Jitter Tutorials 1-12

Task 9
 - Image to Sound 1; Image to Sound 2
Getting Started with
Image to Sound in Jitter

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Video Decomposition and
Analysis in Jitter

- Task Ten (Jitter)
- Cycling '74 Jitter Tutorials 13-24

Task 10
 - Image to Sound 3 (Jitter)
Video Decomposition and
Analysis in Jitter

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- Revise Jitter Tutorials 13-24
- Sound Synthesis and Integration in Jitter
- Cycling '74 Jitter Tutorials 25-37

- Next Task (Jitter)

Task 11
 - Image to Sound 4 (Jitter)
Sound Synthesis and Integration in Jitter

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- Revise Jitter Tutorials 25-37
- Jitter Project Tutorials

Jitter Project

Focus
- OSC (OpenSoundControl): 
Bringing it All Together...

Task 12
 - OSC: Max to SC; OSC: Multiple Machines
Open Sound Control

task summary | WebCT

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- Introduction to Pure Data
- Introduction to Chuck
- Final/Individual Project Discussion

- Introduction to Processing

Focus
- Xcode: 
- MaxMSP externals
- Compiling SuperCollider
- Information

Preparation
- Tutorials

Aims and Outcomes
Contributes to outcomes 1-6

Focus
- Beta Testing:
Bring in a draft version of a prepared 
patch.  On the day these will be transferred
to another student, who will spend twenty 
minutes trying/testing it.  After that 
time, a selection of items chosen at random
will be presented and critically commented
on.  These tests will be marked negatively.

Follow-up Work
- Project/portfolio work

Holiday

Preparation
- Tutorials

Aims and Outcomes
Contributes to outcomes 1-6

Focus
- Small Group/Individual Tutorials

Follow-up Work
- Project/portfolio work

Preparation
- Tutorials

Aims and Outcomes
Contributes to outcomes 1-6

Focus
- Small Group/Individual Tutorials

Follow-up Work
- Project/portfolio work

Max/MSP and Supercollider are our basic platforms. Max/MSP is available from Cycling74.

Included on MDF:

Roads, C., (1996) The Computer Music Tutorial, MIT Press
Rowe, R., (2001),Machine Musicianship MIT Press
Winkler, T., (2001) Composing Interactive Music, MIT Press
Manning, P., (2004),Electronic and Computer Music, New York: OUP
Emmerson, S., (2000), Music, Electronic Media and Culture London: Ashgate
Lawrence Lessig, (2000), Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, New York: Basic Books
Xenakis, I., (1990), Formalized music: thought and mathematics in composition, New York: Pendragon Press
Norman, D., (1998), The Psychology of Everyday Things, New York: Basic Books

You are entitled to written feedback on your performance for all your assessed 
work. For all assessment tasks which are not examinations, this is provided by a 
member of academic staff completing the assignment coversheet on which your mark 
and feedback will relate to the achievement of the module's intended learning 
outcomes and the assessment criteria you were given for the task when it was 
first issued.

Examination scripts are retained by Anglia Ruskin and are not returned to 
students. However, you are entitled to feedback on your performance in an 
examination and may request a meeting with the Module Leader or Tutor to see 
your examination script and to discuss your performance.

Anglia Ruskin is committed to providing you with feedback on all assessed work 
within 20 working days of the submission deadline or the date of an examination. 
This is extended to 30 days for feedback for a Major Project module (please note 
that working days excludes those days when Anglia Ruskin University is 
officially closed; e.g.: between Christmas and New Year). Personal tutors will 
offer to read feedback from several modules and help you to address any common 
themes that may be emerging.

At the main Anglia Ruskin University campuses, each Faculty will publish details 
of the arrangement for the return of your assessed work (e.g.: a marked essay or 
case study etc.). Any work that is not collected by you from the Faculty within 
this timeframe is returned to the iCentres from where you can subsequently 
collect it. The iCentres retain student work for a specified period prior to its 
disposal. 

To assure ourselves that our marking processes are comparable with other 
universities in the UK, Anglia Ruskin provides samples of student assessed work 
to external examiners as a routine part of our marking processes. External 
examiners are experienced academic staff from other universities who scrutinise 
your work and provide Anglia Ruskin academic staff with feedback and advice. 
Many of Anglia Ruskin's staff act as external examiners at other universities.

On occasion, you will receive feedback and marks for pieces of work that you 
completed in the earlier stages of the module. We provide you with this feedback 
as part of the learning experience and to help you prepare for other assessment 
tasks that you have still to complete. It is important to note that, in these 
cases, the marks for these pieces of work are unconfirmed as the processes 
described above for the use of external examiners will not have been completed. 
This means that, potentially, marks can change, in either direction!

Marks for modules and individual pieces of work become confirmed on the Dates 
for the Official Publication of Results, which can be checked at http://www.anglia.ac.uk/results.

You are reminded that any work that you submit must be your own. All suspected 
assessment offences will be investigated and can result in severe penalties.  
Please note that it is your responsibility to consult the relevant sections of 
the Academic Regulations (section 10 - see www.anglia.ac.uk/academicregs) and 
the Student Handbook.

When you are preparing your work for submission, it is important that you 
understand the various academic conventions that you are expected to follow in 
order to make sure that you do not leave yourself open to accusations of 
plagiarism (e.g.: the correct use of referencing, citations, footnotes etc.) and 
that your work maintains its academic integrity.

Plagiarism is theft and constitutes the presentation of another's work as your 
own in order to gain an unfair advantage. You will receive advice and guidance 
on how to avoid plagiarism and other elements of poor academic practice during 
the early stages of your studies at Anglia Ruskin.

Guidance on being honest in your work
Introduction
Being honest in your work is at the heart of studying and working at university. 
To be honest in your work you must acknowledge the ideas and work of others you 
use, and you must not try to get an advantage over others by being dishonest. It 
is important that you understand what it means to be honest in your work. 
Although there is general agreement within the UK academic community about the 
types of activity that are unacceptable, this does vary slightly between 
institutions, and may be different from where you studied before.

We have developed this guidance to help you understand what it means to be 
honest in your work, and what you should do to make sure that you are handing in 
work that meets our expectations. This means we can make sure that we can 
maintain reliable standards for our academic awards, and students continue to 
enjoy studying for academic qualifications that have a good reputation. In this 
guidance we will:

-	clearly define what being honest in your work and good practice mean, and 
how you can achieve this; 
-	define 'assessment offences', including plagiarism, cheating and collusion; 
-	identify the resources, help and advice available to help you learn the 
academic skills you need to avoid committing assessment offences; 
-	explain how we expect you to behave; and 
-	describe what happens if we think you have committed an assessment offence. 

Being honest in your work and good practice
You can show good practice when you do your work independently, honestly and in 
a proper academic style, using good referencing and acknowledging all of your 
sources.  

To show good academic practice you must: 

-	show you understand the literature; 
-	use research from academics and others in your area of study; 
-	discuss and evaluate ideas and theories; 
-	develop your own independent evaluation of academic issues; and
-	develop your own arguments. 

To support your own good practice you will need to develop your:
 
-	skills at studying and getting information (for example, reading, taking 
notes, research and so on); 
-	skills in looking at an argument and making your own evaluation (for 
example, having a balanced opinion, using reasoning and argument); 
-	writing skills for essays, reports, dissertations and so on; 
-	referencing skills (how you include your sources of information in your 
work); and
-	exam techniques (for example, revising and timing).

Achieving good practice is not as complicated as it may appear. You need to do 
the following.

-	Know the rules. 
-	Make sure you reference all of your information sources. Poor practice or 
dishonesty in your work (such as plagiarism, cheating, fraud and so on) can be a 
result of you not knowing what you are allowed to do. 
-	Develop your own style. Sometimes students include too much original text 
from the work of others, as they believe that they cannot 'put it any better'. 
Although you should try to express ideas in your own words, quoting or summing 
up ideas from academic sources is fine, as long as you say where you have taken 
this from. You must also reference other people's performances or art in your 
own work. It fine to use other people's performances and art, but you must be 
completely clear about why you are using that work, and make sure it is obvious 
that it isn't your own.

Definitions of assessment offences
Plagiarism is when you present someone else's work, words, images, ideas, 
opinions or discoveries, whether published or not, as your own. It is also when 
you take the artwork, images or computer-generated work of others, without 
properly acknowledging where this is from or you do this without their 
permission. 

You can commit plagiarism in examinations, but is most likely to happen in 
coursework, assignments, portfolios, essays, dissertations and so on. 

Examples of plagiarism include: 

-	directly copying from written work, physical work, performances, recorded 
work or images, without saying where this is from; 
-	using information from the internet or electronic media (such as DVDs and 
CDs) which belongs to someone else, and presenting it as your own; 
-	rewording someone else's work, without referencing them; and
-	handing in something for assessment which has been produced by another 
student or person.

It is important that you do not plagiarise - intentionally or unintentionally - 
because the work of others and their ideas are their own. There are benefits to 
producing original ideas in terms of awards, prizes, qualifications, reputation 
and so on. To use someone else's work, words, images, ideas or discoveries is a 
form of theft.

Collusion is similar to plagiarism as it is an attempt to present another's work 
as your own. In plagiarism the original owner of the work is not aware you are 
using it, in collusion two or more people may be involved in trying to produce 
one piece of work to benefit one individual, or plagiarising another person's 
work.

Examples of collusion include:

-	agreeing with others to cheat; 
-	getting someone else to produce part or all of your work; 
-	copying the work of another person (with their permission); 
-	submitting work from essay banks; 
-	paying someone to produce work for you; and
-	allowing another student to copy your own work.

Many parts of university life need students to work together. Working as a team, 
as directed by your tutor, and producing group work is not collusion. Collusion 
only happens if you produce joint work to benefit of one or more person and try 
to deceive another (for example the assessor).

Cheating is when someone aims to get unfair advantage over others.

Examples of cheating include:

-	taking unauthorised material into the examination room; 
-	inventing results (including experiments, research, interviews and 
observations);
-	handing your own previously graded work back in; 
-	getting an examination paper before it is released;
-	behaving in a way that means other students perform poorly;
-	pretending to be another student; and
-	trying to bribe members of staff or examiners.

Help to avoid assessment offences
Most of our students are honest and want to avoid making assessment offences. We 
have a variety of resources, advice and guidance available to help make sure you 
can develop good academic skills. We will make sure that we make available 
consistent statements about what we expect in this document, and in student 
handbooks and module guides. You will be able to do tutorials on being honest in 
your work from the library and other central support services and faculties, and 
you will be able to test your written work for plagiarism using 'Turnitin¨UK' (a 
software package that detects plagiarism).

You can get advice on how to honestly use the work of others in your own work 
from the library website (www.libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/referencing.htm) 
and your lecturer and personal tutor.

You will have an opportunity to do a 'formative' assignment before you finish 
and hand in your first 'summative' assignment. A 'formative' assignment is one 
in which you can talk about your work thoroughly with your tutor to make sure 
that you are working at the correct level for your award, and that you 
understand what is meant by good practice (a 'summative' assignment counts 
towards the assessment for your course).

You will be able to use 'Turnitin¨UK', a special software package which is used 
to detect plagiarism. Turnitin¨UK will produce a report which clearly shows if 
passages in your work have been taken from somewhere else. You may talk about 
this with your personal tutor to see where you may need to improve your academic 
practice. We will not see these formative Turnitin¨UK reports as assessment 
offences.

If you are not sure whether the way you are working meets our requirements, you 
should talk to your personal tutor. They will be able to help you and tell you 
about other resources that will help you develop your academic skills.

What we expect from you
We will make sure you have the chance to practice your academic skills and avoid 
accidentally breaking our Academic Regulations. On page nine of the Student 
Charter (see http://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/students/pdfs/09_student_charter.pdf), 
it says you have to 'be aware of the academic rules relating to your studies'.

To make sure that you are aware of the rules, we expect you to agree to:

-	read this guidance and make sure you thoroughly understand it;
-	work through 'PILOT', the online tutorial available on our library website 
(http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/pilot/), which aims to help you learn good practice 
and has a useful section on plagiarism;
-	make sure that you are familiar with how to reference (acknowledge other 
people's work); 
-	correctly reference all the sources for the information you have included in 
your work; 
-	identify information you have downloaded from the internet; 
-	never use someone else's ideas for a performance, film or TV programme, 
their artwork, graphics (including graphs, spreadsheets and so on and 
information from the internet) as if they are yours; 
-	only hand in your own original work; 
-	never use another person's work as if it were your own; and 
-	never let other students use or copy your work.

What we will do for you
To help you avoid making assessment offences, our staff will:

-	make sure they are familiar with the guidance on being honest in your work 
and the Academic Regulations;
-	tell you clearly about the guidance on being honest in your work and any 
guidelines on misconduct, and record the dates for future reference; 
-	arrange library information sessions for you; 
-	promote the resources on the library website and put links to them in module 
guides and student handbooks;
-	include statements on academic honesty in each module guide, making sure 
they are consistent throughout our university;
-	make you aware of the punishments for misconduct early in the course; 
-	give you effective guidance on how you should acknowledge the information 
you have used; 
-	tell you, in writing if possible, how far you may work with other students 
in your coursework; 
-	plan procedures for assessing work in a way that reduces plagiarism, 
cheating and collusion; 
-	be aware that you may have worked differently in the past and make sure that 
you are aware of good practice in the UK;
-	familiarise themselves with 'Turnitin¨UK' and its reports; and
-	report all suspected misconduct using the proper disciplinary procedures.

Procedures for assessment offences
An assessment offence is the general term used to define cases where a student 
has tried to get unfair academic advantage in an assessment for themselves or 
another student.

We will aim to give you as much help as possible to avoid an assessment offence. 
We listed a number of possible assessment offences earlier in the document. 
These, and any relevant breaks of the Academic Regulations are dishonest, 
unacceptable and not allowed. We will fully investigate all cases of suspected 
assessment offences. If we prove that you have committed an assessment offence, 
we will take action against you using our disciplinary procedures.

For full details of what punishments you may receive for assessment offences, 
see the Academic Regulations, section 10 at: www.anglia.ac.uk/academicregs

And finally
One of the main aims of university is to give you the ability to learn, have 
independent judgment, academic rigour and intellectual honesty.

You should encourage people to ask questions, to show personal and professional 
honesty, and have mutual respect.

You, university teachers and support staff are responsible for working together 
to achieve this aim.

References
Adapted from Scott, M, (2000), Academic Misconduct Policy. A model for the FE 
Sector. (© Association of Colleges, 2000)

More information
-	Academic Regulations, section 10 (www.anglia.ac.uk/academicregs)
-	PILOT, the online tutorial in academic practice 
(www.libweb.anglia.ac.uk/pilot/)
-	Referencing procedures 
(http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/referencing.htm)
-	RefWorks, a bibliographic management service that allows you to create a 
personal database and collect bibliographies in a variety of styles
(www.libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/refworks.htm)
-	The Student Charter
(http://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/students/pdfs/09_student_charter.pdf)

Attending all your classes is very important and one of the best ways to help 
you succeed in this module. In accordance with the Student Charter, you are 
expected to arrive on time and take an active part in all your timetabled 
classes. If you are unable to attend a class for a valid reason (e.g.: illness), 
please contact your Module Tutor.

Anglia Ruskin will closely monitor the attendance of all students and will 
contact you by e-mail if you have been absent without notice for two weeks. 
Continued absence can result in the termination of your registration as you will 
be considered to have withdrawn from your studies.

Practical projects, rehearsals and ensemble performances are collaborative in 
their nature and require full attendance. Students taking practical and 
performance modules should be aware that at certain times a more intensive 
commitment is required which must be balanced against other life and work 
commitments. You will be notified of these extra rehearsals as far in advance as 
possible.

Please see the notes on 'Attendance' in the Anglia Ruskin Undergraduate Student 
Handbook for full University regulations.

To be effectively prepared for a teaching session, you should:

-	have completed all the set reading or other prescribed work as described in 
the course handbook or as set by your lecturer
-	have your own copy of the required text or other material
-	bring adequate writing materials for taking notes
-	be wearing appropriate clothing, especially for rehearsals and performance 
workshops
-	arrive mentally and physically prepared for the session

International students who are non-EEA nationals and in possession of entry
clearance/leave to remain as a student (student visa) are required to be
in regular attendance at Anglia Ruskin. Failure to do so is considered to
be a breach of national immigration regulations. Anglia Ruskin, like all British 
Universities, is statutorily obliged to inform the Border and Immigration Agency 
of the Home Office of significant unauthorised absences by any student visa 
holders.

For modules that include collaborative practical work, especially those leading 
to live performance events, there is an especial necessity for full and punctual 
attendance. Poor attendance and/or engagement inevitably has a detrimental 
affect on the work of your fellow students and will hinder their achievement, as 
well as your own.

If you are unable to attend a particular rehearsal, class or workshop you should 
inform your Module Leader or the Department Administrator immediately, and in 
advance of the class wherever possible. All members of staff have voicemail and 
email. You will then be entered on the register as an 'explained absence'. 
Failure to do this will mean that you will be marked 'unexplained absent'.
 
Absence for reasons of external work commitments, timetable clashes or time 
mismanagement will not be accepted. 

You should be aware that poor attendance and/or lack of commitment will 
inevitably affect your ability to meet the module learning outcomes to a 
satisfactory standard, and consequently your mark may be affected.