• Module Guide
• Outline
• Summary
• Outcomes

• Assessments
• Assessment Criteria
• Reading/Listening List
• WebCT
• Project/Task Summary
• Workshop and Tutorial Times
• Performance Programme

• Sensor Technology Materials List
• Arduino Codebase
• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
• Arduino Getting Started Booklet 02 [pdf] - Massimo Banzi
• Arduino Notebook v6 08-09 [pdf] - Brian Evans
• Projects
• Arduino Links

Just come along...

Concentrating on aspects of technology that enable live performance and audio manipulation, this module is designed to provide the knowledge and opportunity for students to create their own performances and sonic installations. Students will be expected to actively pursue their own opportunities for performance/exhibition. Module materials will be based around the type of electronic components used for a variety of methods of controlling hardware and software: sensors (for example, those used in game controllers); and, chips and boards for the creation, manipulation and storage of sound. Of equal importance will be the implementation of the crucial and complex links between technology, performers, electronic sound and the audience. Students will gain experience through a series of tasks and projects culminating in a final performance or exhibition. Students will submit their collected exercises in a portfolio, accompanied by audio-visual documentation as necessary and a brief critical evaluation, which should reference the current literature on sensor technology. This critical evaluation should place the student's work in the context of current trends in sensor technology as well as providing a basis for the student's own criteria and judgement. A materials charge may apply for this module.

1. Investigate the effect of the user interface (software and hardware, including acoustic instruments) on musical performance.
2. Review, test and use a variety of hardware/software resources.
3. Design, implement and perform using custom hardware and software.

1. 1. Analyse particular technical requirements (for instance, choose a particular sensor or configuration of sensors to achieve a musical goal); design and implement solutions for those requirements;
2. 2. Transform abstract data and concepts towards a given purpose and design novel solutions Ð for instance capturing the data in particular movements and translating this into musical gestures;
3. 3. Be confident and flexible in identifying and defining complex problems and the application of appropriate knowledge, tools/methods to their solution;
4. 4. Operate in complex and unpredictable contexts, such as a musical performance, requiring selection and application from a wide range of innovative or standard techniques.

• Banzi, M., (2009), Getting Started with Arduino, North Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media Inc.
• Bishop, C. (2005) Installation Art, London: Tate Publishing
• Dale D., ed. (2005-present) Make volumes 10-present: Technology on your time, North Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media Inc.
• Emmerson, S. (2000) Music, Electronic Media and Culture, Kent : Ashgate
• Igoe, T., (2007), Making Things Talk, North Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media Inc.
• Miranda, E. R. (2006) New digital musical instruments: control and interaction beyond the keyboard, Middleton: A-R Editions
• O'Sullivan, D. & T. Igoe, eds. (2004) Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers, London: Premier Press
• Rosenthal, M. (2003) Understanding Installation Art, London: Prestel

• Heinrich K. Taube, 2004, Notes from the Metalevel: Introduction to Algorithmic Music Composition, (Swets & Zeitlinger)
• Cook, Perry R, 1999, Music, cognition, and computerized sound: an introduction to psychoacoustics, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press)
• Eduardo Miranda, 2001, Composing Music with Computers
• Curtis Roads, 1996, Computer Music Tutorial, Part 5

• 10% for non-performance without good reason;
• 10% for non-submission of a recording of you performing live;
• Failure to submit either of the above will result in failure of the module.

Focus
- include 'stech' in subject area of any email sent
- Assessments
- Introduction to Sensor Technology

Different Boards:
Arduino - http://www.arduino.cc/
Wiring - http://www.wiring.org.co/
USB Create - http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~dano/CUI/
Gainer - http://gainer.cc/

Sensor Technology Materials List
- YOU'LL ALSO NEED A 
MONO 1/4 inch JACK PLUG!!!!

If you haven't taken Performance Technology
You might want to go through a few things...
- Getting Started
- The Seven Basic Rules of Hacking
- How to Solder

- List of sensors (Wikipedia)

WebCT submission

Follow-up
- review, or view Performance Technology

Task 1
 - Hello World
task 1 due: Wednesday 15th December 2010
task 1 weighting: 0%

task summary | WebCT

Sensor walk: walk around your neighborhood, or a different one. 
Take a count of every interaction with a sensor you see. 
These might include:
- Pushbuttons on an ATM
- motion sensors on doors, taps, etc.
- Floor mats
- Cameras
Take pictures or video as appropriate, of the most interesting ones.

Preparation

- Search for 'Circuit Bending' in:
Google, Scholar, Books, Image, Video,
University Library
- Ghazala, Reed, (2005) 
Circuit-bending:
build your own alien instruments, 
Indianapoli: Wiley Publishing) 
- Chapters 1 and 2

- Collins, Nicolas, (2006) 
Handmade electronic music:
the art of hardware hacking 
New York: Routledge 
- Chapters 1 and 2

Aims and Outcomes
- Arduino 'Hello World'

- Contributes to outcomes 1,3,4

Focus
- The Arduino and other interfaces
- What's going on
- Getting something going

notes

Task 1
 - Hello World
task 1 due: Wednesday 15th December 2010
task 1 weighting: 0%

task summary | WebCT

Focus
- Breadboarding:
-- Intro on Sparkfun
-- Tom Igoe
-- Intro to Breadboarding [1MB pdf]
-- Intro to Breadboarding [505 KB pdf]
-- Intro to the Arduino [254KB pdf]

- Using a Piezo disc to make sounds
- Give the sounds a duration
- Generate and Modulate Pulses
- Notes Over the Serial Port with Duration Controlled by a Potentiometer
- Use the Arduino Board with Max (preview)

notes

Task 2
 - Basic Sound with the Arduino
task 2 due: Wednesday 15th December 2010
task 2 weighting: 0%

task summary | WebCT

Focus
- Sensor Presentations 1
- Connecting Arduino to Breadboard
- Ladyada Arduino Tutorials

notes

Task 3
 - Arduino, MaxMSP, SuperCollider and Breadboards
task 3 due: Wednesday 15th December 2010
task 3 weighting: 10%

task summary | WebCT

- Sensor Presentations 2
- Presentation Chooser v001
- Ladyada Arduino Tutorials
- Arduino Audio 1
- Contribute to outcomes 1-4

Task 4
 - Arduino, Sensors and Music
task 4 due: Wednesday 15th December 2010
task 4 weighting: 10%

task summary | WebCT

Auduino

notes

Task 5
 - Auduino
task 5 due: Wednesday 15th December 2010
task 5 weighting: 10%

task summary | WebCT

- Arduinos, Motors and Servos
Make video connecting Arduino to a servo
[
- MIDI via Arduino
- Teabox
]

notes

Task 6
 - Arduino and Servos
task 6 due: Wednesday 15th December 2010
task 6 weighting: 10%

task summary | WebCT

- Multiplexing
- WritingToArduino

Task 7
 - Communicate via the Internet
task 7 due: Wednesday 15th December 2010
task 7 weighting: 0%

task summary | WebCT

- No lecture slot
- Tutorial times:
- Wednesday 24th 1300-1400 Hel244
- Thursday Mel022 slot moved to 1630-1730
- Friday 26th 1300-1400 Hel040
plus office hours:
- Wednesday 24th 1030-1200 Hel244
- Thursday 1100-1230 Hel244

Task 8
 - Arduino and Multiplexing
task 8 due: Wednesday 15th December 2010
task 8 weighting: 0%

task summary

Focus
- Project Presentations

Individual Project Discussions

Individual Project

• Heinrich K. Taube, 2004, Notes from the Metalevel: Introduction to Algorithmic Music Composition, (Swets & Zeitlinger)
• Cook, Perry R, 1999, Music, cognition, and computerized sound: an introduction to psychoacoustics, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press)
• Eduardo Miranda, 2001, Composing Music with Computers
• Curtis Roads, 1996, Computer Music Tutorial, Part 5