Final Year Project Video Demonstration

For any one who wishes to know what Music Technology at Edinburgh actually means? well this is what i created for my final year project, a literal creative fusion of music technology and technology! Enjoy!

Chaos Music - The Final Piece

Chaos music is a composition based on my research and programming of the functions documented in my previous post. The piece uses the output data from the chaotic functions to drive musical synthesis with the built in functions of CLM, more explanation about methodology can be found in the attached report.

Final Piece



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Algorithmic Comp. Piece 2 Research - Choas Functions

For my final year piece iv been researching choatic functions and non-linear maps. Below is a selection of function iv ported into Lisp. Each function outputs a text file that can be imported into most graphing software (the corresponding pictures were all produced with MATLAB). I intend to implement these functions and use there output to drive a piece of music.

The Logistic Equation

(with-open-file (*standard-output* "logistic.txt" :direction :output
                                  :if-exists :supersede)
(let*  ((x 0.5)
 (r-env '(0 1 1000 4.0))
 (r 0.0))


   (loop for i below 1000 do
  (setf r (envelope-interp i r-env)
     x (* r (* x (- 1 x))))
  (format t "~D ~D~%" r x)
  )))

The Henon Map

Film Music Post 1950 - An Analysis of Pulp Fiction

My final piece of work was an analysis of Quentin Tarrantinos Pulp Fiction. I looked at how the film uses recorded music in various ways to add extra depth to it's characters and to also provide a commentry to the film without the need to dialogue.

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Pulp Fiction

Taking Music to the Next Level

An essay on the way the video game industry has influenced, music production, promotion and consumption. It looks at three seperate areas, The music of games and video game sound tracks, Music with games - Chip tunes and 8-bit and also Music as games - focusing on the rise of guitar hero and the effects this had on popular culture.

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Taking Music to the Next Level

Film Music Post 1950 - An Analysis of John Carpenters The Thing

An analysis essary looking at John Carpenters 1982 thriller The Thing, it focus on the music and special effects on the film focusing on the delibrate uses of silence and diegetic sound. The Timing table is a breakdown of the film by sound, it looks at the different tracks, when they come in and how they interact with the image.

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Essay || Timing Table

Fourier Analysis and MATLAB - Phase Vocoder

My first go at using MATLAB as a language was to build a phase vocoder with variable Q (below 1.5 works best) and create a GUI for easier use. It contains two methods of stretching Both versions of the source code are attached (GUI and non-GUI). Isnt the fastest implementation so I would advise against trying to stretch large files. There are two algorithums included for stretching, the first use Overlap add of windows to create the strech where as the other takes into account phase modifications

Non-GUI implementation

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GUI Implementation

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Computer Programming for Music Technology - Quadraphonic Delay In C and Max/Msp

The final piece of a course in C and its uses in building Max/Msp objects was to design and code a quadraphonic (four tap) delay in C for use as a Max/Msp object. The delay takes an incoming mono signal and allows the user to set four delay times which correspond to the the four outputs.

Source code and Object

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Built using Max/Msp SDK 5.1.6, tested on Windows 7 with Max/Msp 5.0.7

Real Time Systems Piece 1 - Hercules DJ Steel in Max/Msp

A real time performance piece built using Max/Msp. It is designed to be controlled by the Hercules DJ Steel Controller and was my first look at making real time compositions with different controllers

The final performance:



The raw Max files and report

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Real Time Systems Piece 2 - PS3 Dualshock 3 as a Performance Controller

Building on Submission 1 this performance piece use the PS3 Dualshock 3 controller as its interface. It takes full advantage of the built in tilt sensors as well as pressure triggers, analogue sticks D-pad and buttons. Functionality is best achieved through the Motion In Joy driver and getting the data through Max's hi object



The Final Performance



Raw Max Files and Report

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Built using Max 5.0.7 and MotioninJoy 6