Five Things to Do

Here are the very basics of what we NEED to get done:

remix is due when you return

vst plugins – installing the vst’s (mdsp site has some awesome plugins, one is called fire, one called greed, etc… they have instruments, a scan synth, a bunch of cool, different things)

check out supercollider

read and comment (futurism thing)

listen to king crimson, genesis or moody blues and comment

 Here is the stuff in more detail:

2 questions pertaining to ableton

Do the remix from Bush of Ghosts… Use elements from it as your source material, and make it your own.  Add to it.  Put in your own guitar or something

Reconstitute a midi sequence

Find and post VST plugins.  Find them, and link them up on the blog

Download noatikl and read the demonstration.  Check it out, figure out how to route the output of noatikl into ableton (extra points).  This introduces you to the concept of generative music

Figure out how to use your IAC bus for mac.  Input, IAC driver, IAC bus, track, sinc and remote on ableton… all of these should be checked on

Start recording some generative sequences

Listen to in the court of the crimson king (king crimson), foxtrot (genesis), days of future past (moody blues, knights in white satin) and comment on each

Find .AU or .VST plugins, and figure out how to get them to show up inside of Ableton.  Go to preferences on Ableton, go to file folder (live preferences for mac users, then file folder), and uncheck analysis file (unless you’re doing a live performance).  Sample editor (browse) and pick something like audacity.  Go down to plugin sources and check “Use VST Plug-in Custom Folder” on, and put the folder on your desktop, and browse for it

Mac users go live cut… mdsp.smartelectronix.com

Get and try supercollider

Extra credit if you do a wounded CD project… write on a CD with a felt tip pen or sharpie, scratch it intentionally, wash it, use a chemical on it, and see what happens to it.  What does it sound like?  Does it play?  Have something happen to it.  Maybe record some of your music with Ableton, put it on a cd, wound your cd, and put it back onto Ableton:  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval_(musical_project))

Read luigi resolo’s manifesto of futurist musicians and comment on it on the blog (http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/musicians.html)