MYL 5037E - Interactive Music Composition

Course Objectives

1. To acquaint students with the necessary programming skills to create bespoke
interactive music software.
2. To introduce students efficient mapping strategies between hardware to software
optimised for physical interaction with computer based musical environments.
3. To raise students’ awareness in improvisation techniques using live coding techniques
and web based networked music systems.
4. To introduce students the aesthetics and improvisation paradigms within the range of
electroacoustic music composition aided by computer based musical environments.

Course Description

Advanced tools and techniques for electroacoustic music composition, real time improvisation
techniques with interactive systems using diverse performance paradigms, digital interfaces and
mapping strategies, sound synthesis techniques, sonification of non-musical raw data.