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10 Sessions / 8 hours of work per session
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Skill Level
Intermediate
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English, Spanish; Castilian, Chinese, Portuguese
Topics
Interactive Artwork, Interactive Sound, Sound Generation, Computer Graphics, Audiovisual Interaction

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Starts Jun 1, 2016

Creative Programming with Javascript

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English, Spanish; Castilian, Chinese, Portuguese
Topics
Interactive Artwork, Interactive Sound, Sound Generation, Computer Graphics, Audiovisual Interaction

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Course Description

Creative Programming with Javascript aims to enhance student skills and experience in the development of software for the creation and manipulation of sounds and images, both in real and non-real time. The course explores the intersection and similarities between sound and image signal processing through the exploration of combined audiovisual approaches. As such it is suitable for those with a strong interest in creative technologies from either an engineering or creative arts background.

This course extends the principles of creative engineering for use in arts, games, and more general interaction scenarios so that students can develop their own projects through the use of computational approaches to audiovisual processing. The lessons will be taught using Javascript. It is recommended that students have some experience with using Processing and some background in digital audio and/or digital image manipulation before taking this course.

Materials on how to use Javascript will be made available, and we will be using bespoke tools and libraries to make this a lot easier. At first we will use ready made code to apply creative techniques. Following this, you’ll be expected to develop your own code based on what you’ve learned. Throughout this process, you should pick up some great skills.

We will spend the first few sessions exploring Digital Audio Signal Processing. This will cover synthesis, sequencing, filtering, sample loading and playback, panning and rudimentary analysis. Following this we’ll be looking at audiovisual interaction using video and 3D graphics.

schedule

This course is in adaptive mode and starts Jun 1, 2016. Learn more about adaptive courses here.

Session 1: Introduction to the course: What is Creative Programming? (December 18, 2024)
Introduction to Digital Audio in Javascript. In this session we will get started using the CodeCircle IDE, and then download the current version of Maximilian. We’ll be going through some of the examples, and building some really basic music software to get us started. Some of the most important things you will learn in this session include how simple waveforms can be used to create more complex ones, and how signals can be used to make sound, or to control sound, depending on how those signals are scaled.
7 lessons
1. Course Introduction
2. What is Creative Programming? - Part A
3. What is Creative Programming - Part B (Premium Exclusive)
4. Getting Started
5. Maximilian
6. Oscillation
7. Adding Sounds Together (Premium Exclusive)
Session 2: Sound Synthesis and Control (December 25, 2024)
Building on the previous session's introduction, we will be learning more about waveforms and their construction, and looking at additive synthesis. After this we’ll be exploring how we can use simple statements to make an efficient metronome object that can be used to make things happen. At the end of the session, you will have all built synthesizers in Javascript and made them play things that sound like music.
6 lessons
1. Generating Oscillations
2. Amplitude Modulation
3. Frequency Modulation
4. Keeping Time (Premium Exclusive)
5. Basic Sequencing
6. Assignment (Premium Exclusive)
Session 3: Real-time recursive filters, LFOs, and Sample playback (January 1, 2025)
In this session we will learn how to use Maximilian’s built-in filters to create a subtractive synthesizer and an LFO, and get some insight into how these work. We will also learn how to load in a sample and play it back.
6 lessons
1. Subtractive and Wavetable Synthesis
2. Filters in Maximilian
3. Subtractive Synthesis
4. Subtractive Synthesis II (Premium Exclusive)
5. Loading Samples (Premium Exclusive)
6. Assignments
Session 4: Building a Drum Machine/Sample Playback Device, Manipulating Samples, and Using Envelopes (January 8, 2025)
During the first half of the lesson we will be working to create a drum machine using sample players and sequencer skills from the previous session. Following this we will be looking at various ways of manipulating sample playback to create interesting effects, and learn how to use basic envelope generators to control parameters. We will also look at an advanced example demonstrating how to create a polyphonic music device.
5 lessons
1. Playing Samples
2. Manipulating Samples
3. Drum Machine
4. Envelope Generators
5. Envelope Generators II (Premium Exclusive)
Session 5: Audio Visual Composition: Contemporary Work by Audiovisual Creatives (January 15, 2025)
In this session we will look at the work of contemporary AV artists and talk about what inspires them, showing examples of their work and discussing what approaches they take to audiovisual composition. We will also begin to explore the fundamentals of algorithmic computer graphics design in Javascript.
6 lessons
1. Audiovisual Art
2. Audiovisual Art II
3. Audiovisual Art III (Premium Exclusive)
4. Audiovisual Art Criticism (Premium Exclusive)
5. Recent Examples
6. Audiovisual Artists
Session 6: Using The Javascript Canvas With Maximilian (January 22, 2025)
This session will be a basic introduction on how to use the Javascript canvas in more detail, and how to augment it with Maximilian. We will look at drawing methods, and demonstrate how to integrate your existing audio DSP code and projects with the Javascript canvas to make interactive music applications that use graphics, mouse and keyboard interaction.
7 lessons
1. Working with Graphics
2. JS
3. Drawing
4. Drawing Continued (Premium Exclusive)
5. Keyboard and Mouse Interaction
6. Keyboard and Mouse Interaction Continued (Premium Exclusive)
7. Interactive Sound Assignment
Session 7: Audiovisual Synthesis Using Javascript (January 29, 2025)
This session will look at how to get basic information from our sound algorithms and use it to map graphical parameters to make basic audiovisual synthesizers. We will explore a range of generative drawing techniques including the geometric systems, non-linear systems and noise. We will also look at controlling generative drawing through audio, and using graphics parameters to control sound.
7 lessons
1. Visual Synthesis
2. Visual Synthesis Continued (Premium Exclusive)
3. Visual Synthesis Continued
4. Visual Synthesis II
5. Using Amplitude
6. Using Amplitude Continued (Premium Exclusive)
7. Assignment
Session 8: Memo Akten Guest lecture (February 5, 2025)
Memo will take you through a bunch of simple systems for the creation of audiovisual art.
9 lessons
1. Visual Synthesis (Guest Lecture: Memo Akten)
2. Basic Sketch (Guest Lecture: Memo Akten) (Premium Exclusive)
3. Particle Class (Guest Lecture: Memo Akten)
4. Array Dynamics (Guest Lecture: Memo Akten)
5. Particle Behaviours (Guest Lecture: Memo Akten)
6. Adding Tails (Guest Lecture: Memo Akten)
7. Adding Tails Continued (Guest Lecture: Memo Akten)
8. Adding Sound (Guest Lecture: Memo Akten) (Premium Exclusive)
9. Session Summary (Guest Lecture: Memo Akten)
Session 9: Pixel Pushing – 2D and 3D systems using algorithmic and generative graphics (February 12, 2025)
In this session we will look at a range of approaches for creating images using pure pixel pushing. We’ll make classic fractals, Chladni patterns, and look at how to create our own DIY 3D environments without any openGL, including an introduction to generative 3D geometry and superformulae.
8 lessons
1. Pixel Pushing
2. The Mandelbrot Set
3. The Mandelbrot Set Continued (Premium Exclusive)
4. Generating Pixels
5. Using a Complex 3D Scene
6. Using a Complex 3D Scene Continued (Premium Exclusive)
7. Complex 3D Scene Using Geometry
8. Major Assignment
Session 10: Audio Features And Their Uses (February 19, 2025)
In this session we’ll be visualizing audio features using various forms of analysis. Here we can do great effects with not much coding, but getting started is a headache, and we can make this part easier. We will also introduce frag shaders as a mechanism for manipulating images.
5 lessons
1. Extracting Features
2. Using the FFT
3. Using the FFT Continued (Premium Exclusive)
4. Fragment Shaders
5. Goodbye
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