Links

• older class
• another older class
• yet another older class
  -- these are links to previous models and discussions of the "Burundi Drummers" exercise
  
  
• yes, another older class
• continution of the class above
  -- these two classes develop a simple model of a blues-guitar player
  
  
• still another older class
  -- one year we tried making a FUNKY bass player. Like, dig it, man!

I played excerpts from a few of my own pieces (massive ego brad!) in class that used performance models extensively...


• Rough Raga Riffs -- the 'heavy metal/raga' piece
• Almost Real -- the fake Irish piece
• guns -- just for fun; the guitar and bass are totally virtual (played by performance model code)

For the music above (and in most of the non-Burundi class examples linked above), the Karplus-Strong or "plucked string" algorithm is used a lot. If you google "Karplus Strong" you'll get many links, and -- of course -- the


• wikipedia page on the Karplus-Strong algorithm
  is a good place to start. I think I'll talk a bit more about this algorithm in the next class.

Applications and Examples

• week3-classpatches.zip

Sounds:

• drummers_of_burundi.mp3 -- the "Warrior Drums" we attempted to emulate
  
• thadrums.mp3 -- the 'drum' sample we created. Amazing what you can do by tapping on a laptop microphone [NOTE: the aiff version of this file is included in the week3-classpatches.zip archive]