After that we reviewed a few very basic synthesis techniques, ways of constructing timbre. Wavetable, subtractive (filter), additive... but the main reason was also to show a few computer-music languages you may want to explore, notably RTcmix and SuperCollider.

Links

• three of the Six Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion -- by Paul Lansky. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, there are many excerpts of Paul's music here.
• fallpiece -- the web page with a link to the filtered-autumn sounds of mine. I played a short excerpt in class, here's the whole thing.

Class Downloads

• rtcmix-simple-additive.maxpat.zip -- simple additive-synthesis [rtcmix~] max patch, showing the basics of how the WAVETABLE instrument works.
  
• sc-filt.rtf.zip -- very basic band-pass filter instrument coded in SuperCollider.