Practice Exercises

Following Czerny, Hanon and Kreutzer, practice exercises are provided for live coding of various kinds:

These are work in progress, and are just meant as jumping off points for now, more detail later? Perhaps this will lead to some etudes...

authors- NickCollins

Algorithmic Engagement

3x+1 problem Babylonian Square Root

more number theory (sieves, Goldbach summans, prime number algorithms, finding primitive generators modulo a prime)

algorithmic composition (Markov transitions, generate and test, rule sets, grammars, corpus statistics, Bayes)

computer science (sorting algorithms, parsing , recursion, trees)

Sonification

Audio Synthesis

modulation

subtractive (source/filter)

additive

effects processing

granulation

Musical

Nonstandard tunings (non-octave, JI to x-limit)

Define envelopes for a piece for large-scale form

Psychological

Shepard tones, Risset glissandi or accelerandi, auditory streaming illusions

Multi-player Collaborative/Competitive

Against a timer

Root war

Shared code

Tag team

low vs high spectral occupation (like two hands piano)

maximal contrast

copy and better

constant remix