Music Technology Fundamentals

A lecture on the fundamentals of Music Technology, given in Lagos Nigeria, at the one year anniversary of Strictly Music Group.

Transcript

1. Music Technology Fundamentals Jehoshaphat I. Abu
2. Outline Music Technology Fundamentals 01 | About Me 02 | About Music Technology 03 | Music Technology Sub Fields 04 | Demo 05 | What Next?
3. http://jehoshaphatia.com About Me I’m Jehoshaphat I. Abu a polymath and an advocate of STEAM education. I'm studying Computer Science (also Music) with Specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. I'm also a multi-disciplinary artist, designing sounds and composing music for Film, Games & TV, interactive installation and performances. @jehoshaphatia
4. About Music Technology Jehoshaphat I. Abu
5. Music Technology is very interesting to me because It’s really many different fields. In particular it’s both...
6. ➢ A creative practice ➢ Making Music ➢ A technical pursuit ➢ A research to develop new tools and technologies ➢ An Algorithm to help us make and disseminate and understand music in different ways
7. Inherently Interdisciplinary ➢ Music theory and Composition ➢ Electrical engineering ➢ Computer science ➢ Mechanical engineering ➢ Desktop design ➢ Psychology and ➢ Many others
8. Music Technology Subfields Jehoshaphat I. Abu
9. Algorithmic composition Audio engineering Audio recording Audio source separation Audio synthesis Audio watermarking Composition Computer music languages Digital rights management Digital signal processing Film music Game music Interactive music Music Technology Subfields
10. Live coding Live sound Locative music Machine musicianship Modular synthesis Multimedia performance Music distribution Music engraving Music identification Music information retrieval Music production Musical instrument design Network music New musical interfaces Psychoacoustics Real-time music notation
11. Robotic musicianship Sonification Sound design
12. Demo Jehoshaphat I. Abu
15. What Next? Jehoshaphat I. Abu
16. Next... ➢ Tools   ➢ Communities  ➢ Academic Study
17. Tools ➢ C++, Reaper, Python, EarSketch, codecircle  ➢ More DAWs, plug-ins ➢ Interfaces, controllers, responders ➢ Programming environments
18. Communities ➢ Professional societies ➢ Mailing lists and forums ➢ EarSketch social media site
19. Academic Study ➢ Online courses ➢ Degree programs ➢ Georgia Tech MS and PhD programs in music technology ➢ Pompeu Fabra University Msc Sound and Music Computing
20. THANK YOU Jehoshaphat I. Abu