MEETING June 12, 2012
PURPOSE: Update on KIns project and general discussion
DISCUSSION: We are working with a lot of pre-existing code to create modifications and build our own instrumentation and compositions. Given that the class is geared towards students with no programming experience, we agreed this would be a good way for them to "dive in" into the code and learn how it works because they can manipulate the code and immediately hear the result. This will give them some familiarity with code structure and documentation. Giving students partially completed code in a lab would give them a chance to work with the code, and the assignment following would expand this. There is a plethora of code available as open source. An exercise may include asking them to add a feature, or show how they took existing code to create new sounds, compositions, beats, et cetera. We discussed generally to keep in mind exercises and labs to create from the KIns development.
PLAN: Freda and Lucy will post their code on the KIns instrument. Lucy is working with MAUI Elements to create a GUI. Jan and Julia are developing a graphic visualization using Processing/OSC/chucK, and Jan is continuing to review code samples/examples to incorporate in our own development.
