Introduction to Computer Music

Gesang der Jünglinge

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a prolific and influential composer in the second half of the 20th century. The Beatles considered him important enough to include on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Gesang der Jünglinge (1955-56) is often considered the first true electronic masterpiece, pre-dating Poème électronique by a couple of years.

 

 

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Week Three Instruments

UPDATE: Replacing ear training binaries with versions in presentation mode. Please redownload from these links rather than bookmarks.

A little later than promised, but here are the Week Three example instruments for Max. I have built compiled versions of the ear training tool for both PC and Mac. 

Instrument Archive:

Ear Training tool for PC:

Ear Training tool for Mac:

Week Three Slides

This week, we'll be adding minor/chromatic intervals into the mix and begin working on melodic dictation. On the electronic side, I'll introduce the two most common varieties of Amplitude Modulation.

Slides for Week Three are below.

Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco

This is a personal favorite by British composer Jonathan Harvey.

I was intrigued to find that an audiovisual installation piece was done amost 30 years after the original music was written in 1980. This video is of that installation.

Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco from visual kitchen on Vimeo.

 

This piece is available as an Amazon download here.