Schedule – Designing Physical Interactions for Music 2024

• Monday: Get your basic tool chain working
• Tuesday: Delve deeper into the toolchain and begin forming project ideas
• Wednesday: Technology, Design, Start working on projects
• Thursday: Individual work with consultation
• Friday: Present your final project

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Monday

Morning 9am – 12:30pm

• Opening Sketching Exercise
• Class Overview
• Signal flow and toolchain
• Context, History, Examples
• Electronics overview
• Background and Intro To Microcontrollers, Arduino and Teensy Platforms

Afternoon 1:30 – 5pm

• 1:30pm Roger: Musical ideas for various sensors and sound/light outputs (30 minutes)
• Hands on Lab 1: Button In, MIDI out
  = Goal: Send and receive data between Teensy and Computer software.
  = Challenge: Make an interesting instrument with two buttons.
• Finish Hands on Lab 1
• Sensor Lecture 1: FSR, Bend, Photocell, Pot, Softpot, Hall Effect, Piezo, Homemade Sensors, Textiles

Homework

• Sketch 10 ideas
• Bring your lunch so that we can have a short lunch break on Tuesday.

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Tuesday

Morning 9am – 12:30pm

• Design Thoughts: Bill Verplank Interaction’s Design Sketchbook – Button vs Knob. Continuous vs Discrete Gestures
• Sensor Brainstorm Exercise
• Sensor Lecture 2: Proximity, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, IMU, Encoders, Capacitive Sensors
• Serial Protocols (i2c, SPI and UART) AND MIDI Clarified
• Continuous Sensing in Teensy AND Scaling data on the Teensy, Mapping Data in your DAW

Afternoon 1:30pm – 5pm

• 1:30 – 4pm Present your ideas to the class.
• Hands on Lab 2: Knob In, MIDI CC Data out
• 4pm – 5pm Roger: What’s inside LinnStrument and how I created it (60 minutes)

Homework

• Homework: Make a rough plan for three of your ideas

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Wednesday

Morning 9am – 12:30pm

• 9:00 Roger : Tips for making an effective project and presentation (30 minutes)
• Lab Tour
• Materials for Makers Lecture and Sourcing Parts and Materials

Afternoon 1:30pm – 5pm

• Wednesday Afternoon Get Going on projects if ready.

Homework

• Homework: For one of your ideas, make a detailed plan or proof of concept.

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Thursday

Morning 9am – 12:30pm

• Sensor Lecture 3: Sensing Systems – Wii, Leap Motion, Sensel, Cameras, etc
• CAD/CAM
• Physical Interconnects – Advantages, Options, Demonstration
• Teensy Audio Library
• Requests?
• Group check in about the state of your piece
• 11am Roger: Making your project into a commercial product (30 minutes)
• 11:30am Individual working with consultation

Afternoon 1:30pm – 5pm

• Individual working with consultation

Homework

• Wrap up your project and concentrate on how you will demonstrate it on Friday.

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Friday

Morning 9am – 12:30pm

• Morning – Make any final adjustments to projects and setup in stage.

Afternoon

1pm – 3pm Final Projects
3pm – 4pm Wrap Up Conversation
4pm – 5pm Clean Up

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Roger’s Course Guide:

• https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/more/ccrma-workshop-2020
• Homework: Make a rough plan for three of your ideas

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Optional Lectures

Please note that given the time constraints of this one week workshop, we can only provide a short introduction to each of these subjects and pointers to places where you can go to learn more.

• Motors, Kinetics and Mechatronics – The Basics, Further Resources and Interesting Work.
• OSC: Open Sound Control
• CAD Design
• Haptics
• Max/MSP