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• Software to Install Before Attending
• Files for Use In the Workshop
• Example Scratch Music Programs
• Sound Thinking Assignment Write-Ups
• Workshop Resource Notebooks
• Participants’ Future Interdisciplinary Plans
• Pre- and Post-Workshop Questionnaires & Evaluations
  

Software to Install Before Attending   Top

Audacity 2.0.2

we use Audacity to edit sound files

• Main Audacity website:  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Audacity 2.0.2 download page:  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

LAME Library for Audacity   Top

the LAME library is required to export sound files in MP3 format

• Important directions for downloading and installing:  http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#lame
• Actual download page:  http://lame1.buanzo.com.ar/

Scratch 1.4   Top

• Main Scratch website:  http://scratch.mit.edu/
• Scratch download page:  http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_1.4_Download/
• IchiBoard drivers:  http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm

Files for Use In the Workshop   Top

• Found Sound Pieces (ZIP file, 15.25 MB)
• Files for Scratch Sequencing Exercise (ZIP file, 8.36 MB)
  • Chunks to be Sequenced (Scratch file)
  • Full Melody (MP3 file)
  • Assignment Text (PDF file)
• Suggested Songs for Flowcharting Exercise — local copies
  • Call Me Maybe — Carly Rae Jepson — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic
  • Some Nights — Fun — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkBeOisNM0
  • Ho He — Lumineers — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCBSSwgtg4
  • Let It Be — Beatles — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajCYQL8ouqw
  • Rolling in the Deep — Adele — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw
  • Stay — Rhianna — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF8BRvqGCNs
  • Granade — Bruno Mars — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6iYWJxHqs
  • If I Loved You — Carousel — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuHAh-2xGxw
  • Wild Thing — The Troggs — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9DVJE_bhVU
  • We Will Rock You — Queen — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMLiqEqMQyQ
  • Let’s Dance — David Bowie — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA
  • Chain of Fools — Aretha Franklin — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rwvH7Y4RG8

Example Scratch Music Programs   Top

• Scratch Demos Used in Our Classes (ZIP file, 1.32 MB)
• Happy Birthday — in four-part barbershop harmony
• Computational Zeppelin — Jimmy Page’s famous riff
• Modulo Pitch Generator for the Minor Pentatonic Scale — for use with the IchiBoard
• Modulo Pitch Generator for the Blues and Diatonic Scales — for use with the IchiBoard
• Progressive Scratch Music Examples — all of the following in a single ZIP file
  • 01-PlayNotes.sb
  • 02-PlayNotesVariables.sb
  • 03-SeparatingInitialization.sb
  • 04-SeparatingPhrases.sb
  • 05-LoopingAndFading.sb
  • 06-PlayingRound-OneInstrument.sb
  • 07-PlayingRound-TwoInstruments.sb
  • 08-StoringInLists.sb
  • 09-PlayingRound-UsingLists.sb
  • 10-SynchronizingPlayFromLists.sb
  • 11-PlayingScales.sb
• Scratch Keypress Recorder — developed by Prof. Mona Rizvi of Norfolk State University at our Making Music with Scratch workshop at SIGCSE 2011

Sound Thinking Assignment Write-Ups   Top

1. Creating a Composition for a Found Objects Instrument
2. Creating a Composition from Digitized Found Sounds
3. Creating a Song Flowchart
4. Sequencing Sounds with Scratch
5. Creating a Composition Based on Major Seconds and Perfect Fifths
6. Transposing with Scratch
7. Using IchiBoards and Sensors
8. Final Sound Thinking Project and Performance

Workshop Resource Notebooks   Top

• For the workshop on March 6, 2013 (PDF file)
• For the workshop on January 17-18, 2013 (PDF file)
• For the workshop on June 21-22, 2012 (PDF file)
• For the pilot workshop on April 27, 2012 (PDF file)

Participants’ Future Interdisciplinary Plans   Top

• Plans generated at the workshop on June 21-22, 2012 (http://bit.ly/umlperfplans0612)

Pre- and Post-Workshop Questionnaires & Evaluations   Top

• Pre-Workshop Questionnaire for the workshop on March 6, 2013
• Post-Workshop Evaluation for the workshop on January 17-18, 2013
• Pre-Workshop Questionnaire for the workshop on January 17-18, 2013
• Post-Workshop Evaluation for the workshop on June 21-22, 2012 (http://bit.ly/umlperfeval0612)
• Pre-Workshop Questionnaire for the workshop on June 21-22, 2012 (http://bit.ly/umlperfpre0612)