Dude837 [aka Sam Tajakajian]

References from Sam: Sam’s Favorite YouTube Video (made by Sam) Ali’s Favorite YouTube Video (made by Sam) Sound on Sound: Magazine and online forum with many synth hints “Designing Sound” by Andy Farnell Max Heros: Holly Herndon Walter Murch (excerpt from

R1: Reading Response: Improvisation, Composition, Music & Sound

These three papers have their own interesting take on the art of improvisation and classical composition and the differences and similarities between them. Each writer had a different approach to it but I feel like they all had good points

“Caress”, by Ali Momeni (2015)

This paper documents the iterative development of the Caress, an electroacoustic percussive instrument that blends drumming and audio synthesis in a small and portable form factor. The Caress is an octophonic miniature drum-set for the fingertips that employs multiple acoustically