By expanding on the ‘pillars of sound design’ in order to develop understanding of the concept of a sound as a consequence of process rather than a specific entity, we as a class began to work in pure data in order to create simple monophonic oscillators.

Today’s session was an introduction to Pure Data, however, from Milo’s delivery I interpreted it as an introduction to understanding creative possibility and the relations between sound objects.

One of the prompts with today’s lesson was ‘think about the relationship between the sound and the listener’. The shift into the analytical and Pure Data went in parrallel with this concept from my perspective, as understanding the relationships that evolve within the program are all valuable and representative of a link between cause and effect. In the introduction to pure data I created sine, saw, and square waveform oscilators alongside reading the floss pure data manuals.

Throughout the progression of this course I hope to expand and experiment in this practice, and utilize pure data in hardware as well, documenting my progress through blog posts and composition.