This page hosts some additional course materials for the Auditory Computing module at UCL Computer Science, for delivery in Term 2 (January-March 2027). For the main body of course materials, please see the Moodle page.

Tutorial Sessions

Tutorial information will be provided here closer to the time.

Links & Resources

Some of these may be discussed or used in lectures or practicals, others are purely for interest. At some point they might get organised along such lines, but in the meantime feel free to browse around.

Audio Analysis & Editing

• Audacity
• ocenaudio

Audio Synthesis & Processing

• Pure Data (Pd)
  • Tutorial: Programming Electronic Music in Pd
  • Purr Data
• SuperCollider
• Csound
• Cmajor
• Nyquist
• Sound As Pure Form
• FluidSynth
• VCV Rack
• SignalFlow
• Pedalboard
• SoundThread
• Composers Desktop Project
  • Download

Auditory Modeling

• Auditory Modeling Toolbox
• Al Bregman’s Auditory Scene Analysis

Sonification

• Sonification Archive
  • Data Sonification Canvas
  • Paper
• Data Sonification Toolkit
• STRAUSS
  • docs
  • paper

Music Analysis

• Dannenberg Introduction to Music Concepts
• CMU Computer Music Project
• Music21
• LibRosa
• Modest

Music Notation

• MuseScore
• LilyPond

Live Coding

• TidalCycles
• Strudel
• Estuary

Algorithmic Composition

• AthenaCL (modern fork by Ales Tsurko)
  • moribund original by Christopher Ariza (Ariza was one of the lead developers on music21, but seems to have moved away from music. His home site makes no mention of AthenaCL.)
• FluCoMa
  • DataKnot
• NotaGen