Kadenze Courses

Goldsmiths University of London

Machine Learning for Musicians and Artists

92 reviews

Have you ever wanted to build a new musical instrument that responded to your gestures by making sound? Or create live visuals to accompany a dancer? Or create an interactive art installation that reacts to the movements or actions of an audience? If so,…

• Kadenze
• 7 weeks
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Max MSP Programming Course: Structuring Interactive Software for Digital Arts

61 reviews

Max is a powerful platform that accommodates and connects a wide variety of tools for sound, graphics, music and interactivity using a flexible patching and programming environment. Max allows most computer users to write a simple, meaningful program wit…

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• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Ableton Live Course: Sound Production for Musicians and Artists

47 reviews

This course provides hands-on experience in producing, mixing, and sound design with a digital audio workstation. Students will learn the fundamentals (physics) of sound and digital audio, proper gain staging, where and how distortion enters recordings a…

• Kadenze
• 9 weeks
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Creative Applications of Deep Learning with TensorFlow

45 reviews

This first course in the two-part program, Creative Applications of Deep Learning with TensorFlow, introduces you to deep learning: the state-of-the-art approach to building artificial intelligence algorithms. We cover the basic components of deep learni…

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• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Physics-Based Sound Synthesis for Games and Interactive Systems

22 reviews

This course introduces the basics of Digital Signal Processing and computational acoustics, motivated by the vibrational physics of real-world objects and systems. We will build from a simple mass-spring and pendulum to demonstrate oscillation, learn how…

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• 9 weeks
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Programming for the Visual Arts with p5.js

36 reviews

This course is an introduction to writing code within the context of the visual arts. It asks two primary questions: What is the potential of software within the visual arts? As a designer or artist, why would I want (or need) to write software? Softwa…

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• 10 weeks
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Real-Time Audio Programming in ChucK

32 reviews

The course, lecture, and examples build on each other to teach the fundamentals of programming in general (logic, loops, functions, objects, classes) and also deals with advanced topics including multi-threading, events and signals. Throughout the course…

• Kadenze
• 8 weeks
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Cornish College of the Arts

Introduction to Graphic Illustration

23 reviews

In today’s diverse consumer market, illustration exists through many forms of expression breaking with traditional roles of the illustrator. Through a series of projects, students will explore the translation, production and distribution of their visual…

• Kadenze
• 6 weeks
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Careers in Media Technology

3 reviews

Explore how leading audio, music, and video technology companies bring products from idea to market, and discover your career options in the industry! In five 30- to 60-minute sessions, you’ll gain insight into daily life at companies such as Adobe, Univ…

• Kadenze
• 5 weeks
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Online Jamming and Concert Technology

3 reviews

Today's vast amount of streaming and video conferencing on the Internet lacks one aspect of musical fun and that's what this course is about: high-quality, near-synchronous musical collaboration. Under the right conditions, the Internet can be used for u…

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• 5 weeks
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Simon Fraser University

Generative Art and Computational Creativity

20 reviews

This first course in the two-part program, Generative Art and Computational Creativity, proposes an introduction and overview of the history and practice of generative arts and computational creativity with an emphasis on the formal paradigms and algorit…

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• 12 weeks
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Real-Time Audio Signal Processing in Faust

The Faust programming language provides a generic way to implement signal processing algorithms for sound synthesis and processing towards professional audio applications. Thanks to its architecture system, Faust can be used to generate a wide range of r…

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• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

California College of the Arts

Comics: Art in Relationship

15 reviews

Comics are one of the most popular and exciting ways to tell a story. This course offers a look at the fundamental building blocks of the comic book medium. Exploring panel to panel transitions, text to image relationships, and the intricacies of page la…

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• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Processing Foundation

The Nature of Code

14 reviews

Can we capture the unpredictable evolutionary and emergent properties of nature in software? Can understanding the mathematical principles behind our physical world help us to create digital worlds? This class focuses on the programming strategies and te…

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• 5 weeks
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Maryland Institute College of Art

Introduction to Graphic Design

14 reviews

In a series of dynamic conversations, renowned authors and leading faculty at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Brockett Horne and Ellen Lupton will introduce you to fascinating people and processes that changed the way we communicate. Where did g…

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• On-Demand
• Free Online Course