First assignment for Advanced Computer Music Composition : Create something with Max/MSP. 

I have had no experience with Max/MSP whatsoever, I wanted to crash the computer a few times (but restrained to do so because it was school property), but I managed to come up with SOMETHING in the end. 

Made four different groove patches - each patch had a buffer that read and stored the music samples and loop-played them forward or backwards at any desired speed (which could be done by inputting number values - negative numbers indicate that the samples will be read backwards). The samples I used were those that I had recorded last semester for my acoustics class. The instrument is the kayagum, a Korean 12-stringed zither.

Doesn't have much development or structure, but I tried to make it a little organized at least by introducing the different elements one at a time, playing around with the speed, building up a sort of "climax" before the "resolution" to the normal speed, and then taking away the elements one by one for the ending.

I don't know, the electronic music that I'm exposed to during class are beyond my understanding and I feel like I'm listening to horror movies (you should see the expressions that creep up on my face while I listen to the 10-minute pieces). Hopefully I'll learn HOW to listen to them by the end of the semester.