Music 120Z Fall 2003 Course schedule
- Week 0: introduction
- Course information and objectives
- Wednesday, September 24
- Week 1: the voice
- techniques: pro tools basics; fades, zero crossings, and splices
- Monday, September 29
- listening: Berio, Harvey, Stockhausen Gesang
- reading: Harvey, Smith Brindle
- Wednesday, October 1
- Week 2: variation and transformation
- techniques: stereo, multichannel, and diffusion; layering, plug-ins, and bouncing
- Monday, October 6 (Yom Kippur)
- assignment 1: speech manipulation
- Wednesday, October 8
- listening: Nono, Schottstaedt, Vaggione
- reading: Gould, Harrison
- Week 3: rhythm and ostinato
- techniques: beat alignment and looping
- Monday, October 13
- assignment 2: theme & variations
- concert: Nella mente di Pietro
- Giancarlo Schiaffini, trombone and electronics; Silvia Schiavoni, voice
- Knoll Ballroom, 8 pm
- Wednesday, October 15
- listening: Cetta, Lansky, Prestia
- reading: McAdams & Bregman
- Week 4: narrative
- techniques: field recording
- Monday, October 20
- assignment 3: groove & ostinato
- Wednesday, October 22
- listening: Dhomont, Gobeil, Vande Gorne
- reading: Roy
- Thursday, October 23
- concert: new San Francisco Tape Music Center
- multichannel diffusion concert of new and classic works for tape
- Knoll Ballroom, 8 pm; attendance required
- Week 5: abstraction
- techniques: digital audio basics
- Monday, October 27
- assignment 4: narrative
- Wednesday, October 29
- listening: Berezan, Harrison, Varése
- reading: Treib & Felciano
- concert: Fall 2003 CCRMA Concert
- music for piano and electronics, and for tape
- Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center, 8 pm
- Week 6: precompositional schemes
- techniques: granular synthesis
- Monday, November 3
- assignment 5: arch form
- Wednesday, November 5
- listening: Burns, Stockhausen Kontakte, Xenakis
- reading: Harley
- Week 7: process forms
- techniques: filtering
- Monday, November 10
- assignment: precompositional plan
- Wednesday, November 12
- listening: Lucier, Oliveros, Reich
- reading: Lucier, Reich
- Thursday, November 13
- concert: Stefano Scodanibbio, contrabass
- new music for the doublebass including works by Estrada, Ferneyhough, and Sciarrino
- Campbell Recital Hall, 8 pm
- Week 8: reference and "plundering"
- techniques: TBA
- Monday, November 17
- assignment: gradual process / transformation
- Tuesday, November 18
- concert: new multimedia and installation works
- film, sound, and video from the San Francisco Art Institute, plus sound installations by CCRMA composers
- Knoll Ballroom, 8 pm
- Wednesday, November 19
- listening: Ferreyra, Oswald, Oval
- reading: Cascone, Cutler, Oswald
- Week 9: acoustic ecology
- techniques: reverberation
- Sunday, November 23
- concert: Luigi Nono: La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura
- Community Music Center SF (544 Capp Street, the Mission, SF), 8 pm
- Monday, November 24
- assignment: referential collage
- Wednesday, November 26
- listening: Cage, Keller, Westerkamp
- reading: Schafer
- Week 10: wrap-up (end-quarter period)
- Monday, December 1
- individual meetings re: final projects
- Wednesday, December 3
- individual meetings re: final projects
Week 11: exam period
- Sunday, December 7
- concert: Wet Ink
- presentation of final projects
- Knoll Ballroom, 8 pm
- Monday, December 8
- assignment: final project submission
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