This is the second course in the 220 series. It covers some basic sound synthesis techniques not covered last quarter (see 220a), algorithmic composition techniques, spatialization and some psychoacoustics. The course uses the CLM-2 (Common Lisp Music) environment to create all sound examples and the Common Lisp programming language (in which clm-2 itself is implemented) for all programming examples.
Common Lisp Music (CLM) is a public domain sound design language written
on top of Common Lisp, currently running in Macintosh PowerPCs, Windows
and several UNIX environments including SGI, Sun, NeXT and Linux.
Evaluation consists of 4 assignments and a final project. Each assignment
builds on the knowledge of the previous one, and the final outcome is a
final project which is usually a computer music composition. This project
is going to be presented during the finals week.
Assignment
submission track sheet
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Topic goal | Assignment |
JAN | 1 | 6 | Lisp, xemacs, clm, intro to cellular automatas... | 8 | modulation synthesis; cellular automatas | Introduction | Ia (5%) sound check, due Thursday Jan 8 at sunset Ib (10%) synthesis and automatas - due Friday 23 at sunset |
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2 | 13 | Modulation Synthesis | 15 | more on Modulation Synthesis | II (10%) | |
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3 | 20 | Granular Synthesis, sampling rate conversion | 22 | |
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4 | 27 | Common Music Patterns | 29 | III (15%) | ||
FEB | 5 | 03 | Spatialization | 05 | |
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6 | 10 | 12 | Chaos, Fractals | IV (20%) | ||
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7 | 17 | Digital Filters, Substractive Synthesis | 19 | |
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8 | 24 | Physical Modelling |
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Final Project (40%) - presentation 3 weeks later |
MAR | 9 | 02 | ATS, resynthesis |
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10 | 9 | 11 | Wrap-up |
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11 | 16 | final's | 18 | week | Presentation | |
Additive synthesis, Modulation Synthesis, Physical Modeling, Digital Filters and Substractive Synthesis. Spatialization techniques, VBAP, HRTF, Reverberation models. Random processes, State machines, Cellular automatas, Chaos, Fractals (applied to algorithmic composition).
Supplementary information and links (Winter 2001), by Chris Burns.
Music 220b meets Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:15am to 11:45am. Winter quarter only, in the Ballroom at CCRMA. The course can only be taken for 4 (four) units.
©2001-2004 Fernando Lopez-Lezcano. All Rights Reserved. nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
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