154: Syllabus
Week 1
- Wednesday, April 3
- Intro (David)
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- Broad introduction to Electronic Music and IDEAMA (Johannes)
- Listening assignment (due April 10) - Edgar Varese: Poeme Electronique.
Make a cassette dub for future course use. In essay form, describe your
personal reactions to this work (be as specific as possible).
Select two pieces from the IDEAMA collection; make cassette dubs and
familiarize yourself with both pieces.
Week 2
- Monday April 8 (David)
- Basics of acoustics
- Sound, Sinusoids, Timbre; Terminology
- Wednesday April 10 (David)
- Artikulation
- Discuss graph-making techniques (color transparencies),
analytical approach.
- Early composition techniques
- Assignment (due April 15)
- make a graph of Poeme Electronique
Week 3
- Monday April 15 (David)
- Discussion of Poeme Electronique
- Its composition, and students graphs.
- Assignment (due April 24)
- Read papers on Poeme Electronique and write a brief resume of both readings.
- Wednesday April 17 (Nicky)
- Discuss electronic instruments from past to present I
Week 4
- Monday April 22 (Nicky)
- Discuss electronic instruments from past to present II
- Wednesday April 24 (David)
- Synthesis (and listening to pieces) I
Week 5
- Monday April 29 (David)
- Synthesis (and listening to pieces) II
- Listening assignment (due May 6): Jean-Claude Risset: Sud
- Wednesday May 1 (David)
- Psychoacoustics
- Perception of: spatialization, distance; fusion; paradoxical tones
- Musical examples
- John Chowning: Turenas; Risset: Paradoxical Sounds
Week 6
- Monday May 6 (Johannes)
- Modeling Sound
- mimicry vs. new sounds / analysis, resynthesis, re-combination;
abstractly conceived sounds (granular synthesis), etc.
- Wednesday May 8 (Johannes)
- Algorithmic Composition
- Sound and musical structure
- The dream of micro-macro relationship
- Parametric thinking
Week 7
- Monday May 13 (Johannes)
- Interview With Max Matthews
- Listening assignment (due May 20)
- Attend and write a review of Wednesday's CCRMA concert
- Wednesday May 15 (Johannes)
- CCRMA Industrial Affiliates Meeting
- Everyone attends at least one of the presentations
Week 8
- Monday May 20 (David)
- Live electronics
- Analog and Digital; Live vs. Canned; Realtime vs.non-Real-time
- Final Project handed out (due on June 5)
- Wednesday May 22 (David)
- Live electronics continued
- Schedule for student presentations
Week 9
- Monday May 27 (Holiday - no classes)
- Wednesday May 29 (Nicky)
- MIDI, sequencers, interactive performances (pitch trackers, triggers);
commercial programs; digital recording.
Week 10
- Monday June 3 and Wednesday June 5
- Student presentations
- FINAL PROJECTS DUE ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5TH