Music 220a: Foundations of Computer-Generated Sound

CCRMA Knoll Building Classroom, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am - noon

Chris Chafe with Jose Rio-Pareja (TA office hrs. Thurs. 2:15 to 4:45 rm 302)

turning in homework online to the Homework factory

September 2005

register // unix // Pd

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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27
Rob H. music
Pd lab1
Per Bloland Elsewhere

28(optional) Science of Musical Sound, J.R. Pierce reprinted as reader

29
Aaron T. music
Pd lab2/hw1
Ruv. & Cac. Laptop duo

30

October 2005

Snd // Scheme // CM

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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4
JJ W. music
Scheme data types
Phillippe Manoury Jupiter

5
Scheme iteration

6
Daniel K. music
Snd lab1
Theremin DVD

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8

hw1 clips due online

9

10

11
Max C. music
Snd lab2/hw2
Chafe Oxygen Flute / Ping

12

13
Moonseok K. music
Build mic
Harvey Mortuos Plango

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17

hw2 clips due online

18

Isak H. music
Pd lab3/hw3
Chowning Turenas

19

20
Kevin K. /Jung L. music
Snd lab3
Scodanibbio

21 Scodanibbio concert 8pm CCRMA Stage

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25
Collin O. music
Snd lab4
An index of metals

26

hw3 clips due online

27
midterm

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29

midterm answers in email

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November 2005

Stk // Praat

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1
Kjetil M. music

Taube

2

Taube

Colloq 5:15

3
Sandy L. music

hw4

4

5

6 Subotnick concert 8pm CCRMA Stage

7

hw4 clips due online

8
Miguel M. music


Subotnick

9

10
John S. music
hw5-part1
music Stockhausen Kontakte

11

hw5-part2

12

13

14

hw5 clips due online

15
Tatsuki K. music
8pm Morales Chafe Duo

16

hw6

17
Sam A. music
Niemeyer Organum Playtest

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21

hw6 clips due online

22
Thanksgiving break

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Thanksgiving

25

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29
Michael F. music


Reich Come Out

30

December 2005

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1
Derwin F. music

Vinao Triple Concerto

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6
Matt M. music

Toplap

7

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last
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7pm
project
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Sep. 27

How much sound is 100 ms? Needledrop demo, peridodicity, bottom end of hearing (sound systems).

Sep. 29

Music clips contain 1000 years? Context and implicit timescales, perceptual windows, spectral windows, bandwidth/time tradeoff.

Oct. 4

Cello lesson of the future #1. What are the timescales and elements of expression? Physical and acoustical descriptions.

Oct. 6

Theremin to note lists to physical models. Architectures for expression. How to measure the speed of sound in the backyard, FIR, IIR echoes.

Oct. 11

Echoes inside air columns and across stretched strings. 2D wave motions.

Oct. 13

Building electret condenser mics.

Oct. 18

Sight-reading sonograms. Noise, overtones, additive synth, Grey thesis, discovering FM. Nyquist limit.

Oct. 20

Everything is a filter!(?). Components in Schroeder-style reverb.

Oct. 25

Convolution reverb. Complexes of resonators.

Oct. 27

Midterm exam handed out.

Nov. 1

Stk, Common Music evolves, Rick Taube

Nov. 3

Cello lesson of the future #2, subharmonics. Non-linearity, dynamical wave motions in performance. Grace Leslie, spatial work.

Nov. 8

Subotnick

Nov. 10

Dynamical system instrument (clarinet-like), CM objects, 220a software structure, Stk assignment.

Nov. 15

Short history of synthesis -- & -- Physical models in the hands of composers.

Nov. 17

Network collaboration through audio streaming. Delay issues.

Nov. 29

CCARH resources.

Dec. 1

Ornamentation and new works of Jose's.

To do: David Huron's work, Humdrum

Notation hooks, Lilypond, Motion capture, gesture analysis,

fMRI, Ambisonics