| Date | Topic | Reading | Project Out | Project Due | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/22 | Logistics, audio basics (physics + digital audio) | Digital Audio by Christopher Dobrian | Homework 0 | ||
| 9/24 | Hydrophone demo, digital audio (contd.), get CCRMA accounts | ||||
| 9/29 | Introduction to digital sound synthesis – reading spectrograms, additive techniques and SMS, time-varying envelopes | Smith (2002) - Spectral Modeling Synthesis and Additive Synthesis | Homework 1 | Homework 0 | |
| 10/1 | Wavetable synthesis (web audio demo) | Cook (2002) - Chapter 2 - Sampling (Wavetable) Synthesis | |||
| 10/2 | WHALE WATCHING TRIP | ||||
| 10/6 | Intro to digital filters, measuring speed of sound, measuring impulse responses (which are applied in binaural rendering for upcoming homeworks) | Intro to Filters Cook (2002) - Chapter 3 - Digital Synthesis | Homework 2 | Homework 1 | |
| 10/8 | ADC input, comb filter in Chuck, laptop orchestra demo | ||||
| 10/13 | Hongchan Choi guest lecture on the Web Audio API. | Chafe (1999) Short History of Synthesis clips from cited pieces | |||
| 10/15 | Short History of Synthesis, excitation / resonance instrument models. Time-varying comb filter, FM + AM, waveform disortion in general | AM Synthesis Intro Cook (2002) - FM Synthesis - pg 116-119 (Section 10.3.2) | Homework 3 | Homework 2 | |
| 10/20 | John Chowning lecture on FM | ||||
| 10/22 | MH and KS lecture | Bregman (2005) Auditory Scene Analysis and the Role of Phenomenology in Experimental Psychology Bregman and Ahad (1996) CD sound examples | Homework 4 | Homework 3 | |
| 10/27 | Mic-making, introduction to actual physics of physical modeling comparing stretched strings and tubes to comb filter resonators. | Smith (2004) Virtual Acoustic Musical Instruments: Review and Update 6.5-6.8 in the ChucK book | Final Project | ||
| 10/29 | First-principles physical modeling techniques and dynamical systems for self-sustained oscillations. | Homework 5 | Homework 4 | ||
| 11/3 | First-principles (cont'd) physical modeling techniques, dynamical systems, also panning, efx relevant to HW5. | Hartmann (2013) - Localization of Sound | |||
| 11/5 | Intro to spatialization and artificial reverberation. | Cook (2002) - Chapter 5 - The Fourier Transform | Final Project Proposal | ||
| 11/10 | Fourier Transform, time/frequency trade-off. | Homework 5 | |||
| 11/12 | Sonification-athon. | Chapter 11 in the ChucK book A thorough MIDI introduction | |||
| 11/17 | Roberto Morales guest lecture / demo, MIDI, OSC. | ||||
| 11/19 | individual project consultations (sign up req'd) | ||||
| 12/1 | Convolution reverb examples, Faust examples. Play "name that technique" listening to some of CC's compositions. | Wang (2007) A history of programming and music in The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music - Nick Collins, ed. | |||
| 12/3 | Final Projects presentation I | ||||
| 12/9 | Final Projects II - CCRMA stage, 12:15-3:15pm | Final Project |