Fall 2016 | TTh 11:30am - 1:20pm in the CCRMA Stage (3rd floor) or Classroom (2nd floor)
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Topic in addition to core lecture sequence |
(in class) Listening |
Reading |
Project Out |
Project Due |
| 9/27 |
Course logistics |
Sound Particles demo with Nuno Fonseca |
Dobrian (1997) - Digital Audio
Cook (2002) - Chapter 1 - Digital Audio Signals
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Chapter 2 - Sampling and (Wavetable) Synthesis |
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| 9/29 |
Hydrophone building tutorial
Francis Bacon predicts computer music (1659) |
Michael McNabb: Love in the Asylum (after a poem by Dylan Thomas) |
Cook (2002) - Chapter 3 - Digital Filters and
Chapter 6 - Spectral Modeling and Additive Synthesis
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| 10/4 |
Get CCRMA accountsSign up for bus/boat on Thursday ($10) Monterey Bay
Musical Instrument Spectra |
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano & Chris Chafe: Machimato (open rehearsal) |
Smith (2002) - Spectral Modeling Synthesis and
Additive Synthesis
| Homework 0test the infrastructure for homework |
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| 10/6 |
Whale sound recording field trip |
Concert 7:30pm CCRMA Transitions (also on 10/5 with different program) |
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| 10/11 |
Install fest (Faust and ChucK)
ChucK Intro
FaustLive Intro
Investigating a Whale Recording |
Jonathan Harvey: Mortuous Plango (article by Patricia Dirks) |
Homework 1sonification |
Homework 0 |
| 10/13 |
Microphone building tutorial
Time Scales
Audio Resolution |
Ceclia Wu: Mandala (NIME paper about other recent work) |
Chowning (1973) - FM Synthesis
Schottstaedt - An Introduction to FM |
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| 10/18 |
Encoding in ambisonic format
Curves Visualizations |
Greg Niemeyer, A Day in the Sun (rehearsal)Bill Schottstaedt: Dinosaur Music (article by Stanley Jungleib, from Andrew Nelson's archive) |
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Homework 2radio play |
Homework 1 |
| 10/20 |
Elliot lecture(reverb) |
John Chowning: Turenas (article by the composer) |
Smith (2004) - Virtual Acoustic Musical Instruments: Review and Update |
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| 10/25 |
John Chowning lecture |
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| 10/27 |
Nick lecture (composition)
Loops, Functions, Sporks, Classes |
Natasha Barrett: Topology Chamber 2 (note by the composer) |
Bregman (2005) - Auditory Scene Analysis and the Role of Phenomenology in Experimental Psychology Bregman and Ahad (1996) CD sound examples |
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| 11/1 |
Hongchan Choi lecture
Assembling "sound clips" in chuck |
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Homework 3 |
Homework 2 |
| 11/3 |
tutorial session (chuck syntax, soundcards, hw2/hw3 starter code) |
Holly Herndon w/ Conrad Shawcross: Ada Project (post by Robert Barry) |
Cook (2002) - Chapter 5 - The Fourier Transform |
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| 11/8 |
tutorial sessions (cont'd) |
Chafe music (& name that synth technique --informal quiz) |
Chafe (1999) - Short History of Synthesis clips from cited pieces |
Homework 4 |
Homework 3 |
| 11/10 |
tutorial sessions (cont'd) |
Mark Applebaum: Three Unlikely Corporate Sponsorships (see program note by the composer) |
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Final Project |
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| 11/15 |
Guillermo Pozzatti lecture
Fourier-based Analysis / Resynthesis
| Guillermo Pozzatti: Infinite Suite(program note by the composer)/td>
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| 11/17 |
individual project consultations (sign up req'd)Seminar Room (3rd floor) |
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Homework 4 Final Project Proposal |
| 11/22 |
(no class - Thanksgiving Break) |
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| 11/24 |
(no class - Thanksgiving Break) |
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| 11/29 |
Digital Filters (1)
Digital Filters (2)
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| 12/1 |
Nonlinear Oscillators (bowed strings, etc.)
FFT & IFFT, real-time tracking |
Elliot, acousmatique demo |
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| 12/6 |
(no class - work on projects) |
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| 12/8 |
Final Projects presentation I |
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| 12/15 |
Final Projects II - CCRMA stage, 12:15-3:15pm |
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Final Project |