| Date | Lecture Topics, Notes and Videos | (in class) Listening | Reading | Project Out | Project Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/26 | Course logistics Needle drop (first meeting notes) | Dobrian (1997) - Digital Audio Cook (2002) - Chapter 1 - Digital Audio Signals and Chapter 2 - Sampling and (Wavetable) Synthesis | |||
| 9/28 | Audio Resolution Musical Instrument Spectra | Jonathan Harvey: Mortuous Plango (article by Patricia Dirks) (after a poem by Dylan Thomas) | Cook (2002) - Chapter 3 - Digital Filters and Chapter 6 - Spectral Modeling and Additive Synthesis | ||
| 10/3 | Get CCRMA accounts Hydrophone building tutorial Sign up for bus/boat on 10/10 ($10) Monterey Bay | Smith (2002) - Spectral Modeling Synthesis and Additive Synthesis | |||
| 10/5 | John Chowning lecture and performance with Maureen Chowning | Concert 7:30pm CCRMA Transitions (also on 10/4 with different program) | Chowning (1973) - FM Synthesis Schottstaedt - An Introduction to FM | Homework 0 test the infrastructure for homework | |
| 10/10 | Whale sound recording field trip | Homework 1 sonification | Homework 0 | ||
| 10/12 | Microphone building tutorial Francis Bacon predicts computer music (1659) | John Chowning: Turenas (article by the composer) | Smith (2004) - Virtual Acoustic Musical Instruments: Review and Update | ||
| 10/17 | Encoding in ambisonic format Curves Visualizations Time Scales ChucK tutorial | Bill Schottstaedt: Dinosaur Music (article by Stanley Jungleib, from Andrew Nelson's archive) | Bregman (2005) - Auditory Scene Analysis and the Role of Phenomenology in Experimental Psychology Bregman and Ahad (1996) CD sound examples | Homework 2 radio play | Homework 1 |
| 10/19 | Emily Graber lecture Chuck tutorial | ||||
| 10/24 | Loops, Functions, Sporks, Classes Chuck tutorial | temperature and CO2 sonification
5 minutes, 850-present (plucks are temp, sustain is CO2) |
Chafe (1999) - Short History of Synthesis clips from cited pieces | ||
| 10/26 | Nolan Lem lecture | ||||
| 10/31 | Assembling "sound clips" in chuck Chuck tutorial | Homework 3 | Homework 2 | ||
| 11/2 | Digital Filters (1) Chuck tutorial | Natasha Barrett: Topology Chamber 2 (note by the composer) | Cook (2002) - Chapter 5 - The Fourier Transform | ||
| 11/7 | Digital Filters (2) | Chafe music (& name that synth technique) | Homework 4 | Homework 3 | |
| 11/9 | sound installation field trip Oakland / SF | Final Project | |||
| 11/14 | Fourier-based Analysis / Resynthesis | ||||
| 11/16 | individual project consultations (sign up req'd) Seminar Room (3rd floor) | Homework 4 Final Project Proposal | |||
| 11/21 | (no class - Thanksgiving Break) | ||||
| 11/23 | (no class - Thanksgiving Break) | ||||
| 11/28 | Kitty Shi's study | Séverine Ballon demo/performance | |||
| 11/30 | Nonlinear Oscillators (bowed strings, etc.) | ||||
| 12/5 | (no class - work on projects) | ||||
| 12/7 | Final Projects presentation I - CCRMA stage, 11:30-1:20pm | Final Project | |||
| 12/14 | Final Projects II - CCRMA stage, 12:15-3:15pm | Final Project |