| Date | Lecture Topics, Notes and Videos | Listening (in class and concerts) | Reading | Project Out | Project Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/24 | Course logistics Needle drop | Dobrian (1997) - Digital Audio Cook (2002) - Chapter 1 - Digital Audio Signals and Chapter 2 - Sampling and (Wavetable) Synthesis | |||
| 9/26 | Hydrophone building tutorial Doga Cavdir's recent projects Demo of Gametrak and chuck | Cook (2002) - Chapter 3 - Digital Filters and Chapter 6 - Spectral Modeling and Additive Synthesis | start on a hydrophone | ||
| 10/1 | Get CCRMA accounts Sign up for bus/boat on 10/15 ($10) Monterey Bay Musical Instrument Spectra Audio Resolution | Jonathan Harvey: Mortuous Plango (article by Patricia Dirks) | Smith (2002) - Spectral Modeling Synthesis and Additive Synthesis | Homework 0 test the infrastructure for homework | |
| 10/3 | Chuck tutorial
computing scenarios (in or out of real time) lecture notes hydrophone testing |
John Chowning: Turenas (article by the composer) | Chowning (1973) - FM Synthesis Schottstaedt - An Introduction to FM | ||
| 10/8 | homework 1 intro
Francis Bacon predicts computer music (1659)
FM in chuck chuck intro video |
Concert: Tuesday night, 10/9
7:30pm (Stage) Palle Dahlstedt, Per Anders Nilsson Living Strings - Palle Dahlstedt |
Homework 1 sonification | Homework 0 | |
| 10/10 | Microphone building tutorial
homework discussion whale sound recordings |
Bill Schottstaedt: Dinosaur Music (article by Stanley Jungleib, from Andrew Nelson's archive) | Smith (2004) - Virtual Acoustic Musical Instruments: Review and Update | start on a microphone | |
| 10/15 | Whale sound recording field trip | 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 | |
| 10/17 | homework 2 intro
chuck tutorial
whales from Monday's trip |
CCRMA Transitions Concerts: (see email to rsvp) Thursday night, 10/18 7pm, 9pm Friday night, 10/19 7pm, 9pm (different program) | |||
| 10/22 | John Chowning lecture and... | ...live performance of Voices with Maureen Chowning | Chafe (1999) - Short History of Synthesis clips from cited pieces | ||
| 10/24 | Curves in music Assembling "sound clips" in chuck Chuck tutorial (in Stage, optional, join smaller group with a laptop for basic chuck tour) | Ricardo Climent: VR performance - A Chinese Folktale for Pipa and Synthesized Syrinx | Homework 3 illusions, FM, chuck clips | Homework 2 | |
| 10/29 | Digital Filters (1) Chuck patterns: loops (functions, sporks, classes) | Natasha Barrett: Involuntary Expression (note by the composer) | |||
| 10/31 | Orchi Das lecture Fourier-based Analysis / Resynthesis |
Concert: Thursday night, 11/1
7:30pm (Stage) Sideband (Bay Area Tour) |
Cook (2002) - Chapter 5 - The Fourier Transform | Homework 4 ADC, Efx, patterns | Homework 3 |
| 11/5 | Digital Filters (2) Final Project introduction |
Chafe music (& name that synth technique) | |||
| 11/7 | Hongchan Choi, Web Audio API and its future ( slides ) | Homework 5 Gametrak | Homework 4 | ||
| 11/12 | Nonlinear Oscillators (bowed strings, etc.) | Jouska, for violin and live electronics Michi Theurer, violin Chris Lortie (2018) |
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| 11/14 | individual project consultations (sign up req'd) Seminar Room (3rd floor) | Homework 5 Final Project Proposal | |||
| 11/19 | (no class - Thanksgiving Break) | ||||
| 11/21 | (no class - Thanksgiving Break) | ||||
| 11/26 | The World According to Sound Podcasts 90-second audio shows | Concert: Monday night, 11/26
7:30pm (Stage) Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett The World According to Sound, Live! |
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| 12/3 | (no class - work on projects) | ||||
| 12/5 | Final Projects presentation I - CCRMA stage, 1:30-3:20pm | Final Project | |||
| 12/12 | Final Projects II - CCRMA stage, 3:30-6:30pm (extending later, dinner included) | Final Project |