Schedule: Fall 2023

Sep 26 Tue
  • Course intro
  • CCRMA accounts
  • How long is 100msec?
  • In-class webchuck lab
  • Reading assignment
Oct 3 Tue
  • Build-your-own hydrophone (for Oct 12)
  • Enroll in class and homework factory (see CC during class)
  • Reading assignment
Oct 5 Thu
  • Hydrophone testing (with recording devices)
  • Sign up for Oct 12 whale recording trip
  • Sonification demos, HW1 ideas
  • In-class webchuck lab
Oct 10 Tue
  • Special lecture, John Chowning
  • performance of John Chowning's "Turenas"
  • Reading assignments
Oct 12 WHALE trip Thu
  • meet bus at FloMo (9:30am) -- bring $10 (if poss.)
  • meet dockside (1pm)
  • boat leaves (1:30pm)
  • return to campus (ca. 7pm)
Oct 17 Tue
  • In-class lab -- FM demos
  • Chuck's shredular
  • Procedural audio programming: scheduling "clips"
  • Reading and listening assignments
Oct 19 Thu
  • Special lecture, Luna
  • Reading assignment
Oct 24 Tue
  • build an air mic
  • I am Sitting in a Room (Alvin Lucier)
DUE HW #2
OUT HW #3
Oct 26 Thu
  • Special lecture, Celeste
Oct 31 Tue
  • Strings, tubes and excitations
  • Recursion in non-linear dynamical systems: algorithmic composition and physical modeling
  • Tuning Meditation (Pauline Oliveros)
Nov 2 Thu
  • Delay and digital filters
  • Convolution and spatialization
  • Webchuck examples, comb filter, reverb code demos
  • Reading assignment
Nov 7 Tue
  • no class
Nov 9 Thu
    Nov 14 Tue
    • Special lecture, Hongchan Choi (Google, CCRMA) Non-linear effects, dynamics range processing and waveshaping [in person]
    • gestural
    📖   Code Examples
    📖   Codelab Deck
    DUE HW #4
    OUT HW #5
    Nov 16 Thu
    • Final project individual meetings
    Nov 21 Tue
    • no class
    Nov 23 Thu
    • no class
    Nov 28 Tue
    • Special lecture, Nick
    • Special lecture, Nilam Ram, Joey Baron
    DUE HW #5
    Nov 30 Thu
    • Project Presentations I
    Dec 5 Tue
    • Project Presentations II
    Dec 7 Thu
    • Project Presentations III
    Dec 12 3:30-6:30pm Tue
    • Project Presentations IV & V