Schedule: Fall 2024

Sep 23 Mon
  • Course intro
  • How long is 100msec?
  • In-class webchuck lab
  • Reading assignment
Sep 25 Wed
  • frequency domain analysis, spectral displays
  • In-class Chuck lab with Constantin, Nick
  • In-class Faust lab (optional breakout) with Chris
  • Reading assignment for Monday's concert
Sep 30 Mon
  • Chowning's Voices concert / lecture
  • Reading assignments on Webchuck
Oct 2 Wed
  • Build-your-own hydrophone (for Oct 9)
  • Reading assignment on Electronic Instruments
Oct 7 Mon
  • Sign up for Oct 7 whale recording trip
  • Hydrophone testing (with recording devices)
  • Sonification demos
  • (optional) Reading assignment on CCRMA tech
Oct 9 WHALE trip Wed
  • meet bus at FloMo (9:30am) -- bring $10 (if poss.)
  • meet dockside (1pm)
  • boat leaves (1:30pm)
  • return to campus (ca. 7pm)
Oct 14 Mon
  • add / drop deadline has passed (Fri Oct 11)
  • enroll CCRMA account
  • in-class lab -- webchuck FM, sporking, envelopes
  • reading assignments
Oct 16 Wed
  • check homework factory entries exist
  • performance of John Chowning's "Turenas"
  • Chuck's shredular
  • in-class webchuck lab
  • in-class Faust lab (optional breakout) with Chris
  • Reading assignment
Oct 28 Mon
  • Delay and digital filters
  • Strings, tubes and excitations
  • Webchuck examples, comb filter, reverb code demos
Oct 30 Wed
  • Special lecture, Drew Allen (Microsoft Research) in-person
DUE HW #2
OUT HW #3
Nov 4 Mon
  • no class
Nov 6 Wed
  • Convolution and spatialization (cont'd)
  • Non-linear systems, emergent behavior (music, musical instruments and beyond)
  • Recursion in non-linear dynamical systems (everything is a clarinet)
  • I am Sitting in a Room (Alvin Lucier), linear or non-linear?
  • Tuning Meditation (Pauline Oliveros)
  • Reading assignment
Nov 11 Mon
  • gestural
Nov 13 Wed
  • Special lecture, Hongchan Choi (Google, CCRMA)
Nov 18 Mon
  • Final project individual meetings
  • Bring your ideas!
  • We'll be holding 10 min. meetings througout the day
Nov 20 Wed
  • Special lecture, VilbjΓΈrg Broch
  • Special lecture, Nick Shaheed
DUE HW #5
Nov 25 Mon
  • no class
Nov 27 Wed
  • no class
Dec 2 Mon
  • Project Presentations I
Dec 4 Wed
  • Project Presentations II
Dec 9 Mon
  • no class
Dec 11 7:00-10:00pm Wed
  • Project Presentations III