Schedule: Fall 2022

Sep 27 Tue
  • Course intro
  • CCRMA accounts
  • How long is 100msec?
  • In-class webchuck lab
  • Reading assignment
Sep 29 Thu
  • In-class webchuck lab (cont'd)
  • Build-your-own hydrophone demo (make one by Tuesday)
Oct 4 Tue
  • Special Guest, Roberto Morales
  • Hydrophone testing (with recording devices)
  • Sonification demos
  • In-class webchuck lab
  • Enroll in class and homework factory (see CC)
  • Sign up for Thursday whale recording trip
  • Reading assignment
Oct 6 WHALE trip Thu
  • meet bus at FloMo (9am) -- bring $5 (if poss.)
  • meet dockside (12:45pm)
  • boat leaves (1:15pm)
  • return to campus (ca. 7pm)
Oct 11 Tue
  • Special lecture, John Chowning
  • performance of John Chowning's "Turenas"
  • Reading assignments
Oct 18 Tue
  • In-class webchuck lab
  • Chuck's shredular
  • Procedural audio programming: scheduling "clips"
  • Reading and listening assignments
Oct 20 Thu
  • build an air mic
  • Reading assignments
Oct 25 Tue
  • In-class webchuck lab
  • Strings, tubes and excitations
  • Recursion in non-linear dynamical systems: algorithmic composition and physical modeling
  • I am Sitting in a Room (Alvin Lucier)
  • Tuning Meditation (Pauline Oliveros)
Oct 27 Thu
  • Special lecture, Marise
  • scouting for sounds on campus
Nov 1 Tue
  • Special lecture, Drew Allen (Microsoft Research) [online -- zoom is linked in Canvas]
DUE HW #3
OUT HW #4
Nov 3 Thu
  • NOTE! [online -- zoom is linked in Canvas]
  • Delay and digital filters
  • Convolution and spatialization
  • Webchuck examples, comb filter, reverb code demos
  • Readings review (recap of key topics relevant to CCRMA PhD quals)
  • Reading assignment
Nov 8 Tue
  • no class
Nov 10 Thu
  • Special lecture, Cobi van Tonder [online -- zoom is linked in Canvas]
Nov 15 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 17 Thu
  • Final project individual meetings
Nov 22 Tue
  • no class
Nov 24 Thu
  • no class
Nov 29 Tue
  • Special lecture, Nick
  • Special lecture, Nilam Ram, Joey Baron
DUE HW #5
Dec 1 Thu
  • Project Presentations I
Dec 6 Tue
  • Project Presentations II
Dec 8 Thu
  • Project Presentations III
Dec 13 3:30-6:30pm Tue
  • Project Presentations IV & V