Schedule: Fall 2024

Sep 23 Mon

Course intro
How long is 100msec?
In-class webchuck lab
Reading assignment

📖 Wifi access at CCRMA

📖 Lab -- Spectrogram, Chrome Music Lab

📖 Lab -- beep goes the browser

📖 Lab -- deeper beeps, webchuck documentation

📖 Lab -- explainer video

📖 Lab -- try this challenge

📖 Reading -- Dobrian (1997) - Digital Audio

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

📖 Lecture -- music visualizations by Mike Repper

📖 Lecture -- guess the source from its display

📖 Lab -- generating sound waves, Ableton Learning Synths

📖 Lab -- imitating Ableton Learning Synths in Chuck

📖 Lab -- explore the IDE Examples (a trove of Chuck scripts)

📖 Lab -- try Examples:GUI:Hello Sine GUI (GUI at bottom)

📖 Faust Lab -- explore Djembe examples

📖 Reading -- Chowning (2011) - The realization of a dream

Sep 30 Mon

Chowning's Voices concert / lecture
Reading assignments on Webchuck

📖 Reading -- Chafe, et al. What would a Webchuck Chuck?

📖 Readings -- links for conference papers (NIME, SMC)

Oct 2 Wed

Build-your-own hydrophone (for Oct 9)
Reading assignment on Electronic Instruments

📖 Lab -- Sasha Leitman on sound in water, transducers, whale vocalizations

📖 Lab -- constructing a hydrophone

📖 Lab -- soldering technique

📖 Reading -- Chafe (2022) - Electronic Instruments

Oct 7 Mon

Final sign up for Oct 9 whale recording trip
Homework factory intro, ssh and scp utilities
Hydrophone testing (with recording devices)
(optional) Reading on CCRMA tech history

📖 Optional reading -- Nelson (2015) - The Sound of Innovation

Oct 9 WHALE trip Wed

meet bus at FloMo (9:15am) -- bring $10 (if poss.)
meet dockside (12:45pm)
boat leaves (1:00pm)
return to campus (ca. 7pm)

>> Oct 10 Thu 6pm -- optional chuck tutorial Ge Wang, classroom

Oct 14 Mon

add / drop deadline has passed (Fri Oct 11)
enroll CCRMA account
performance of John Chowning's "Turenas"
Sonification demos
in-class lab -- webchuck FM, sporking, envelopes
reading assignments

📖 Reading -- Chowning (new) - Guardian article

📖 Sonification demos

📖 IceCoreWalk

📖 (old) Video -- spectra lecture (in case you missed class back on the 25th)

📖 Reading -- Chowning (1973) - FM Synthesis

📖 Reading -- Schottstaedt - An Introduction to FM

📖 Reading -- Cook Chapter 6 - Spectral Modeling and Additive Synthesis

Oct 16 Wed

check homework factory entries exist
Chuck's shredular
in-class webchuck lab
in-class Faust lab (optional breakout) with Chris
Reading assignment

📖 Faust Lab -- explore more examples

📖 Reading -- Cook Chapter 2 - Sampling and Wavetable Synthesis

📖 Reading -- Henke - Twenty Years of FM Synthesis inside Ableton Live

📖 Video -- Smith - FM Spectra Derived and Visualized

📖 Reading -- Smith - FM Spectra Derived and Visualized

7:30pm -- Transitions Concert I

>> Oct 17 Thu 7:30pm -- Transitions Concert II

Oct 21 Mon

Special lecture, Sile O'Modhrain
listening and reading assignments

📖 download whale recordings

📖 Listening -- Bregman and Ahad (1996)

📖 Reading -- Bregman (2005) - Auditory Scene Analysis and the Role of Phenomenology in Experimental Psychology

Oct 23 Wed

Special guests, Gábor Puhalla and Dániel Váczi, Glissonic (bring mouthpieces!)
using Audacity (with whale recordings)
in-class webchuck lab
in-class Faust lab (optional breakout) with Chris
Reading assignment

📖 Software -- Audacity

📖 Reading -- Cook Chapter 3 - Digital Filters

>> Oct 27 Sun Faust Day

Oct 28 Mon

Delay and digital filters
Strings, tubes and excitations
Webchuck examples, comb filter, reverb code demos

📖 Lecture -- digital filters

📖 Lab -- recording webapp with optional ADC input

📖 (old) Video -- digital filter lecture (in case you missed class)

Oct 30 Wed

Special lecture, Drew Allen (Microsoft Research) in-person

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

📖 I am Sitting in a Room (1969)

📖 Tuning Meditation score (1981)

📖 Reading -- On the oscillations of musical instruments (1981)

📖 Lab -- dynamical systems examples

📖 Lab -- Tuning Meditation algorithm (Chris Vega)

📖 (old) Video -- dynamical systems lecture (in case you missed class)

Nov 11 Mon

gestural

📖 Codelab Deck

OUT Final project

Nov 13 Wed

Special lecture, Hongchan Choi (Google, CCRMA)

📖 Sign up for a meeting slot

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, Vilbjørg Broch
Special lecture, Nick Shaheed

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