Schedule: Fall 2022

Sep 27 Tue

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

📖 Lab -- beep goes the browser

📖 -- explainer video

📖 -- deeper beep, system explanation

📖 -- try this challenge

📖 Reading -- Dobrian (1997) - Digital Audio

Sep 29 Thu

In-class webchuck lab (cont'd)
Build-your-own hydrophone demo (make one by Tuesday)

📖 Lab -- demo me again

📖 -- trove of basic examples (for live code)

📖 -- making shreds visible

📖 Lab -- constructing a hydrophone

📖 -- soldering technique

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

📖 IceCoreWalk

📖 Lab -- sonification example (hw1)

📖 -- spork

📖 -- spork twice

📖 Reading -- Chafe (2022) - Electronic Instruments

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

📖 Reading -- Chowning (2011) - Turenas - the realization of a dream

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

📖 Reading -- Chowning (1973) - FM Synthesis

📖 Reading -- Schottstaedt - An Introduction to FM

Oct 13 Thu

In-class lab -- FM demos, HW1 ideas
Reading assignments

📖 Lab -- webchuck FM demo

📖 Lab -- webchuck FM patches

📖 Lab -- creating a custom FM synth as a chuck class

📖 Lab -- distort me into different timbres! (complex FM with ADSR envelopes, )

📖 Reading -- Cook Chapter 5 - The Fourier Transform

📖 Reading -- Smith (2002) - Spectral Modeling Synthesis

📖 Reading -- Smith (2002) - Additive Synthesis

Oct 18 Tue

In-class webchuck lab
Chuck's shredular
Procedural audio programming: scheduling "clips"
Reading and listening assignments

📖 Lab -- auditory streaming example (hw2)

📖 Lab -- making shreds visible (there will be more examples)

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

📖 Reading -- Bregman and Ahad (1996) CD sound examples

Oct 20 Thu

build an air mic
Reading assignments

📖 mic schematics (all parts in MaxLab)

📖 mic schematics (cont'd)

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

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)

📖 Lab -- adc & recording

📖 Lab -- dynamical systemes examples

📖 Tuning Meditation score (Pauline Oliveros, 2007)

📖 Lab -- Tuning Meditation algorithm (Chris Vega)

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]

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

📖 Reading -- Cook Chapter 3 - Digital Filters

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

Nov 17 Thu

Final project individual meetings

OUT Final project

Nov 22 Tue

no class

Nov 24 Thu

no class

Nov 29 Tue

Special lecture, Nick
Special lecture, Nilam Ram, Joey Baron

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