Music 220C

Overview

This course is an opportunity for students to pursue an independent research project in computer music. Students regularly present their research and project progress in weekly seminar-style class meetings. In addition, projects in progress are documented on the web.

This is a 4-unit course. It can be taken for 2 or 3 units to accommodate grad students, but everyone is expected to work at the 4-unit level.

Time & Place

Tuesday and Thursday
4:30pm-5:30pm PDT in the *virtual* CCRMA Classroom (Canvas-hosted Zoom!)

Teaching Staff

Instructor

Chris Chafe (cc@ccrma.Stanford.EDU)

Julius O Smith (jos@ccrma.Stanford.EDU)

Teaching Assistant

Scott Oshiro (soshiro@ccrma.stanford.edu)

Requirements

Students can choose between a research project, a musical/artistic project or a combination of both. Projects require a substantial amount of documentation, and will be presented in the form of a website. The deliverables are:

• Weekly progress reports: in-class critiques and documentation, in a form of progress report logs (blogs)
• A final website with all the detailed descriptions, progress report logs, final presentation / demo / performance / video, and any data needed to reproduce your results (where applicable) (tips on creating research websites)

Grading

The grading criteria will be based on:

• Creativity: is it a novel idea or creative solution to a problem?
• Execution: how well crafted is the project?
• Presentation: are your deliverables well presented and explained?
• Own-goal achievements: did you achieve your own goals that you set out for the project?