Outline
Fall 2009 – MUSI 403 Outline ↓↑
1 – August 24, 26, 28 – The sonic environment – listening journal assignment
Reading: Holmes – Chapters 1,2,3
2 – August 31
September 2, 4 – Capturing the environment
Reading: Holmes – Chapters 5 & 7
3 – September (Labor day) 9, 11 – In class critiques of Projects 1 & 2
4 – September 14, 16, 18 – Organizing sound 1 – Ideas on construction – Varese – Gobeil – Daoust – Xenakis – Assign Project 3
Reading: Holmes – Chapter 14
5 – September 21, 23, 25 – Project 3 due on Monday – Guest lecture on Friday with Hsiao-Lan Wang – Assign project 4.1 – Peak & DSP – Gesture
Reading: Handout
6 – September 28, 30 – Project 4.1 due Monday – Working in Logic – Listening
October 2
Reading: Holmes – Chapters 12 & 13
7 – October 5, 7, 9 – Project 4.2 due Wednesday
8 – October 14, 16 – Other approaches – audio sculpt – sound hack – spear – Assign project 5
Reading – Wishart – On Sonic Art (excerpt)
9 – October 19, 21, 23 – More Logic – other aesthetics – synthesis
10 – October 26, 28, 30 – Project 5 due on Wednesday.
11 – November 2, 4, 6 – Cumulative project assigned, project 6.
12 – November 9, 11, 13 – Wednesday and Friday: individual meetings to discuss project 6
13 – November 16, 18, 20 – MIDI and using controllers
14 – November 23, 25 – Diffusion exercises
Reading: Annette Vande Gorne
15 – November 30
December 2, 4 – Project six due Wednesday.
Spring 2009 – MUSI 404 Outline ↓↑
MUSI 404: Topics Outline
[ January ]
1 MWF – Working in the Studio/Review/Introduction to Max/MSP/Jitter
2 MWF – Continued intro to Max/MSP/Jitter
3 M(Mt. Luther King) WF – Synthesis 1: FM Synthesis – Project 1 assigned
4 MWF – Synthesis 2: Waveshaping
[ February ]
5 MWF – Synthesis 3: Subtractive
6 MWF – Synthesis 4: Analysis-Based & Granular
7 MWF – Project 1
8 MWF – Video 1: Aesthetics, Technical elements, & Final Cut
[ March ]
9 (Spring Break)
10 MWF – Video 2: Jitter – Concert Project proposals due
11 MWF – Video 2: More Jitter & Final cut
12 MWF – Concert Project sessions
13 MW – Concert Project sessions (spring recess Tr-F)
[ April ]
14 MWF – Concert, Wednesday April 8th!
15 MW F – Final tweaking, discussion, & party
Last day of Classes April 17
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