Office Hours: by appointment only
Link to Sound Primer PDF
Link to 618 How To
Schedule
Week 1 (Sept 3) - Introduction
• In class listening: Stockhausen - Kontakte; & Jlin - Black Origami
Week 2 (Sept 10) - Basic Acoustics + Timbre + Combining Waves
Harmonic Series Primer
Link to Waves Animations
Link to Phase Animation
Link to Loaded String Animation
Link to Violin String Slow Motion
Link to Plate Modes of Vibration
Week 3 (Sept 17) - Intro to Logic and Editing in Logic Part 1
Link to Tape editing demonstration
In class listening: Wendy Carlos - Switched on Bach - Sinfonia to Cantata No.29
Week 4 (Sept 24) - Assignment #1 Due (Edited Bach) + Basic MIDI + Digitizing Sound
• Link to Audio Clipping PDF
Week 5 (Oct 1) - EQ + Reverb and Space
Week 6 (Oct 8) - Overview of Logic's Software Instruments + Synthesis (ES2) + quantizing and Loops
Week 7 (Oct 15) - Using Sends + Creating beats and drops.
***Complete Parts 1 and 2 of Assignment 2*** (see below)
Week 8 (Oct 22) - Assignment #2 Due (Mini EDM) - PARTS 1, 2, and 3
Examples, for inspiration
• Drexciya - The Quest (part 1) 1997
• Sully - 5ives
• YouTube EDM mix
Week 9 (Nov Oct 29) - Recording with portable recorders + Listening
Zoom H4n recorder setup
• In class listening: Halim El-Dabh (1921-2017), Leiyla and the Poet (1959); Robert Normandeau (b.1955) - Rumeurs (place de Ransbeck) (1987); Hildegard Westerkamp (b.1946), At the Edge of Wilderness (2000)
Week 10 (Nov 5) - DSP (Filters, Delay, Chorus, Flanger, Ring Modulation, Distortion) + Listening
• Required Listening: Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) – Bye Bye Butterfly (1965); Yvette Janine Jackson – Destination Freedom (2021); Paul Lansky Notjustmoreidlechatter (1988)
Week 11 (Nov 12) - Assignment #3 Due (Mini Concrete composition)
Week 12 (Nov 19) - Theory + Listening Test; Surround + Localization + live diffusion
Surround How-To in Logic
Off Week (Nov 26) - NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)
Week 13 (Dec 3) - NO CLASS: INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS
Week 14 Sunday, December 14th - CLASS CONCERT of FINAL PROJECTS -
(10am - final deadline to move your project to the 618 computer)
MILLER HALL - 7:30pm (dress in the afternoon)
Please note that I will ask you to say the title of your piece out loud before you play it (there will be no printed program).
Sunday 12/14 Schedule
12:00 Load in and setup (David only)
Dress:
1:40 Cameron
1:51 Vincent
2:02 Kevin
2:13 Noah
2:24 Gabriel
2:35 Benjamin
2:46 Samuel
2:57 Eli
3:08 Yuqing
3:19 Ealaph
3:30 Jacob
3:41 Eugenio
3:52 Julian
4:03 Holden
4:14 Leah
4:25 Jen
4:36 Sebastian
4:47 William
5:00 Break
6:00 Reset
7:00 House opens
7:30 Concert
William
Vincent
Kevin
Noah
Gabriel
Benjamin
Samuel
Eli
Yuqing
Ealaph
Jacob
Eugenio
Julian
Holden
Leah
Jen
Sebastian
Cameron
9:30 Strike (David and others tbd)