MUA  3021 - Electronic Music Composition II                                                   Sp. 2004  

Tuesday & Friday 1:35 - 2:50 PM

A continuation of the fall semester course. The focus in the spring semester is on sound synthesis and processing techniques, larger scale works, and collaborations with other artistic media. Macbeth* and Dance Concert** collaborations are encouraged.

Textbook: Computer Music Tutorial by Curtis Roads (CMT)

Manhattanville College/Department of Music/Spring 2004

Dr. Geoff Kidde email: kiddeg@mville.edu Telephone (914) 798 - 2708

Office hours: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 9:30 - 11:30 AM

Office: Room 113 Music Building

1

Tues.     Jan. 20

Review Chapters 1 & 21. MIDI and LPC.

Fri.        Jan. 23

Studio Connections

2

Tues.     Jan. 27

CMT Chap. 2

Fri.        Jan. 30

Programming (Max/MSP and CSound)

3

Tues.     Feb. 3

CMT Chap. 3

Fri.        Feb. 6

No class

4

Tues.     Feb. 10

Max/MSP Digital Sound Synthesis

Fri.        Feb. 13

Creating new sounds projects

5

Tues.     Feb. 17

CMT Chap 4

Fri.        Feb. 20

Sampling and Additive Synthesis

6

Tues.     Feb. 24

CMT Chap. 5

Fri.        Feb. 27

Wavetable, Granular, Subtractive Synthesis

7

Tues.     Mar. 2

Review

Fri.        Mar. 5

MIDTERM EXAM Chapter 1 - 5

8

Tues.     Mar. 16

Working on Projects [*Macbeth 17 - 21]

Fri.        Mar.19

Working on Projects

9

Tues.     Mar. 23

CMT Chap. 12

Fri.        Mar. 26

Pitch and Rhythm Recognition

10

Tues.    Mar. 30

CMT Chap. 6

Fri.       Apr. 2

Modulation Synthesis (FM) [**Dance con. 1-4]

11

Tues.    Apr. 6

CMT Chap. 7

Fri.      Apr. 9

Physical Modeling

12

Tues.   Apr. 13

CMT. Chap. 8

Fri.      Apr. 16

Waveform Segment, Graphic, Stochastic Synth.

13

Tues.   Apr. 20

CMT. Chap. 10

Fri.      Apr. 23

Signal Processing

14

Tues.   Apr. 27

CMT. Chap. 11

Fri.      Apr. 30

Spatialization

Final Exam to be announced.