Sound and Music Interaction 2015

Description

This course gives opportunity to students to learn how to process and organise sounds in digital environment throughout alternative sonic experimentation strategies for interactive music performances/installations/compositions. It also introduces digitising and fundamentals of digital audio with very practical and everyday branch of acoustics. Within the digital sound synthesis concept, the course explores several related topics; computer music basics (sampling and additive synthesis, multiple wave table, granular synthesis, subtractive synthesis), mapping strategies, the spatial sound and music, digital instrument design. Sound and Music Interaction course is a project-based course. At the end of the course, students will submit and present their projects.
Keywords:musical interaction, sound design, sonic interaction, computer music, experimental music, data processing, interactive music, live electronics, spatial sound and music, organising sounds, experimental interaction.

Final Project

Sound and Music Interaction course is a project-based course. At the end of the course, students will submit and present their projects.

Grading

  • 20% class participation
  • 10% assignments
  • 70% final project

Schedule:

Week 1

  • 07.04.2015 9:00 – 12:00 – Introduction
    • Course Overview
    • Basic Principles of Sound
    • Fundamentals of Digital Audio
    • hands on exercises – scratch, sampling

  • 08.04.2015 9:00 – 12:00 – Synthesis
    • hands on exercises – Waveshaping, modulation, oscillator, detune-chorus, simple_additive, sample-looping, fm, ample-fm-two, ringmod, delay

  • 09.04.2015 9:00 – 12:00 – Spectral Manipulation- FFT Abstractions
    • hands on exercises – FFT, ringmodanalysis, convolution, phase-vocoder

  • 10.04.2015 9:00 – 12:00 – Grains and Particles
    • hands on exercises – granular ( play – repitch – correlations)
    • Project Work and Tutoring

Week 2

  • 17.04.2015 9:00 – 12:00 – Project Work and Tutoring

    Week 3

    • 21.04.2015 9:00 – 13:00 – Project Work and Tutoring
    • 22.04.2015 9:00 – 13:00 – Project Work and Tutoring
    • 23.04.2015 9:00 – 13:00 – Project Work and Tutoring
    • 24.04.2015 9:00 – 13:00 – Final project presentations

    Recommended Course Books

    • The Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music by Miller Puckette
    • Designing Sound by Andy Farnell
    • The Computer Music Tutorial by Curtis Roads
    • Machine Musicianship by Robert Rowe
    • Handmade Electronic Music: The art of Hardware Hacking
      by Nicolas Collins