CSC354: Spring, 2009, Syllabus

Wednesday and Friday, 1:10 - 2:30, Burton B17

Lecture	Date	Reading	Lecture Topics
1	28-Jan, Wednesday	Roads Ch1 Frequency of notes of scale time and frequency domain (William Robinson)	Overview, history, digital audio, listening, Csound example, Pure Data Example Pauline Oliveros
2	30-Jan, Friday Hw1 assigned (due 2/4)	Roads:ix-xviii (Foreword: New Music and Science); Roads Ch1,Ch3, toots tutorial Also read Roads ch2 if you need to brush up on computer programming concepts. Csound manual	Digital Audio Sound Synthesis Lab1 csound oscillation, amplitude envelopes, vibrato, etc. Csound f Statement Csound i Statement Csound linen statement Csound linseg statement Csound GEN 10
3	4-Feb Wednesday Focus on icon diagrams of synthesis	Roads:ix-xviii; Roads Ch1,Ch3 toots tutorial Also read Roads ch2 if you need to brush up on computer programming concepts. Assignment>Read these chapters.	Sampling and Additive Synthesis, Wavetable Synthesis and Filters Listening to Hw1 exercises.
4	6-Feb, Friday Hw2 assigned (due 2/13)	Roads Ch4 pages 134-156, Ch5 pp. 159-167, (wavetable synthesis) Roads: Ch17 785-802 (music languages)	Finish discussing toots.
4	11-Feb, Wednesday	Roads Ch 3, 4	Discuss reading, Finish up hw1 discussion Mellotron Mellotron Demo video History of the Moody Blues includes Mellotron (click link at left after reaching this page) King Crimson 'Epitaph' uses Mellotron (Click on link at left after reaching this page) Max Pinder of the Moody Blues playing mellotron for documentary (click link on left after reaching this page) Peter Frampton, Show Me the Way popularized phase vocoder (PV). Click on Audio, then Show Me the Way This is merely for fun: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band movie with Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees
5	13-Feb, Friday No new homework this week. Work on hw2 more if desired. Go to the helpful links page to download your own version of pd.	Roads: Ch5 pp. 159-167, (wavetable synthesis) Roads: Ch17 785-802 (music languages)	Discuss reading assignments. Listening to Hw2,
6	18-Feb, Wednesday	Rally Day	No Class
7	20-Feb, Friday Hw3 assigned (due 2/27)	Matteo Milani's interview of James A. Moorer, an internationally-known figure in digital audio and computer music. (Between 1977 and 1979, he was a researcher and the Scientific Advisor to IRCAM in Paris. In the mid-seventies he was Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1975. Between 1980 and 1987, while Vice-President of Research and Development at Lucasfilm's The Droid Works, he designed the Audio Signal Processor (later renamed SoundDroid).) The interview is available here Pure Data Supplemental pure data manual Roads: ch 5 159-167 Roads: Ch17 785-802 (music languages)	More Pure Data Lab2 Pure Data (pd) Right click and save lab2Judy.pd to see the soundfile write with delay for flushing. Pure Data Tutorial by Gary P. Scavone at McGill
8	25-Feb, Wednesday	Roads: ch 15 Performance Software includes some MIDI Roads: Ch21 MIDI, etc. and supplemental	Finish Listening to Hw2 Debugging Hw3
9	27-Feb, Friday	fun email Supplemental Handouts	More listening to Hw3
11	4-Mar, Wednesday Hw4 part 1 due 4-Mar Pure Data Info: User's site	0) Scales Tutorial 1) Intervals, scales, circles of fifths 2) Chords 3) Jazz Chords 4) Olivier Messiaen and the Art of Organ registration 5) Prime Melodies (and chords) 6) The creation of musical scales from a mathematic and acoustic point of view 7) Chord/Scale relationships Supplemental Handouts	Lab4 in class SimpleSynth in case you are using pd on a mac midiNotes1.pd first pd example midiNotes2.pd second pd example Excellent MIDI tutorial, MusiNums Mozart's Musikalisches W\|rfelspiel (i.e. Mozart with Dice)
12	6-Mar, Friday Long class today to offset no class on Mar 13 Hw4, part 2, due Mar 11.	Chapter 19 Roads: Ch18 Roads: 857-865 Roads: 868--889 Roads: 889-893 Composition Using Pentatonic Scales (Chua)	Listening to Hw4, part 1 Automata and their application to composition, Piano Keyboard pic Stuff from class MIDI.doc tiny intro to MIDI chords.pd patch from class hw3Max.pd Max's hw3 that we worked on in class. Lab5
13	11-Mar, Wednesday	Supplemental Handouts	Listening to Hw4 qlistExample.pd Just for information and ideas: ScalesAndIntervals.doc pd project with lots of ideas Review Markov Processes, finite automata, and state-based algorithms for music generation.
14	13-Mar No Class today
	18-Mar, Wednesday		Spring Break!
	20-Mar, Friday		Spring Break!
15	25-Mar, Wednesday Hw6 assigned (due 3/27)	Finite Automata Grammars Chaos equation History of Algorithmic Composition Systems, Formal Grammars Grammatical Models of Music Links: Introduction to Chaos Theory	pd examples: chaos.pd grammar.pd MelodyAutomaton.pd
16	27-Mar hw7 assigned	Supplemental Materials Belkin article - A Practical Guide to Musical Composition pdf version of Belkin article To listen to works referred to in Belkin article: First Composers web site with midi Second Composers web site with midi On-line music dictionary	Listening to hw6 >
17	1-April, Wednesday Lab7/hw8, due Apr 3	Supplemental Materials 30secondsChristine.pd	lab7=hw8, due Apr 3 lab7.pd
18	3-Apr, Friday	supplemental materials: Cantible: A Rule-Based System for Composing Melody - Thomas et al. 1989 Cybernetic Composer - Ames and Domino 1991	Bill Alves computer music videos Dannenberg/CMU examples Rhythm listening to hw8 part 1
19	8-Apr, Wednesday	Supplemental Materials The Troggs Sing Wild Thing in 1966 Wild Thing chords Chords - What they are	Discuss Cybernetic Composer Listen to HW8
20	10-Apr, Friday final project timeline pd patches	Supplemental Materials	Open Sound Control (OSC) pdf paper Pure Data - (PD)
21	15-Apr, Wednesday Hw9 assigned (due 4/22)	Millen - Cellular automata Cellular Automata: List of PD objects = very useful! Cellular Automata rules lecicon Serialism Discussion of final project Music Composition Ideas	David Cope article handed out. EMI - Experiments in Musical Intelligence EMI on NPR EMI examples
22	17-Apr, Friday NOTE! Class meets in McConnell 103	Supplemental Materials	Using python with pd testpy.py Put this in the same directory as the following python patch pythontester.pd This is the patch. Make sure you are using pd extended A Language for Interactive Audio Applications, by Roger Dannenberg.
23	22-Apr, Wednesday	End of smester timeline	Second paper on Genetic Algorithms (Spector GenBebop Beethoven EMI example (mp3) Chopin Mazurka EMI example (mp3) Playing The Game from the book Virtual Music
24	24-Apr, Friday	Thomas Charveria: Interactive Installation/Tintin Joe Paradiso, interactive surfaces/Media Lab lemur's Eric Singer, gesture instruments Todd Winkler Installations/Brown	OSC and Sound Effects for Games Creating Footstep Sounds for Games using pd Paper on Genetic Algorithms: Biles GenJam Gary Lee Nelson, fractals, etc. Flavors Band - Fry Accompaniment Systems: Raphael, Thom, Dannenberg
25	29-Apr, Wednesday	Genjam paper discussion	Student Presentations
26	1-May, Friday		"student recital" with CS Dept invited. 12-1 in McConnell 103