Fall 2017

MUSC 336 | E-book | Biblio | Sweetwater Glossary

Learning: Max | MIDI | MSP | Notation | Reason | History | Audacity

C O U R S E   M O D U L E S
1.	Course & Studio Introduction
2.	Interactive Music Programming & MIDI
3.	DSP & Synthesis
4.	Notation
5.	Sequencing, Sampling & Mixing
	Sound Editing & Transformation

News

Thanks for a great semester!

Quotable

	All sound, even continous musical variation, is conceived as an assemblage of a large number of elementary sounds adequately disposed in time. In the attack, body, and decline of a complex sound, thousands of pure sounds appear in a more or less short interval of time delta t.
	— Iannis Xenakis

Textbook (Open Access)

Phil Burk, Larry Polansky, Douglas Repetto, Mary Roberts and Dan Rockmore.
Music and Computers:  A Theoretical and Historical Approach, 2011 Archival Version. {E-book}

Chapter Overviews: Ch. 1 (pdf); Ch. 2 (pdf); Ch. 3 (pdf); Ch. 4 (pdf); Ch. 5 (pdf)

Course Documents

1. Fall 2017 Syllabus (pdf)
   • Course Overview
   • Daily Schedule
2. Links for Students
3. Computer Music Studio B
   • Policies (pdf)
   • Log Sheet (pdf)
   • iCal Schedule (iCal)
   • Music Library: Hours of Operation

Projects

1. Max: Max Programming & MIDI – Due Oct. 6 (pdf)
2. MSP: DSP & Synthesis – Due Mon., Oct. 30
   
   • Part A: DSP w/ MSP (pdf)
   • Part B: Synthesis with MSP (pdf)
3. Reason 1: Redrum (pdf) – Due Fri., Nov. 17
4. Reason 2: Sequencing – Wed., Dec. 6 & Fri., Dec. 8 (pdf)
5. Audacity: Sound Editing & Transformation – Due Fri., Dec. 15 (pdf)
   
   Get sounds at: FreeSFX, Freesound, Archive.org, etc.

Overview Handouts

1. Interactive Music Programming
• Max Programming (pdf)
• MIDI (pdf)
2. DSP & Synthesis
• MSP Basics (pdf)
  
• How Digital Audio Works (pdf)
• Digital Audio Theory
3. Notation
4. Sequencing, Sampling & Mixing
• Reason (pdf)
5. The History of Electronic Music
6. Sound Editing & Transformation
• Audacity (pdf)
7. Special Topics
   • MediaCollege.com, Audio Tutorials
   • SuperCollider
   • Granular Synthesis w/ MacPOD/WinPOD
     

Learning

1. Max
   
2. MSP
3. Notation
4. Reason
5. The History of Electronic Music
6. Audacity

Magazines & Journals

1. Computer Music Journal
2. Computer Music Magazine
3. Create Digital Music
4. Electronic Musician
5. Keyboard Magazine
6. Leonardo Music Journal
7. MusicRadar
8. MusicTech
9. Sound on Sound
10. Sweetwater InSync
11. Synthtopia

Cloud Storage & Data Compression

1. Dropbox
2. Zip file (format)

Online Distribution

1. Bandcamp
2. SoundCloud

What's Next?

1. MUSC 540 Projects in Computer Music
2. Computer Music Creative Activity & Research

Bibliography

MUSC 336 Bibliography

Burk, Phil, Larry Polansky, Douglas Repetto, Mary Roberts and Dan Rockmore. 2011. Music and Computers:
      A Theoretical and Historical Approach, Archival Version. Hannover, NH. {E-book}

Chadabe, Joel. 2000. "A Brief History of Electronic Music: The Electronic Century." Electronic Musician (February-May, 2000). {Electronic Musician}

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