Upcoming Class Sessions

Computer Audio and Music Programming
Music 147 / ICS 180 / ECE 195 / Music 215 / ACE 277

University of California, Irvine
Winter Quarter 2006


January 9: Introduction. Definitions of sound, music, and noise.

January 11: How digital audio works. Basics of writing an audio program in Max/MSP.

January 16: Holiday. No class meeting.

January 18: Wavetables and control functions in Max/MSP.

January 23: Commercial audio/music software.

January 25: Musical scales, tuning, and interference; additive synthesis.

January 30: Wavetable synthesis, additive synthesis, sampling synthesis.

February 1: Amplitude modulation, frequency modulation.

February 6: The MIDI protocol, MIDI files, mapping MIDI to synthesis and effects.

February 8: Waveshaping (distortion) synthesis. Midterm review.

February 13: Midterm exam. Project planning for remainder of quarter.

February 15: Guest lecturers: E. Michael Richards, David Kim-Boyle, William Kleinsasser.

February 20: Holiday. No class meeting.

February 22: Panning, spatialization, and reverberation.

February 27: Filters and subtractive synthesis.

March 1: I/O streams, buffers, callback functions, audio file formats, PortAudio. C and Java programming of basic audio functionality.

March 6: Windowing and convolution. Fourier analysis and resynthesis techniques.

March 8: Granular synthesis; compression, ducking, gating, limiting.

March 13: Final review.

March 15: Final written exam. Review of final project presentations.

March 22: 1:30-3:30 pm, Final project presentations.


This page was last modified on February 8, 2006.
Christopher Dobrian
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