Comp342  Computer Music
LECTURER: Prof. Andrew Horner  Room: 3549   Phone: 2358-6998   Email:
TAs:  Lee Chung (Chung Web)         Chau Chuck Jee (Jee Web)
COURSE WEBPAGE: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~horner/comp342
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The techniques for synthesizing music in software synthesis, soundcards, hardware synthesizers, and mobile phones. Topics include: music representation, music theory, musical acoustics, spectral analysis, sound synthesis, sound modification techniques and effects, MIDI, music information retrieval, musical instrument recognition, music on mobile phones. No previous musical background required.
LECTURES: Tue and Thu 10:30 - 11:50   (Room 2302)
LABS:  1A: Tue 19:00 - 19:50     1B: Mon 09:30 - 10:20         (CS Lab4 -- Room 4210)
COURSE SCHEDULE:
Week Date Topics/Notes/Assignments
1 2 Feb 10
4 Feb 10
 Introduction, 
2   9 Feb 10
11 Feb 10
 Musical Acoustics, Waveforms, Csound1, 
3 18 Feb 10

 		Spectral Analysis, Additive Synthesis, Csound2,
4 23 Feb 10
25 Feb 10
 Rhythm, Amplitude, Csound3, [Lab 1]
5  2 Mar 10
 4 Mar 10
 Pitch, Wavetable Synthesis, [Lab 2]
6   9 Mar 10
11 Mar 10
 Csound4, Csound5, FM Synthesis1, FM2, [Lab 3]
7 16 Mar 10
18 Mar 10
 FM3, FM4,  Modeling Voices1, [Lab 4]
8 23 Mar 10
25 Mar 10 		Effects, Filters, Comb Filters, [Lab 5]
9 30 Mar 10
 8 April 10 		All-Pass Filters, Reverb, [Lab 6]
10
13 April 10
15 April 10
 Sampling, [Lab 7]
Review (old midterm),
11 20 April 10
22 April 10

 		Midterm (in-class exam)
Go over midterm, MIDI, Music on Mobile Phones,
Virtual Musical Instruments, Chinese Musical Instruments,
12 27 April 10
29 April 10
 		Presentations
13
 4 May 10
 6 May 10
 Presentations
14 11 May 10
13 May 10
 Presentations
TEXTBOOK: None
REFERENCE BOOKS:
 Computer Music Tutorial by Curtis Roads, MIT Press
 Computer Music by Charles Dodge and Thomas Jerse, Schirmer Books, (2nd Ed)
 Cooking with Csound by Horner & Ayers, A-R Editions
QUESTIONS: I am happy to answer questions in class, after class, or by email. We can also schedule an appointment if you like. 
GRADING SCHEME: 
6-7 Lab assignments (20%), Midterm (50%), Project and Presentation (30%)