Comp685B  Computer Music

LECTURER: Prof. Andrew Horner  Room: 3537   Phone: 2358-6998   Email: TA:  Simon Lui      Email Simon      Simon Web

COURSE WEBPAGE: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~horner/comp685b

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 09:00 - 10:20   LTF

COURSE SCHEDULE: Week Date Topic/Notes/Assignments 2 7 Feb 06 9 Feb 06 Introduction, Musical Acoustics 3 14 Feb 06 16 Feb 06 Waveforms, Csound1,Spectral Analysis, Additive Synthesis 4 21 Feb 06 23 Feb 06 Csound2, Rhythm, [Hands-on Assignment 1] 5 28 Feb 06 2 Mar 06 Amplitude, Csound3, Pitch 6 7 Mar 06 9 Mar 06 Wavetable Synthesis, Csound4, Csound5, FM Synthesis1, 7 14 Mar 06 16 Mar 06 FM2, FM3, Modeling Voices1, 8 21 Mar 06 23 Mar 06 [Hands-on Assignment 2], FM4, Effects, Filters, (Voices2, Voices3, Voices4),  9 28 Mar 06 30 Mar 06 Comb Filters, All-Pass Filters, Reverb,  10 4 April 06 6 April 06 Sampling, Review (old midterm) 11 11 April 06 20 April 06 Midterm MIDI, Music on Mobile Phones, 12 25 April 06 27 April 06 Virtual Musical Instruments, Chinese Musical Instruments, Presentations 13 2 May 06 4 May 06 Presentations 14 9 May 06 11 May 06 Presentations 15 16 May 06 Presentations

TEXTBOOK: None REFERENCE BOOKS:  Computer Music Tutorial by Curtis Roads, MIT Press, 1996  Computer Music by Charles Dodge and Thomas Jerse, Schirmer Books, 1997 (2nd Ed)  Cooking with Csound by Horner & Ayers, A-R Editions, 2002

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:  2 Hands-on-experience assignments (20%), Midterm (40%), Project and Presentation (40%)