| Week 1 |
Tuesday September 1 |
Intro To the Course Intro to Digital Audio
Listening Exercises.
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Read for the 3rd: Reader
-"The Fundamental Properties of Microphones" |
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Thursday
September 3
RECORDING |
Microphones,
Formats, Recording Equipment Group 1 GRADS
Listening/Discussion (GRADS)
After Class, 12-130
Intro to Macs and PCs--review
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Read for
the 8th: Reader
-"Advanced Audio Production Techniques" ch.1
"Developing Golden Ears"
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| Week 2 |
Tuesday September 8
RECORDING con't |
Recording Exercises
in class Watch: Guide to Better Audio (39min)
Assignment: Exercise One, Group Project: Recording
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Read for the 10th: -Michel Chion’s ch 2 "The Three Listening Modes."
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Thursday September 10
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Listening Exercises Group 2 GRADS Lead Listening/Discussion
Discuss Chion, -"Advanced Audio Production
Techniques" Ch 2
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Read for the 12th: Reader
-"Advanced Audio Production Techniques" ch.2
"Advanced Listening"
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| Week 3 |
Tuesday September 15 DIGITAL AUDIO |
Assignment DUE:
Exercise One, Group Project: Recording
Project Review
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Read for the 17th --Michel Chion’s ch 1 "Projections of sound on image." |
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Thursday
September 17
SAMPLING |
Introduction
to Digital Audio Kurzweil Sampler 1
Group 1 Lead Listening/Discussion
ASSIGNMENT: Exercise Two, Group Project: Sampling
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No
reading |
| Week 4 |
Tuesday
September 22 TOUR |
Music
Library Tour. |
No
reading |
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Thursday
September 24 DISCUSS |
Listening
and Discussion Session Group 2 Lead Listening/Discussion
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Read for
the 29th Reader
-"Advanced Audio Production Techniques" ch.6
"New Technology" |
| Week 5 |
Tuesday September 29 SAMPLING
Q & A |
Kurzweil Sampler 2
Sampling Q&A
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Read for the 24th: -Michel Chion’s ch 3 "lines and points." |
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Thursday October 1 PROJECT
REVIEW |
ASSIGNMENT DUE:
Exercise Two, Group Project: Sampling Group 3
Lead Listening/Discussion
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Read for the 6th:
Reader
-"Danger: High clearance"
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| Week 6 |
Tuesday October 6 DIGITIZE |
Sampling Assignments
Review continued Intro To Digitizing
Discussion on Sampling Refining Techniques
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No reading |
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Thursday October 8 PROTOOLS
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The Computer System ProTools 1
Group 4 Lead Listening/Discussion
QUIZ ONE
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Read for the 13th: Reader
Sound with Vision, by EGM Alkin, Crane, Russak, &
Company, Inc. NY: 1973.
--Chapter 1: "Importance of Sound and its
Relationship to Vision."
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| Week 7 |
Tuesday October 13 Digitizing/Mixing
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ProTools 2 ASSIGNMENT: Exercise Three, Individual Project
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Read for the 15th:
-Michel Chion’s ch 5 "The Real and the
Rendered."
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Thursday October 15 MIDI |
Intro to midi Grads lead Listening analysis |
Read for the 20th:
Reader
-"Advanced Audio Production Techniques" ch.5
"shaping audio"
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| Week 8 |
Tuesday
October 20 MIDI & SEQUENCING |
potential
visitor ASSIGNMENT: DUE Exercise Three,
Individual Project
Project Review
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Read for
the 22nd: -Michel Chion’s ch 4 "The
Audiovisual Scene." |
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Thursday October 22 |
Equalization Lecture,
finish reviews Group 1 Lead Listening/Discussion
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No reading |
| Week 9 |
Tuesday October 27 |
Introduction to MIDI
concepts. Discuss copyright
Assign Exercise 4: Group Moving Image |
Read for the 29th: Reader
-"Live" and Recorded: MIDI Sequencing, the Home
Studio, and Copyright." Ch 9, Any Sound You Can Imagine. Paul Theberge, 1997;Read for
the 29th:
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Thursday
October 29 |
Sequencing
with Keyboard--in class exercises Group 2 Lead
Listening/Discussion
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No
reading
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| Week 10 |
Tuesday
November 3
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Mixing
midi and digitized audio |
Read for
the 5th: -Michel Chion’s ch 6
"Phantom Audio Vision."
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Thursday November 5
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DUE: Exercise
4: Review in class. Group 3 Lead
Listening/Discussion
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Have a speaker here?? No reading |
| Week 11 |
Tuesday November 10
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Finish Review of
Exercise 4 Graduate Student Presentation
QUIZ TWO
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Read for the 12th Reader
-"This is Not a Story My People Tell: Musical Time and
Space According to Laurie Anderson"
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Thursday November 12 |
Graduate Student
Presentation Discuss Final Project
Review Quiz
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No reading |
| Week 12 |
Tuesday November 17 |
WORK DAY |
Read for the 19th: Reader
--"Murmur" by Kenneth Gaburo
--"Some Practical Aesthetic Problems of Electronic Music
Composition," by David Keane
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Thursday November 19 |
Group 4 Lead
Listening/Discussion (USE MUSIC LIBRARY)
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No reading
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| Week 13 |
Tuesday November 24 Mid Project
CHECKPOINT |
INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS
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Read for the 1st Reader
--"Electronic Music: Art Beyond Technology" by Daria
Semegen
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Thursday November 26 |
Fall Recess |
Don’t forget
Reading!!!
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| Week 14 |
Tuesday December 1 |
Group Surprise.
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Thursday December 3
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Individual Work
Sessions With the Instructor
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No Reading |
| Week 15 |
Tuesday December 8
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Project Viewing Graduate Students
Undergrads 1-4 |
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Thursday December 10 |
Last day of Class. Project Viewing
Undergrads 5-13
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Last day of Class. |
| Week 16 |
Tuesday Dec 15 –
Fri Dec 20 |
Finals week
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Finals week |
