Category: Assignments_cm1

The handout describing the final project is in my iLocker account.

The final quiz will during the last week of class. The final listening list is below. Audio can be accessed through the 140 folder in my iLocker account. Michel Chion: Requiem, Dies Irae (1973) John Chowning: Stria (1978) Brian Eno: Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) (1978 – 1982) Paul Lansky: Six Fantasies on a Poem by…

DUE WEDNESDAY, 3/4, VIA EMAIL TO KKOTHMAN Read all of Chapter 1 in E/E, and answer the following questions: How did Gray’s Musical Telegraph create sound vibrations? (What initiated the vibration, and what vibrated? What was the title of the important book on sound that Helmholtz published in 1863, and how did he demonstrate the…

The deadline for the second creative project is being moved back to March 24, giving you over a week after returning from Spring Break to finish the project.

In E/E, read pp. 193 (starting with Signal Processing) through all of p. 198. On p. 198, you only need to understand what the sub-audio control rates produce with Amplitude Modulation and Frequency Modulation. There are no questions associated with the reading assignment, but the reading covers concepts that will be on the next quiz. …

For quiz 2 you will be responsible for composer and title of work. I’m listing the year just for your own reference. Files are available here (with all information included). Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gesang der Junglinge (Song of the Youth), 1955 – 56 Luciano Berio: Thema – Omaggio a Joyce, 1958 Joji Yuasa: Projection Esemplastic for…

UPDATED: Due Friday, 2/20, by midnight. (Saturday, 12:00 AM, after 11:59 PM Friday.) To continue your fun of connecting the world with MIDI, this assignment requires you to connect Digital Performer and Reason, using DP as a control device to send MIDI to Reason, and using DP to route and playback digital audio from Reason.…

Due Tuesday, 2/17: Open a new DP project. Save it as <yourname_MIDI_1> Create an instrument track using the nanosampler as your instrument. Load any sample into the nanosampler. Assign the output of a MIDI track to the nanosampler. Record on that track MIDI note commands for a one-octave C major scale. Assign the audio output…

Due Tuesday, 2/3. Read pp. 41 – 56 (the beginning of Chapter 2) in E/E, and answer the following questions: Name the two French Pierre’s who helped pioneer the construction of music using sound recording tools. The sound object (l’objet sonore) contains what three dimensions? Why is the idea of the sound object is critically…