Author: Keith Kothman

Due Thursday, June 4, at beginning of class. overview Compose a short work (75 – 90 seconds, 1’15 – 1’30) utilizing musique concrète techniques. You will process audio as before in Audacity and Audition, and assemble in Logic Pro X, with the addition of using a virtual sampler (EXS24) to further process audio samples. You are encouraged…

Two previous posts will help you get started: (sonicArts) midi recording in logic pro x (sonicArts) some basic midi editing in logic pro x

Working with Logic Pro X requires some attention to program setup (preferences) and how to use audio within tracks. Knowing some keyboard shortcuts also helps. The very first thing you should do after launching Logic Pro X is to turn on Show Advanced Tools (Logic Pro X > Preferences > Advanced Tools…) and turn on Show Advanced…

Due Friday, May 22 Create listening guides for the following pieces: Gyorgy Ligeti, Artikulation Edgard Varese, Poeme Electronique and two of the following: James Tenney, Collage #1: Blue Suede Pierre Henry, Variations on a Door and Sigh (excerpt) Richard Karpen, Mass Ake Parmerud, Cut 1, 2, 3 Progress You should download the entire set of works, available here. The Ligeti, Varese,…

Instead of memorizing works in a short session, I’d rather you engage a smaller number of pieces in more depth. To that end I want you to make a listening guide for assigned pieces. Instructions for making a listening guide can be found in this previous post.

Starting your first musique concrete project usually requires a new way of thinking about music and working with sound in general. To help you organize your work in the early stages, I’m linking to some previous posts that summarize some key points, tools, and procedures. musique concrete: starting your piece 1 musique concrete: starting your piece…

Due Thursday, May 21, at beginning of class. overview Compose a short work (45 – 60 seconds) utilizing musique concrète techniques. You will process your sounds in Audacity and/or Audition, and assemble/compose them in Logic Pro X. You should use three to five original sound sources. You will edit and process your sounds using the…

You can download Audacity, a free audio editor for Mac and Windows, at SourceForge.

From teachingmusic: analog recording, digital recording, digital sampling theory From Hass: chapter 5: digital audio

The soundwalk assignment is posted. Please read the following by Wednesday: from teachingmusic properties of audio from Jeffrey Hass’s projects in electronic music online text chapter 1, sections 1, 2, 4, and 5