Category: Assignments_cm1
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(compMus1) Collecting Sounds
You will need sound files for your concrete music project. There are a number of places you can look for free, prerecorded sounds to use. On the Macs you should find an iLife Sound Effects folder. The easiest way to find it is to choose the local hard disk and search for “iLife Effects”. Online,…
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(compMus1) Reading Assignment: Tape Composition
For Tuesday, finish reading chapter 5 in E/E (pp. 123 – 140, available here as chap5.pdf) and answer the following questions: What can tape splicing achieve with regards to the sequence of events on a recording? Name a composer and piece that uses tape degeneration as part of the creative process. How was tape echo…
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(compMus1) Reading: 7 Fundamental Traits…
Read pp. 119 – 123 (beginning of chapter 5) in E/E. An excerpt is in my iLocker account. (7fundTraits.pdf) Know the Seven Fundamental Traits of Electronic Music.
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(compMus1) Create a WordPress Account
Create a WordPress account and comment on this post. If I can’t easily tell who you are by looking at your account/username, then make sure to tell me who you are in your comment text. If you already have a WordPress account, you do not need to create a new one, just comment on this…
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(compMus1) Creative Project 3 – Final Project
I handed this out in class on Thursday. For those of you who took the day off, here’s a copy… Overview (due 5/4, by midnight) Create a work of computer music, displaying your skills and creativity in audio processing, synthesis, and mixing. You may make use of all the sound creation and processing techniques you’ve…
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(compMus1) Analog Synthesis/Reason Assignment
Due 4/17: Overview: Your third (and final project) is being divided into two parts. The first part, this assignment, deals with creating interesting synthesis patches. The second part will be to use your patches to create an interesting final composition, three minutes in length. For the composition, you will be able to use previously learned…
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(compMus1) Analog Synthesis Readings:
Two reference sources that you should start reading: Jeff Haas’s Introduction to Computer Music: Vol. 1. Chapter 4 deals with Analog synthesis. Jeff Stolet’s Electronic Music Interactive. Read the following sections: Foundation of Electronic Music; The Electronic Music System; and Bringing the Pieces Together. Make sure that you understand the different waveforms that oscillators produce,…
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(compMus1) Listening List 2
The second set of listening is available now at <my.bsu.edu>. The listening quiz will be 3/22.
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(compMus1) Assignment: Project 1 evaluation
mp3 files of all projects that were supplied as data files are now posted at kkothman.iweb.bsu.edu/mumet140-s07/project1mp3.htm . Listen to the projects. Choose 3 projects to evaluate (not your own). Email me your evaluation (kkothman [at] bsu [dot] edu). Be sure to cover the areas of creativity (were the sound manipulations and edits creative?), and audio…
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(compMus1) Reading Assignment (EM)
Read: The Electronic Century Part II: Tales of the Tape (Electronic Musician, Joel Chadabe) Pay attention to the development and use of the tape recorder, the development of music concrete (who was involved, and where), the development of electronic studios in Paris and Cologne (and how they initially differed), what was important at the Brussels…