Category: assignments_cm2

Due Wednesday, 9/17 Reading, from Audio Culture: Henry Cowell, “The Joys of Noise.” pp. 22 – 24 “The Beauty of Noise: an Interview with Masami Akita of Merzbow.” pp. 59 – 61 Since both are talking about noise as musically pleasurable occurrence, write me a couple of short sentences for each article that illustrates how…

NOTE UPDATE ON DURATION REQUIREMENT. I realized that I hadn’t posted this – this is the same as the handout, except for the extended deadline. -K MUMET 241: First Creative Project (Due 9/24, by the beginning of class), Modulation Synthesis Compose a 2-minute excerpt of computer music using analog synthesis techniques available in Tassman, focusing…

In the Roads, read pp. 215 – 231, (stopping at “The FM Formula”)

Due Wed., 9/3/2008 Read pp. 3 – 9 in Audio Culture, which inludes an introduction to section 1, some quotes, and a very brief article by Jacques Attali. (and answer questions below) Also available at Google Books online. This article is taken from Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Attali’s basic definition of noise is…

Due Frida 8/29: In the Roads, read: pp. 90 – 95, “Fixed-Waveform Table-Lookup Synthesis” pp. 134 – 144, “Additive Synthesis…”

Due Wednesday, 8/27 Read Russolo’s “The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto” in Audio Culture (chapter 2, pp. 10 – 14), or online at ubuweb. Email to me short responses to the following questions: Electronic musicians have a fairly specific definition of noise. (random waveforms that produce all frequencies) Is Russolo using this defintion? If not,…

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