Schedule

January 9 Week 1-1

Composing for Interactive Music [paper]

Course introduction
Audio + interaction discussion

January 11 Week 1-2

Forced marriage exercise (part 1): RR |DR | 2010-1 | SL

Forced marriage project intro

January 16 Week 2-1

No class meeting in observance of Martin Luther King Day of Service

January 18 Week 2-2

Introduction to Audiovisual Analysis (ch.10) Projections of Sound on Image (ch.1)
Lines and Points (ch.3) [link]

Contemporary works intro & dates

TV157 sign-up

Forced marriage exercise (part 2)

January 23 Week 3-1

Bernie Mack EQ PDF

Digital audio review, EQ & DSP
Recognizing the frequency of sounds
Spectral editing in Adobe Audition
IU Software; departmental gear for T540

DUE: Forced marriage project

January 25 Week 3-2

Hermann PDF, WebMelody (IEEE PDF)

Sonification
Sonification data: Tohoku Earthquake Sendai Coast, Japan (2011)
Auditory Seismology

Thomas Hermann et. al: The Sonification Handbook
WebMelody

Andrea Polli artist web site
"Atmospherics"

Carrie Bodle

Sonification assignment intro
Some students may want to experiment with Sonifyer (Macintosh 10.4 & 10.5 only)

January 30 Week 4-1

Play Along [link], Dance of the Dead [paper]
Simple option: "Design With Music In Mind: A Guide to Adaptive Audio for Game Designers" [link]
Advanced option: "Adaptive Audio Now!" [link 1] [link 2]

Game audio
Rift: Planes of Telara

Adaptive Audio with WWISE | FMod part 1 | FMod part 2 | FMod cube demo

DUE: Sonification assignment (in class)

February 1 Week 4-2

Contemporary works talk by Teresa Lynch

Adaptive Audio audio continued...
Grim Fandango: clever, musical looping
Other looping techniques for musicality and continuity

Sound state project intro
Demo file intro

February 6 Week 5-1

Bob Ostertag on computer music [link], Dimensions [link]

netArt, sound toys, sound games
Buddha Machine, Layering Buddha Live, DigiWall, Papa Sangre, RjDj

DUE: Sound state project proposal

February 8 Week 5-2

Suikinkutsu [link], Finer [link1,link2], Alvin Lucier [link1,link2] , Jacob Kirkegaard [link] Jon McCormack [link]

Sound art, installation, responsive environments

Binatone Galaxy
Fragmented Orchestra
Sound Garden

February 13 Week 6-1

Open lab

February 15 Week 6-2

Sound state project working critique #1

February 20 Week 7-1

Sound state working critique #2

February 22 Week 7-2

DUE: Sound state project due + critique

February 27 Week 8-1

Nyman [paper], Reich [link via @SteveReich], Riley [link], Silence excerpts [paper]

Contemporary works talk by Melanie Getzler

Experimental music
John Cage

February 29 Week 8-2

Wrightson [link], Lòpez [link], Cage quote [link]

Soundscape, Acoustic Ecology, soundscape composition
Soundscape assignment intro

Jacob Kirkegaard, Lee Patterson, Chris Watson

March 5 Week 9-1

Ambient 1: Music for Airports PDF; Ambient 4: On Land PDF

Ambient music
Stephan Mathieu & Taylor Deupree Transcriptions

DUE: soundscape assignment

March 7 Week 9-2

Generation Game, Generative music [link]
Playing with Time (Will Wright & Brian Eno) [MP3 & PDF transcript; video at Fora.tv]

Generative music
K-Space Infinity
Longplayer Project Listen via iTunes at http://longplayer.org/listen/longplayer.m3u
Peter Chilvers' generative music

AGS project proposal due this week (by noon Thursday) via e-mail

March 12-16 Spring Break

No classes. Enjoy spring break!

March 19 Week 10-1

AGS project working critique #1

March 21 Week 10-2

Open lab

March 26 Week 11-1

AGS project working critique #2

March 28 Week 11-2

DUE: AGS project + critique

April 2 Week 12-1

Lòpez [link], Evens (IUB e-reserves PDF)

New interfaces for music
Toshio Iwai: Electroplankton, Tenori-On
Reactable

Contemporary works talk by Catherine Chi

Composition-instrument assignment intro

April 4 Week 12-2

Momeni (download the PDF) [link], Wessel [link]

composition-instrument
composed instruments

Contemporary works talk by Brendan Wood

April 9 Week 13-1

Final project working critique #1

DUE: iOS/DROID composition-instrument assignment

April 11 Week 13-2

Open lab

April 16 Week 14-1

Final project working critique #2

April 18 Week 14-2

Open lab

April 23 Week 15-1

Final project working critique #3

April 25 Week 15-2

Open lab

May 2 Week 16 (Finals Week)

Critique of final projects during final exam period: 12:30—2:30 PM, Wednesday, May 2