January 9 Week 1-1
Composing for Interactive Music [paper]
Course introduction
Audio + interaction discussion
January 11 Week 1-2
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"
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
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
February 29 Week 8-2
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
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