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Media Arts and Technology 200B

Music Technology

Winter quarter 2008, Tuesday-Thursday 3-5 pm Studio Xenakis, Room 2215, Music Building Professor Elings Hall 2203 University of California, Santa Barbara telephone 893-2932, [email protected] Teaching assistant: Mr. Yutaka Makino Textbook: The Tutorial (1996) by Curtis Roads, The MIT Press.

______Week 1 Orientation; Historical overview of ; The nature of sound 8 January The legend of electronic music I Assignment Read "The great opening up of music to all sounds," pages 21-62 of Electric Sound by Joel Chadabe. Quiz 1 next Tuesday.

Final project assignment Choose one of three options: PAPER, STUDIO PROJECT, or PROGRAMMING, and realize a final project in consultation with the instructor. All projects are presented in class. Here are some possible projects.

1. PAPER Present an historical or technical paper. An historical paper might focus on, for example, a pioneer of electronic music, such as Clara Rockmore, Theremin, Xenakis, Hiller, Stockhausen, Varese, Bebe Barron, etc.. A technical paper should focus on a topic related to digital audio or music, such as MP3 encoding and decoding, DVD formats, high-resolution audio, etc.

2. STUDIO PROJECT USING MULTIRACK RECORDING, EDITING, MIXING The studio project could be original music or a soundtrack for a video project, an audio documentary, audio play, sound art, environmental, or ambient piece

3. PROGRAMMING PROJECT Develop software related to digital audio and music in a programming language like Matlab, SuperCollider, Csound, C++, Java, etc.

Bring a 1-page project proposal to discuss with the instructor by Tuesday 22 January

10 January Lecture: The legend of electronic music II Lecture: The nature of sound I Listening: Excerpts of POINT LINE CLOUD (2005) by Curtis Roads

______Week 2 The nature of sound; Digital audio fundamentals 15 January Quiz 1 on Chadabe historical reading; discussion of Chadabe text. Lecture: The nature of sound II Viewing Film excerpts: Magic Music from the Telharmonium I Listening Bernard Parmegiani: De Natura Sonorum (1975) Assignment Read Chapter 1 "Digital Audio Concepts" of The Computer Music Tutorial. On reserve in the Music Library. There is also a copy in Studio 2215. Quiz 2 next Tuesday

17 January Lecture: Basics of digital audio I, quantization and sampling rates. Listening Natasha Barrett: Little Animals (1997) Ilhan Mimaroglu: Six preludes for magnetic tape (1967) Viewing Fellini Satyricon, featuring Ilhan Mimaroglu's electronic music

______Week 3 Review of audio engineering I: digital audio synthesis and microphones 22 January Quiz 2 on digital audio Discussion of final project proposals Lecture: Introduction to digital sound synthesis Lab Explain mixer and patchbay in more detail Demonstration of digital audio recording and editing with Peak Viewing Film excerpts: Magic Music from the Telharmonium II Listening The historical CD of digital sound synthesis (Wergo) Assignment Read Alten "Microphones" + Streicher and Everest “Coincident microphone stereo techniques” and Spaced microphone stereo techniques” from The New Stereo Soundbook. Quiz 3 next Thursday

24 January Demonstration of sound editing in Peak Lecture: Introduction to microphones I Viewing Film excerpts: Theremin, an Electronic Odyssey, part 1

______Week 4 Review of audio engineering II: microphones and synthesis techniques 29 January Lecture: Microphones II, multichannel microphone techniques Viewing Film excerpts: Theremin, an Electronic Odyssey, part 2

31 January Quiz 3 on microphones and stereo recording techniques Lecture: Taxonomy of sound synthesis techniques I Play Taxonomy of synthesis CD Listening The electronic music of Luciano Berio J.-J. Perrey playing the Ondioline, an early electronic instrument

______Week 5 Graphical synthesis, mixing and DSP effects 5 February Lecture: Sound synthesis techniques II, focus on graphical synthesis Play Percy Grainger CD Demonstration of MetaSynth Lecture: Introduction to sound mixing and monitoring Listening: Music of Ligeti Gyorgy Ligeti, Artikulation (1958), with projection of graphic score Atmospheres (1961), Volumina (1961) Viewing: excerpts from 2001: A Space Odyssey with music by Ligeti

7 February Lecture: Taxonomy of audio signal processing techniques I, demonstration in Peak Listening: Spatial audio Virtual sound demo on headphones; dummy head recording Assignment Bring an example of (1) good recording technique, (2) bad recording technique Be prepared to defend your selection in one week. Viewing Pioneer of Visual Music: Norman McLaren

______Week 6 Sound in space; Visual music 12 February Lecture: Sound in space I Show Altiverb convolution reverberation movie (www.audioease.com) Lecture: Taxonomy of audio signal processing techniques II, demonstration in Peak Demonstration of visual music Dennis Miller: Faktura : Sidewinder DVD Roads/O’Reilly: Fluxon DVD Semiconductor DVD

14 February Valentine Day Lecture: Sound in space II Presentation of recordings selected by students; class discussion Listening Electronic music of Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon, Touch. ______Week 7 Microsound and multiscale organization 19 February Lecture: Introduction to microsound Play examples from the book and from matching pursuit examples Optional assignment Read Chapter 9, "Sound mixing and monitoring" in The Computer Music Tutorial Listening Barry Truax (1987) Riverrun Horacio Vaggione (1998) Agon

21 February Discussion of progress on final projects Lecture: Multiscale organization

______Week 8 Stockhausen, music programming languages, the art of mixing 26 February Lecture: The electronic music of Stockhausen: Kontakte (1960) Viewing Film excerpt: Stockhausen: Four criteria of electronic music

28 February Lecture: Overview of languages for development of music software Lecture: The Art of Mixing and mastering Listening Sud by Jean-Claude Risset Viewing Clockwork Orange with electronic music by

______Week 9 Aesthetics and business aspects of music production 4 March Lecture 1: Introduction to musical aesthetics: quality, form, technique, style, innovation, craftsmanship. Class discussion Viewing and listening The music of Oskar Sala and his Mixtur-Trautonium The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock, soundtrack by Oskar Sala Optional assignment Reading from music industry publications

6 March Lecture 2: Business aspects of music: producing, recording contracts, book contracts Class discussion Viewing Solaris (1972) by Tarkovski with electronic music by Eduard Artemiev

______Week 10 10-14 March Dead week

______Week 11 Final projects 18 March Final examination. Deadline for presentation of final projects

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