MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
8/24
8/25
Lecture 1
Introduction

Reference:
Razihel & Virtual Riot's
One For All, All For One

Reference:
Chasing The Future, Diplo Makes The Hits of Today

8/26
8/27
Lecture 2
Sound and Timbre

Reading Assignment:
Music and Computers
(1.1 - 1.4)

Viewing Assignment:
Leon Theremin
demonstrates the Theramin

Viewing Assignment:
Clara Rockmore
plays The Swan
on the Theramin

Listening Assignment:
The Beach Boys'
Good Vibrations using a Tannerin

Viewing Assignment:
Lydia Kavina
plays the Doctor Who Theme
on a Theremin
8/28
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
8/31
9/1
Lecture 3
Sound and Timbre
(continued)

Viewing Assignment:
Les Paul & Mary Ford Overdubbing

Viewing Assignment:
Les Paul & Mary Ford's
"How High the Moon"

Viewing Assignment:
Les Paul & Mary Ford's
"There's No Place Like Home"

Last Day to Drop
without a "W"


9/2
9/3
Lecture 4
Digital Representation of Sound

Reading Assignment:
Music and Computers
(2.1 - 2.3)

Viewing Assignment:
Stockhausen on 'Sounds'

Listening Assignment:
Lejaren Hiller's
"Computer Cantata"

Viewing Assignment:
Bruce Haack on 'Mr. Rogers Neighborhood'


9/4
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
9/7
LABOR DAY







9/8
MYSTERY DAY







9/9
9/10
Lecture 5
Digital Representation of Sound
(continued)

Reference:
Sampling Documentary

Reference:
James Brown's
The Funky Drummer

Reference:
Bernard Purdie's
Purdie Shuffle

Reference:
The Honey Drippers'
Impeach the President

Reference:
Liquid Liquid's Cavern

Reference:
Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel's White Lines


9/11
HW 1
due @ 11:59pm
(Waveforms & Audacity)
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
9/14
9/15
Lecture 6
Web Technologies
(HTML5, CSS3, & JavaScript)

Reference:
Web Audio Demos 		9/16
9/17
Lecture 7
Web Technologies
(continued)

 9/18
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
9/21
9/22
Lecture 8
Web Audio

Reading Assignment
-Hit Charade (The Atlantic)

Listening Assignment
-Gimme Chocolate
by Baby Metal

References:
-Getting Started with Web Audio API
-Web Audio Example
-Netbeans Project
-Web Audio API
-Web Audio API Basics
-Web Audio Oscillators
-Using FFT w/ Web Audio

Reference:
-Crossfade Example
-Crossfade NetBeans Project
-Web Audio Oscillators Example
-Web Audio Oscillators NetBeans Project



9/23
9/24
Lecture 9
Web Audio
(continued)

9/25
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
9/28
HW 2
due @ 11:59pm
(Samples)

9/29
Lecture 10
The Frequency Domain
& FFT

Reading Assignment:
Music and Computers
(3.1 - 3.6)

Reference:
Why Country Music was Awful in 2013

Reference:
The Clash's
Rudie Can't Fail

Listening Assignment:
The Beatles'
Tomorrow Never Knows

Listening Assignment:
Pink Floyd's
Dark Side of the Moon

9/30
10/1
Lecture 11
FFT
(continued)

Reading Assignment:
Music and Computers
(4.1 - 4.2)

Reference:
Bach's Toccata & Fugue
in D minor

Reference:
World's Largest Pipe Organ

Reference:
The Synthesis of Synthesis:
The Telharmonium

Reference:
Magic Music From
The Telharmonium Documentary

Reference:
Hammond Organ History

Reference:
Booker T & the MGs'
Green Onions

10/2
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
10/5
10/6
Lecture 12
Sound Synthesis

Viewing Assignment:
Moog: A Film by
Hans Fjellestad

10/7
10/8
NO LECTURE
Project Work Day

 10/9
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
10/12 10/13
Lecture 14
Filters & Formants

Reading Assignment:
Music and Computers
(4.3 - 4.4)

Reference:
Where Music Meet Science Part 2: Timbre and Complex Waves

Reference:
Wine glass resonance in slow motion

Viewing Assignment:
Kraftwerk's The Robots

Viewing Assignment:
Herbie Hancock's Rockit

10/14
10/15
Lecture 15
Modulation & Waveshaping

Reading Assignment:
Music and Computers
(4.5 - 4.9)

Listening Assignment:
Listening Assignment:
Wendy Carlos'
Funeral of Queen Mary

Listening Assignment:
Wendy Carlos'
Ode to Joy


10/16
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
10/19
HW 3
due @ 11:59pm
(Web Audio)



10/20
Lecture 15
Midterm Review


10/21
10/22
MIDTERM EXAM
(Topics)


10/23
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
10/26
10/27
Lecture 18
Nyquist

Reference:
Nyquist Manual

Reference:
Nyquist for Audacity

Reference:
Black MIDI

Reference:
More Black MIDI



10/28
10/29
Lecture 19
Music Theory

7/8 Reference:
Rush's
Limelight

3/4 Reference:
Aretha Franklin's
Natural Woman

4/4 Reference:
Solomon Burke's
Fast Train

Major Scale Reference:
The Sound Of Musics'
Do Re Mi

Minor Scale Reference:
Beethoven's
7th Symphony (2nd Movement)

10/30
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
11/2
11/3
Lecture 20
Music Theory
(continued)


11/4
11/5
Lecture 21
JFugue Introduction

Reference:
JFugue Java API
for Music Programming

Reference:
JFugue Guide

Reference:
Java Sound
API Soundbanks

Reference:
Chariots of Fire Theme





11/6
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
11/9 11/10
Lecture 22
JFugue Composition

Reference:
JFugue Java API
for Music Programming

11/11
11/12
Lecture 23
JFugue Composition
(continued)

HW 4
due @ 11:59pm
(Nyquist & The Whizzler)


11/13
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
11/16
11/17
Lecture 24
Music Visualization

Reference:
Taylor Swift's
Shake It Off



11/18
11/19
Lecture 25
Effects Processing



11/20
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
11/23
11/24
PROJECT WORK DAY

HW 5
due @ 11:59pm
(MIDIs with JFugue)

11/25
TRAVEL DAY







11/26
THANKSGIVING







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11/30
12/1
Lecture 26
Final Exam Review

Reference:
Jim Morrison on the future of music


12/2
12/3
NO LECTURE
Project Work Day


12/4
MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY
12/7
READING DAY

HW 6
due @ 12:01am
(Sunday night)
(Audifly)








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