Introduction to Computer Music

Week Three Slides

This week, we'll be adding minor/chromatic intervals into the mix and begin working on melodic dictation. On the electronic side, I'll introduce the two most common varieties of Amplitude Modulation.

Slides for Week Three are below.

Week Two Materials

 

After a break for Halloween, we will be continuing the course tomorrow, Monday, November 7 @ 6:30 PM. As always, the course is taught at Black Lodge Research in Redmond.

Here's what we'll be covering:

• Listening: Stria by John Chowning
• Review: Rhythmic Dictation
• Sight Reading/Ear Training: Recognizing and Singing Intervals
• Synthesis: Additive and Vector Synthesis; Timbre and harmonic series; Beginning Envelopes
• Instruments: Basic MIDI control ; Additive Synthesis; Vector Synthesis

Since the shared Powerpoint slides were less than optimal cross-platform during the first class, the slides have been prepared directly for the web. Click here for week two's slides.

Week One's slides have been similarly prepared and are available here. Here are this week's audio exercises and instruments (for Max/MSP):

A Live Meeting link for this class is available through the discussion list -- click here to join.

Week One Materials

The first class meets on Monday, October 17 from 6:30 - 9pm.

Here are the slides for the evening. Note that the audio doesn't play in embedded Powerpoint slides. All of the dictation materials are taken from the exercises attached below -- you can use those to practice.

 

Below the Audio materials below are performances of the music notated in the PDF document -- the numbers correspond. You can use those for both sight-reading and dictation practice. Also included are the instruments used during the lesson.