CSC354: Spring, 2003, Syllabus
| Lecture | Date | Reading | Lecture Topics |
| 1 | 28-Jan | Roads Ch1 | Overview, listening, Csound example, Keykit example |
| 2 |
30-Jan Hw1 assigned (due 2/6) |
Roads:ix-xviii; Roads Ch1,Ch3, Supplemental from Csound source |
Digital Audio
Sound Synthesis |
| 3 | 4-Feb | Roads: Ch3, Ch4 | Sampling and Additive Synthesis, Wavetable Synthesis and Filters |
| 4 | 6-Feb, Hw2 assigned (due 2/13) | Roads: Ch5, Roads: Ch17 pp 786-802; Supplemental from Csound source |
Csound and Granular Synthesis Listening to Hw1 exercises. |
| 5 | 11-Feb | Csound supplemental | more Csound and Granular synthesis |
| 6 |
13-Feb Hw3 assigned (due 2/20) |
Roads: Ch21 and supplemental
Web Page |
MIDI, Keykit Software Tutorial and Help Pages
MusiNums |
| 7 | 18-Feb | Supplemental | Sound File Formats |
| 8 |
20-Feb Paper Presentations Assigned |
Roads: Ch18 | History of Algorithmic Composition Systems, More on Keykit, Listening to Hw3 |
| 9 | 25-Feb |
Roads: 856-868
Readings in Computer- Generated Music Supplemental Handouts |
Automata and their application to composition
Simple Composition Using Pentatonic Scales (Chua) |
| 10 | 27-Feb | Work on Mid-Semester Project | NO CLASS TODAY |
| 11 | 4-Mar |
Roads: 868--889
Supplemental Handouts |
Student Presentations: Fractals and Chaos Stochastic Processes and their application to composition |
| 12 | 6-Mar | Roads: 889-893 Supplemental Handouts | Formal Grammars |
| 13 | 11-Mar | Supplemental Handouts |
Student Presentations: Grammatical Models of Music |
| 14 | 13-Mar | Keykit examples and algorithms | |
| 18-Mar |
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Spring Break! | |
| 20-Mar | Spring Break! | ||
| 15 | 25-Mar, Hw4 assigned (due 4/3) | Supplemental Materials |
Self-Learning Grammar for Automatic Composition (Kohonen et al.), Keykit Volume and Rests, timing Composition |
| 16 | 27-Mar | Supplemental Materials | Belkin article - A Practical Guide to Musical Composition |
| 17 | 1-Apr | Supplemental Materials | Patterns in Music - Simon and Sumner |
| 18 | 3-Apr | supplemental materials |
Cantible - Rule-based Composition (Thomas, Chatterjee, and Maimone) Listening to Hw4 |
| 19 | 8-Apr | Supplemental Materials |
Expert System Bach Fugue Articulation (Johnson) Rhythm |
| 20 | 10-Apr | Supplemental Materials |
EMI - Cope Flavors Band - Fry |
| 21 | 15-Apr |
Supplemental Materials
Music Composition Ideas |
Cybernetic Composer - Ames and Domino Two papers on Genetic Algorithms (Spector GenBebop and Biles GenJam) |
| 22 | 17-Apr | Supplemental Materials |
Interactive Music Rowe, Winkler |
| 23 | 22-Apr |
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Accompaniment Systems: Raphael, Thom, Dannenberg |
| 24 | 24-Apr | Student Presentations | |
| 25 | 29-Apr | Student Presentations | |
| 26 | 1-May | Wrapup, Listening, Latest BreakThroughs | |
| 2-May | "student recital" with CS Dept invited. |