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Instructor: Lippold Haken
Lecture: 260 Everitt,
Sound Design Lab: 263 Everitt
Course Description: Electronic and Computer Music survey course. Topics include: Electronic and computer music technology since 1900; parameters of musical expression and their codification; analysis and synthesis of fixed sound spectra; time-variant spectrum analysis/synthesis of musical sounds; algorithms for dynamic sound synthesis.
Sound Design Laboratory: The course includes a Sound Design Lab each week. This provides hands-on experience designing, implementing, and testing real-time audio signal processing algorithms for computer music.
Prerequisites: Music 202 or equivalent; Electrical and Computer Engineering 390 and 410.
Students that are not ECE majors may be exempt from prerequisites, please contact the instructor.
Credit: 3 Hours or 3/4 Unit.
Purpose of course: To provide a familiarity with traditional and new methods of electronic and computer music synthesis and their theory of operation and design. Level is senior or graduate ECE.
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25% Homework and Sound Design Lab
20% Class Discussion and Informal Presentations
25% Midterm
30% Final
Office Hours:
Lippold Haken: At the end of lecture, or by email appointment.
TA: By email appointment.
Fall 2009 Lab Schedule:
If you have comments or suggestions, email to Lippold Haken at l-haken@uiuc.edu