| Me: | Arun Chandra |
| email: | arunc@evergreen.edu |
| phone: | 867-6077 |
| office: | COM 308A |
| Computer Music by Charles Dodge and Thomas Jerse (required) | |
| Practical C Programming by Steve Oualline (required) | |
| Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Attali (required) | |
| Linux for beginners, or any introduction to the Linux operating system for users (strongly suggested) |
Please listen to each piece three times on three separate days. While listening, please listen! (i.e., do not play the piano, reformat your hard drive, do yoga, wash the dishes, etc.)
After each listening, please write one page of text about what you remember of the piece. Try to describe what the piece did, and not what it made you think about: try to describe ``it'' and not ``your reactions to it''.
Please write your one page without rereading your previous texts, i.e., do not ``refresh your memory'' about what you had heard.
After you have written three pages of text about the piece, re-read all three pages, and write a fourth page describing the differences between your writings and perceptions.
Bring in your writings on Thursdays, and be prepared to share some of your observations.
At the end of the quarter, I expect each of you to turn in 40 pages (!) of text to me, four pages on each piece.
| Karlheiz Stockhausen: | Gesänge der Jungeling |
| Herbert Brun: | Dustiny |
| Gottfried Michael Koenig: | Sound Figures (Klangfigüren) |
| Carla Scaletti: | sunsurgeautomata |
| Insook Choi: | The Frog in the Machine |
| Kenneth Gaburo: | Antiphony IV: Pearl-white moments |
| Arun Chandra: | Crocker, for three percussionists, voice, and two-channel computer-synthesized sounds |
| Jerry Tabor: | engaging Causey |
| Barry Truax: | Dominion, for chamber orchestra and grainulated sounds |
| Paul Koonce: | Pins |
| Week 1: | Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction |
| Week 2: | Benjamin (2nd session) |
| Week 3: | Herbert Brün: Wayfaring Sounds |
| Week 4: | Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception |
| Week 5: | John Cage: Experimental Music |
| John Cage: Experimental Music: Doctrine | |
| Week 6: | Pierre Boulez: Technnology and the Composer |
| Week 7: | Gottfried Michael Koenig: Composition Processes |
| Week 8: | Theodor Adorno: Music and Language: A Fragment |
| Week 9: | Jacques Attali: Noise |
| Week 10: | Attali (2nd session) |
Write two short papers.
Let time be shown moving from left to right. Approximately lay out the ``sections'' of the piece (i.e., the first section last about 1 minute, the second lasts about 3, etc.).
Your graphic should show: What are the strongest (loudest? fastest? densest?) and weakest (softest? slowest? emptiest?) parts of the composition? The graphic should show how the ``shape'' of the composition change over time.
| Week | ||
| 1 | June 23 Mon | Introduction to Linux, logins, navigating the OS |
| Fundamentals of digital synthesis | ||
| Tue | Readings: Dodge: Chap 1: Fundamentals of Computer Music | |
| Oualline: Chap 1, 2, 3 | ||
| Wed | Seminar: Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | |
| Thurs | Readings: Dodge: Chap 3: Fundamentals of Digital Audio | |
| 2 | June 30 Mon | Dodge: Synthesis fundamentals |
| Tue | Oualline: Chap 5&7: Decision and control statements, More control statements | |
| Wed | Seminar: Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | |
| Thurs | Holiday (no class) | |
| 3 | July 7 Mon | Project I due |
| Dodge: Chap 5: Synthesis using distortion techniques | ||
| Tue | Oualline: Chap 8: Variable scope and functions | |
| Wed | Seminar: Herbert Brün: Wayfaring Sounds | |
| Thurs | ||
| 4 | July 14 Mon | Paper I due (graphic architecture) |
| Tue | Oualline: Chap 12: Simple pointers | |
| Wed | Seminar: Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer: The Culture Industry | |
| Thurs | Project II due. | |
| 5 | July 21 Mon | Listening to Project II. |
| Dodge: Chap 8 Granular Synthesis | ||
| Tue | Oualline: Chap 9 The C Preprocessor | |
| Wed | Seminar: John Cage: Experimental Music and Experimental Music: Doctrine | |
| Thurs | ||
| 6 | July 28 Mon | Ideas for Paper II due. |
| Dodge: Chap 11: Composition with Computers | ||
| Tue | Oualline: Advanced types: structures and typedefs | |
| Wed | Seminar: Pierre Boulez: Technnology and the Composer | |
| Thurs | Project III due. | |
| 7 | August 4 Mon | Listening to Project III. |
| Tue | Student presentations of paper work. | |
| Wed | Seminar: Gottfried Michael Koenig: Composition Processes | |
| Thurs | ||
| 8 | August 11 Mon | Paper II due: Synthesis Algorithms |
| Tue | Oualline: Chap 13: File input and output | |
| Wed | Seminar: Theodor Adorno: Music and Language: A Fragment | |
| Thurs | Project IV due. | |
| 9 | August 18 Mon | Listening to Project IV. |
| Tue | ||
| Wed | Seminar: Jacques Attali: Noise | |
| Thurs | ||
| 10 | August 25 Mon | |
| Tue | ||
| Wed | Seminar: Jacques Attali: Noise | |
| Thurs | Project V due. | |
| Fri | Evaluations and final listening session 1pm-5pm | |