Professor Miller Puckette , CRCA room 7, 534-4823
E-mail: msp@ucsd.edu web: https://www.msp.ucsd.edu/

TENTATIVELY MEETING: Thursdays 12:45 and 4:00 (come to either session.)

This graduate level seminar is intended for graduate music students interested in getting acquainted with some popular electronic techniques without getting into too many technical details. I'm hoping to look at ten important pieces in the electronic music repertory and try to build tools that imitate some important aspect of each one.

A tentative list of pieces (and techniques):
Harvey, Mortuous Plango, Vivos Voco (sinusoidal analysis/additive synthesis)
Boulez, Dialogue de l'Ombre Double (spatialization)
Tenney, Collage #1 (classic musique concrete technique)
Reich, Come Out (sampling)
Chowning, Turenas (microtonal scales)
Risset, Duet for One Pianist (interactive performance techniques)
Manoury, En Echo (score following)
Lansky, Six Fantasies on a poem by Thomas Campion (vocal synthesis)
Wishart, Vox, no. 5 (phase vocoder)
Stockhausen, Kontakte (early electronic studio technique)

Each two weeks (on average) we'll listen to some piece or other and I'll show you how you can explore some of the effects accomplished there using a collection of "courseware" I'll be hacking into shape. My intention isn't so much to teach you how to put together computer applications as to invite exploration of applications that are already put together. Ideally it should be possible for you to put together your own musical sketches. At the end of the two quarters you should have a reasonably broad view of what techniques are "out there" and be ready to explore more deeply the ones which you would like to use in your own work.

Practical stuff

If you're interested in attending, please contact me and give me at least a preliminary idea of when you can meet, once a week for 2 hours. If you haven't already done so, you'll need to get an ACS account and B104 door code.

We will use the Mandeville B104 concert machine . You can also run the "courseware" at home if you have a reasonably fast PC compatible computer running Windows 98 or NT.