Music 271. Survey of Electronic Music Techniques
(this is an old offering; here is the following year's. )
Fall quarter 2001. University of California, San Diego
https://msp.ucsd.edu/syllabi/172.02s/homepage.htm

Textbook: none
Meetings: TBA
Instructor: Professor Miller Puckette , CRCA room 7, 858-534-4823, msp@ucsd.edu, https://msp.ucsd.edu/
Office Hours: TBA
TA: TBA

This course 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 nine 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):
Risset, Duet for One Pianist (MIDI transformation)
Stockhausen, Mantra (ring modulation)
Tenney, Collage #1 (classic montage)
Chowning, Turenas (microtonal scales)
Harvey, Mortuous Plango, Vivos Voco (sinusoidal analysis/additive synthesis)
Manoury, Pluton (several real-time audio processing techniques)
Boulez, Dialogue de l'Ombre Double (spatialization)
Steiger, 13 loops (using instrumental ensembles)
Yuasa, Toward the Midnight Sun (filtering)

The term assignment is to choose one of the examples and write a short musical sketch based on it.

Practical stuff

We will use the Mandeville B104 linux machine . In principle you can also run the courseware at home if you have a reasonably fast PC compatible computer running Windows 98, NT, or Linux, although you should allow a couple of weeks to sort out practical difficulties.

Here is documentation for the patches.