Music 271. Survey of Electronic Music Techniques
Fall quarter 2006. University of California, San Diego
https://msp.ucsd.edu/syallabi/271.06f/

Meetings: Thursdays, 5:00-6:20, Mandeville B104
Instructor: Professor Miller Puckette, Atkinson 1601E, 858-534-4823, msp@ucsd.edu, https://msp.ucsd.edu/
Office Hours: Thursdays 12:30-1:30PM or by appointment

This course is intended for graduate students interested in getting acquainted with a range of electronic music possibilities without getting too deeply into details. We'll look at nine important pieces in the electronic music repertory. In some cases we can look at an implementation of the entire piece; for others, we will be content to reproduce the salient techniques.

A tentative list of pieces (and techniques):

Chowning, Turenas (microtonal scales)
Risset, Duet for One Pianist (MIDI transformation)
Stockhausen, Mantra (ring modulation)
Tenney, Collage #1 (classic montage)
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

Here is how to use the Mandeville B104 studio linux machine and get audio and MIDI into and out of it .

Here is documentation for the patches.