Professor Miller Puckette , 119 Mandeville Hall, 534-4823
E-mail: msp@ucsd.edu web: https://msp.ucsd.edu/syllabi/ Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:45-1:45 PM or by appointment. Teaching assistant: Kerry Hagan (khagan@ucsd.edu)

This course is an introduction to the rich tradition of electronic "art music" from the year 1948 to the present.

Lectures are Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:10 in Mandeville B202; additional discussion sessions are led by the teaching assistant. Reading assignments are from the course reader available from Soft Reserves; listening materials are on reserve in the Music Library. Here are the listening tape contents.

There will be in-class tests on Oct. 20 and Nov. 17 and a final exam; a 5-10 page paper is due Nov. 24.

TOPICS

Sept. 24, 29; Oct. 1. Music, sound, and modernism
Listening assignment: Pierre Boulez, Piano Sonata no. 1, part 2 (1946; 4:30)
Iannis Xenakis, PH Concrète (1958; 2:42)
James Tenney, Collage #1 (1963; 3:22)
Mario Davidovsky, Synchronism #9 for violin and tape (1988; 8:46)
Trevor Wishart, Vox, no. 5 (1986; 6:02)
Heinrich Taube, Gloriette for John Cage (1994; 4:07)
Charles Dodge, Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental (1979; 7:56)
Jonathan Harvey, Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1979; 9:00)

Oct. 6, 8. Tape music (Musique Concrète )
Listening: Schaeffer, Etude aux chemins de Fer (1948; 2:50)
Schaeffer, Etude Pathétique (1948; 4:00)
Schaeffer and Henri, Bidule en Ut (1950; 1:51)
Luciano Berio, Thema (Ommagio a Joyce) (1958; 6:12)
Luciano Berio, Momenti (1960; 7:10)
Schaeffer and Henri, Symphonie Pour un Homme Seul (1950; 21:25)
Vladimir Ussachevsky, Sonic Contours (1952; 7:20)
Reading assignment: Course reader selections #1, #2

Oct. 13, 15, 20 Early electronic music
Listening: Edgard Varèse, Ionisation (5:42)
Edgard Varèse, Integrales (10:25)
Edgard Varèse, Poème Eléctronique (1958; 7:56)
Iannis Xenakis, Metastasis (8:23)
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Study II (1954; 3:01)
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kontackte (1954; 34:37)
Course reader: #3, #4, #5

Oct. 22. Synthesizers
Listening: Milton Babbitt, Phonemena (4:12)
Morton Subotnick, The Wild Bull, part B (1968; 15:01)
Walter Carlos, Brandenburg Concerto, no. 3, third movement (1969?; 4:42)
Course reader: #6

Oct. 27, 29. Computer music
Listening: John Chowning, Phoné (1981; 12:33)
Iannis Xenakis, Mycenae-Alpha (9:37)
Charles Dodge, Speech Songs (1972; 7:01)
Charles Dodge, Elegy (1988; 16:18)
William Albright, Sphaera (1985; 12:44)
Lansky, Six Fantasies on a poem by Thomas Campion (1979; 22:24)
Course reader: #7, #8

Nov. 3, 5. The IRCAM school
Listening: Philippe Manoury, La Partition du Ciel et de l'Enfer (1989; 39:39)
Pierre Boulez, Dialogue de l'Ombre Double (1985; 17:42)
Jean-Baptiste Barriere: Chréode 1 (1983; 9:26)
Kaija Saariaho. Noa Noa (1991; 9:10)
Risset, Songes (1979; 9:05)
Course reader: #9, #10, #11

Nov. 10, 12. Digital Musique Concrete
Listening: Risset, Sud (1985; 23:56)
Dhomont, Artifice (1989; 10:32)
Cetto, ...que me hiciste mal... (1992; 7:57)
Koonce, Pins (1996; 13:23)
Course reader: #12

Nov. 17, 19, 24. Modernism and Postmodernism
Listening: Cage, Daughters of the lonesome isle (1945; 9:57)
John Cage, Radio Music (1956; 6:14)
Steve Reich, Come Out (1966; 12:54)
Laurie Spiegel, Appalachian Grove 1 (1974; 5:20)
Pauline Oliveros, Bye Bye Butterfly (1965; 8:10)
Jean-Claude Risset, 8 sketches for piano (1989; nos. 2, 4, and 8: 1:25, 1:09, 3:29)
Rosenboom, Lineage (1994; 8:29)
Lansky, Idle Chatter (1985; 9:26)
George Lewis, Voyager, no. 1 (1993; 3:00)
Course reader: #13, #14, #15

PAPER ASSIGNMENT due Nov. 24: As the technological possibilities expanded over the last fifty years, how did changes in the music reflect them? What, if any, qualities of earlier electronic music have been lost in the process and what has been gained? Draw from specific musical examples.

Dec. 1, 3. Pop music and art music
Listening: Chuck Berry, Sweet 16 (2:59)
Jimi Hendrix, Fire (perf. 1969; 3:32)
The Beatles, Drive My Car (1966; 2:32)
Pink Floyd, medley from Dark Side of the Moon (1973; 10:38)
Eurithmics, Here comes the rain (1983; 4:50)
Tangerine Dream, Choronzon (1981)
Laurie Anderson, Sharkey's Day
Peter Gabriel, Shock the Monkey (1982; 3:56)
Thomas Dolby, She Blinded Me With Science (3:46)
Fatboy Slim, The Rockafella Skank (1998)

Periodicals and web sites
Computer Music Journal
Leonardo Music Journal
Perspectives of New Music
1/1 : the quarterly journal of the Just Intonation Network
Proceedings, International Computer Conference
https://crca-www.ucsd.edu/ (UCSD)
https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/ (UCB)
https://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/ (Stanford University)
https://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu/ (The CERL Sound Group)
https://www.ircam.fr/ (IRCAM, Paris, France)
https://coos.dartmouth.edu/~rsn/icma/icma.html (International Computer Music Association)