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Music and Technology: Sound Design

Subject: Technology

Art: Praetorius Trombones 1614-1620 Syntagma Musicum · Public domain

Instructor: Dr. Florian Hollerweger
Term: Spring 2016
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 1 exam · 2 solutions · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 69 other files · 10 web pages
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Music and Technology: Sound Design

Before you start

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Lecture Notes

Readings and Assignments

Quizzes

Other materials from this course

Lecture 1: Why and how to design sound? (no outline)

Lecture 2: The sound design process (PDF)

Lecture 3: Everyday sound objects (PDF)

Lecture 4: Introduction to Pure Data (Pd) (PDF)

Lecture 5: Physics of sound (PDF)

Lecture 6: Pd programming concepts (PDF)

Lecture 7: Perception of sound (PDF)

Lecture 8: Soundwalk (no outline)

Lecture 9: Shaping sound with Pd (PDF)

Lecture 10: Digital audio theory (PDF)

Lecture 11: Sound recording and editing techniques (PDF)

Lecture 12: Quiz 1; review, preview (no outline)

Lecture 13: Analysis and requirements specification (PDF)

Lecture 14: Additive synthesis (PDF)

Lecture 15: Research and model making (PDF)

Lecture 16: Waveshaping and wavetable synthesis (PDF)

Lecture 17: Final project: FP1 student presentations (no outline)

Lecture 18: Modulation synthesis (AM and FM) (no outline)

Lecture 19: Method selection and implementation (no outline)

Lecture 20: Steam train drive-by (no outline)

Lecture 21: Granular synthesis (PDF)

Lecture 22: Final project: FP3 student presentations (no outline)

Lecture 23: Quiz 2; student presentations (no outline)

Lecture 24: Thunder (PDF)

Lecture 25: Music synthesizers (PDF)

Lecture 26: Final project: FP4 presentations (no outline)