Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0290 - Electroacoustic Music I

This is a composition course that will also engage the history, theory, and practice of electro-acoustic music. The course will introduce the musical, technical, and aesthetic issues of electro-acoustic music, broadly construed to include the Classical avant-garde, Electronica, DJ culture, Ambient, etc. Digital recording, editing, and mixing will be covered using the Audacity, Logic, or ProTools programs. Students will also work with sampling and looping techniques using Ableton Live. Other topics to be covered include basic acoustics and synthesis techniques. Students will be expected to complete three composition projects during the course of the semester. Formal knowledge of music is helpful, but not required.

Independent Work In this course, students can generally expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.