This course will focus on a wide range of topics in sound synthesis and music composition using the MAX/MSP and Max4Live program. Students will undertake projects in interactive MIDI composition, algorithmic composition, additive and subtractive synthesis, waveshaping, AM/FM synthesis, and sampling. Other topics to be covered include SYSEX programming, sound analysis, theories of timbre, and concepts of musical time. (keywords: computer music, electronic music, sound)

This course is geared toward Division III students and Five College seniors completing or anticipating advanced architectural or other design studio projects. The Advanced Architecture + Design Lab course provides a structured and critical creative environment for students to explore, experiment and design in both an individual and collaborative studio setting. In this course, students will develop their own individual design projects, identifying their own approach, scope and thesis, then executing their creative acts throughout the semester.

Through this course, students will develop processes that expand their capacities to see, engage, and support artists, their processes and their resulting work; examine histories and functions of curatorial practice as applied to performance and time-based arts, and correlate existing field-wide practices with larger systemic concerns that have shaped the current arts ecosystem.

The desire to save our planet from imminent destruction is shared by growing numbers of people all over the world. Yet debates about climate change, environmental disaster, mass extinction, and possible solutions to them continue to be framed by discourses that have their roots in capitalist, imperialist, and patriarchal worldviews. This course examines critical and creative approaches to sustainability and extinction that challenge us to go beyond these frames.

At the heart of the twentieth century lies the destruction of European Jewry, but both before and after the Holocaust there is an amazingly rich and varied literature written by Jews in western, eastern, and central Europe (and many of these writers moved around frequently).

Animation can be used to illustrate the unspoken, document the unseen, and interpret the everyday. This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of frame by frame filmmaking and handcrafted cinema. Prior experience is not necessary. Camera-less techniques, stop motion, cut-out and alternative approaches to image design and acquisition are introduced as well as camera work, hand-processing, and editing. The development of personal vision is stressed.

Historically, settler states and imperial regimes have disenfranchised and dispossessed racialized Others by constructing ideological frameworks that justify and obscure the ongoing violence of the colonial process. Through a close examination of film, television, music, and digital media, this course will explore how contemporary US popular culture fabricates and disseminates imperialist fantasies and settler mythologies.

This course will explore the photobook's contribution to the evolving narrative of photography. Focusing on the global photobook community with an emphasis on the intersection of image and text. Special attention will be payed to contemporary photobook examples and scholarship to examine the development of small and large press publishing. We will study examples of notable works that have recently emerged.

This course will build on students' previous study of modern dance technique, continuing the practice of employing the studio as a laboratory for semester-long exploration. This semester will include special attention to the ways Horton technique can be imagined as a release technique of sorts. This paradox will support ongoing focus on deepening sensation, clarifying points of initiation in the body, expansive use of space, connectivity, the development of strength and stamina, and increasingly complex phrase work.

This course introduces students to basic mechanisms of diatonic harmony. Through analysis, performance, and composition, we will build a solid working understanding of basic principles of melody, harmony, and form common in many musical traditions that we consume in our everyday lives. Assignments will include writing short melodies and accompaniments as well as more detailed compositional and improvisational projects. We will use our instruments and voices to bring musical examples to life in the classroom. Two class meetings and one ear training session per week.