Welcome to CSCI 110. This is the syllabus for the course. It is a "contract" that defines what will be taught in the course and what you as students will be responsible for. It can be found on the web server at Diving_Into_Research.html.
Basic Information Course Description Textbooks Your Evaluation Lectures | Professor: | Dr. Jerry Breecher, Mail to: jbreecher at clarku.edu |
| (508)793-7396 | |
| Meeting Time: | Lecture: ????? |
| Office Hours: | Monday, Thursday 10:00 - 12:00 |
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Office hours can be walk-in -- otherwise make an appointment to be sure I'll be there. e-mail is great. |
This is what the catalog says:
CSCI 110: DIVING INTO RESEARCH - Investigating Sound
The focus of this research is to better understand Sound and how it is generated, recorded, stored and played by a computer. We'll look at the physics of sound, talk about various computer hardware and software, sound representation systems, and other topics of interest to participants. My particular interests are in better understanding simple musical sounds and spoken sounds, but others in the class may wish to pursue the generation of complex music, delve into voice recognition systems, understand storage mechanisms such as MP3, and so on.
Students will be responsible for designing, researching, and presenting one project each semester. Topics are very open as long as they are within the general theme of music and sound.
Required:
None. But I have found these books to be very helpful:
"The CSound Book", Richard Boulanger, ed. MIT Press, 2000, ISBN 0-262-52261-6
"The Computer Music Tutorial", Curtis Roads. MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 0-262-68082-3
Materials that will be handed out or available in the Library:
Paths to various tools you can download.
Documentation for these tools and CSound can be found at CSOUND_MANUALS
Your evaluation in this course is determined by:
100% Your presentation and the steps leading up to that presentation.
In the Table below is an outline of the topics we will be discussing
during the course. Also included is the reading you will be expected to
do in order to sound intelligent in class.
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| Course Introduction. Generating Sound | Write a short CSound script |
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| The nature of sond - Time domain and frequency domain | Write a short CSound script |
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| Sound Files - .wav, .mp3, etc | Write a short CSound script |
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| Generating Sound II | Write a longer CSound script |
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| Psychology and Physiology of Sound. Generating Sound III | Write a longer CSound script |
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| What are appropriate topics for your project? | Define a topic you'd like to work on. |
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| Instruments: Attack/Decay of a note. Frequency analysis of an instrument. | Write a CSound script of a complex note. |
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| Steps in doing research. | List of steps to accomplish your project. |
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