Music 499 E: Proseminar

ADVANCED COMPUTER MUSIC

(Spring 2009)

Time: Fall - Monday 3-5 pm
Room: Computer Music Project (Room 5045)
Credit: 2 or 4 credits.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor

This seminar is open to students who have an interest in Computer Music (digital sample synthesis, computer-assisted composition, automatic music notation, etc.) as well as in the visualization of music and sonification of complex scientific data. Good C++ programming skills are required.

Currently, students are asked to contribute to DISSCO (Digital Instrument for Sound Synthesis and Composition), an ongoing project involving computer-assisted composition, sound synthesis, and a web-based graphic interface.

Weekly meetings also discuss related techniques and/or software, new ideas in sciences which might be applied to music. In the past, topics have included: Psychoacoustics, Algorithms for Composition, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, AI techniques, graphics packages, and others.

The Experimental Music Studios of the University of Ilinois Computer Music Project equipment will be available to the participants.

See also:

• Computer Music Courses Using Supercomputers (with Robin Bargar, Ben Cox, and David Kelley), Proc. 1990 Int'l Computer Music Conference , (Glasgow, Scotland; September 1990), International Computer Music Association, San Francisco, CA, 1990, pp. 39-42.
• DISSCO: A Unified Approach to Sound Synthesis and Composition. Hans G. Kaper and Sever Tipei.
  This version was submitted to the 2005 ICMC; a shorter (4 pages) version to appear in
  Proc. 2005 Int'l Computer Music Conference (Barcelona, Spain, September 2005).
  International Computer Music Association, San Francisco, CA, 2005.
• Music 199T: Open Undergraduate Seminar

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