Text: Roads, Computer Music Tutorial, MIT Press.

Software: Nyquist, Audacity

Note: All projects due at 10PM on the date indicated. Check the project submission instructions.

Week 1
Jan 13 Course Description How Computers Make Sound	Reading: Roads, pp 20-29, 90-100, 763-768 Project 0 (due Jan 14, 10pm) Install Nyquist on your computer. Evaluate using SAL mode: play pluck(c4) Play some sounds with the Sound Browser (find Browse button or menu item). Install Audacity on your computer. Record and view a sound. Try the spectral view. Put a file named project0.txt in /afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15322-s09/usr/USER-ID/proj-00 (Check the project submission instructions.) Read the assigned textbook pages (see above).
Jan 15 The SAL Programming Language	Project 1 (due Jan 21, 10pm) Record a sentence. Use Audacity to manipulate the sound. Create something interesting. (30 to 60s) Post the result along with short answers (sentences or paragraphs) to: What manipulations did you perform? What was your intention?
Week 2
Jan 20 Unit Generators and Nyquist Expressions	Reading: Roads, pp 100-113 Project 2 (due Jan 28, 10pm): Use Nyquist to synthesize an interesting sound using oscillators and envelopes. The duration should be from 1 to 10 seconds.
Jan 22 Instruments and Scores	Reading: Simoni & Dannenberg, Chapter 4
Week 3
Jan 27 Behavioral Abstraction	Reading: Behavioral Abstraction in Nyquist Manual (part3.html#15). Reading: By now, you should have reviewed the Nyquist documentation in general. Project 3 (due Feb 4, 10pm): Make a 30" composition, based on your interesting sound from the last project.
Jan 29 score-gen and Patterns	Reading: Simoni & Dannenberg, Chapter 5
Week 4
Feb 3 Sampling Theory Sample Rate Quantization Nyquist's Theorem Quantization Noise Dither Oversampling	Reading: Roads, pp 30-47 Project 4 (due Feb 11, 10pm): Make an interesting FM instrument behavior in Nyquist. Illustrate the default behavior and then use stretch, loud, and transpose transformations.
Feb 5 The Frequency Domain Frequency Modulation Amplitude Modulation	Reading: Roads, pp. 14-20
Week 5
Feb 10 Sampling	Reading: Roads, pp 215-242 Project 5 (due Feb 18, 10pm) Make a composition lasting at least 1 minute and no more than 5. Use your FM behavior from the last project. (You will probably want to augment this with other sounds.).
Feb 12 Granular Synthesis
Week 6
Feb 17 Programming Techniques	Reading: Roads, pp 1053-1069 Project 6 (due Feb 25, 10pm): Make a short composition (about 1 minute) using granular synthesis and/or by using Nyquist to cut/splice/reassemble a sound file.
Feb 19 Digital Audio Effects Acoustics Audio & Music Perception
Week 7
Feb 24 Algorithmic Composition I	Reading: Roads, pp 819-832 Reading: Simoni & Dannenberg, Chap. 13 Project 7 (due Mar 4, 10pm): Extended Project Proposal.
Feb 26 Algorithmic Composition II	Reading: Simoni & Dannenberg, Chap. 14
Week 8
Mar 3 Filters in Nyquist Reverberation Delay	Reading: Roads, pp 184-197, 550-555 Reading: Roads, pp 472-492 Project 8 (due Mar 18, 10pm) Make a short piece (about 1 minute) by filtering vocal sounds.
Mar 5 3D Sound Doppler Shift Multi-speaker playback	Reading: Roads, pp 451-472
Week 9
Mar 17 Spectral Manipulation Cross-Synthesis	Reading: Roads, pp 1084-1094
Mar 19 Algorithmic Control of Signal Processing	Reading: Simoni & Dannenberg, Chap 15
Week 10
Mar 24 Human Voice I LPC Vosim	Reading: Roads, pp 200-210, pp 296-314 Project 9 (due Apr 1, 10pm) Interim project report.
Mar 26 Human Voice II FOF MQ/SMS
Week 11
Mar 31 Physical Modeling I	Reading: Roads, pp 265-288
Apr 2 Physical Modeling II
Week 12
Apr 7 Spectral Interpolation Synthesis	Reading: Istvan Derenyi and Roger B. Dannenberg. "Synthesizing Trumpet Performances," in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association (1998) pp 490-496. Dannenberg, Pellerin, and Derenyi. ``A Study of Trumpet Envelopes,'' in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association (1998) pp 57-61.
Apr 9 Phrase-Based Synthesis
Week 13
Apr 14 Audio Data Compression	Details of this assignment and due date subject to change: Project 10 (due April 22, 10pm) Extended Composition
Apr 16 NO CLASS
Week 14
Apr 23 Audio Systems	Reading: Dannenberg and van de Lageweg, ``A System Supporting Flexible Distributed Real-Time Music Processing,'' in Proceedings of the 2001 International Computer Music Conference, San Francisco: International Computer Music Association, (2001), pp. 267-270.
Apr 21 Music Understanding	Reading: Dannenberg and Raphael, ``Music Score Alignment and Computer Accompaniment'', CACM, 49(8), 2006, pp 38-43.
Week 15
Apr 28 TBA	Project 12 (due May 1, 10pm) Written project report.
Apr 30 TBA
Final Exam	(Extended Project Presentations)
May 7 8:30am - 11:30am	Project 11 Oral Project Report.