LECTURER:
Prof.
Andrew Horner Room: 3549 Phone:
2358-6998
Email:
TAs: Lee Chung (Chung Web) Chau Chuck Jee (Jee Web) |
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COURSE WEBPAGE: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~horner/comp342 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The techniques for synthesizing music in software synthesis, soundcards, hardware synthesizers, and mobile phones. Topics include: music representation, music theory, musical acoustics, spectral analysis, sound synthesis, sound modification techniques and effects, MIDI, music information retrieval, musical instrument recognition, music on mobile phones. No previous musical background required. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LECTURES:
Tue and Thu 10:30 - 11:50 (Room 2302) |
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LABS: 1A: Tue 19:00 - 19:50 1B: Mon 09:30 - 10:20 (CS Lab4 -- Room 4210) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COURSE
SCHEDULE:
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TEXTBOOK:
None REFERENCE BOOKS: Computer Music Tutorial by Curtis Roads, MIT Press Computer Music by Charles Dodge and Thomas Jerse, Schirmer Books, (2nd Ed) Cooking with Csound by Horner & Ayers, A-R Editions |
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QUESTIONS: I am happy to answer questions in class, after class, or by email. We can also schedule an appointment if you like. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GRADING
SCHEME: 6-7 Lab assignments (20%), Midterm (50%), Project and Presentation (30%) |