PROJECTS

Submit your assignments to the Box Account with the following content:

• An AIFF or WAV file (with standard sampling rate and bit depth) labelled with the specified filename

• Screen shot(s) of your software session

Compositions are graded based on technical proficiency (lack of technical errors), following the requirements outlined for each assignment, and musical creativity and imagination

Etude #1: Bridging Worlds

Preliminary score due 10/7 by 1:30PM (uploaded to Box or handed to me)

Final piece and updated score due 10/16 by 1:30PM

Using sound material recorded on a portable recorder, sounds from the Theremin, and/or the ARP Synthesizer, compose a short etude based on an original score. Utilize a DAW of your choice to modify the sounds and to mix the sounds together (you’re welcome to use whatever effects you’d like; we will discuss many in class, too). 

The final piece must be 3 to 5 minutes in duration (strictly). One of the issues you must confront is the apparent disconnect between sounds of musique concrète and elektronische musik. You are welcome, encouraged in fact, to simply use the sounds you have already recorded for our previous assignments.

A draft of your score is to be turned in at the beginning of class on October 7th. It may be made on paper or be digital. It should include a timeline. Everything else is up to you - text, graphics, photos, drawings, musical notation, and so on. But whatever you use, it should help me grasp what the music might be like. Find some way of notating volume, timbre, density, duration, cadence, form, stereo field, acoustic space, and so on. Like any other musical score, it will change and mutate during your compositional process. You must register the musical changes on the score. The score is not merely a starting point, it should match the finished version of the music. 

Label your final mix LastnameFirstname_bridgingworlds

Etude #2: Three Spaces and a Silence

(Full assignment will be revealed at assignment date)