TECH 201 COURSE OUTLINE + SCHEDULE OF ASSIGNMENTS

The schedule will be updated with homework and slides after every class.

August

8/28 \ Overview of Topics + Syllabus, Introductions

Homework (HW): Complete TIMARA Start-of-Semester Action Items

Read Talbot-Smith Chapter 1 (e-mail me answers to questions 1-3 on page 13, with subject heading “Reading 1”)

Listen to Wire Recorder Piece by Halim El-Dabh and La Vie en Rose performed by Clara Rockmore

Assignment #1 (introduction)

September

9/2 \ Discuss Listening + Reading

HW: Read Talbot-Smith Chapter 2

Listen to Forbidden Planet: Overture by Bebe & Louis Barron (listening guide), and Pines of Rome by Resphigi (score)

Assignment #2 (advice for class)

9/4 \ Discuss Listening + Reading

HW: listening: Presque Rien No. 1, Lockwood, reading: How Music Works by Byrne, Creation in Reverse

Assignment #3 (field recordings)

9/9 \ Discuss Listening + Reading

HW: listening:  (?), reading: Thom Holmes, early electronic music

Assignment #3 cont.

9/11 \ Working with DAWs

listening: etude aux chemin de fer, sidharta, reading: #5, More Holmes,  more early.

Assignment #4 (DAW Intro.)

9/16 \ Theremin + Mic Recording

HW: Listening: Studie II, Red Bird, reading: Elektronische Musik history (reading 6)

Assignment #5 (Theremin and Mic Recording)

9/18 \  ARP Basics

HW: Reading 7 (Intro. To Analog Synthesis), Assignment 6 (ARP Intro.)

9/23 \ ARP + Automation

HW: Reading 8 (Holmes, Technical Analog Synthesis), Assignment 7 (Automation Data)

9/25 \ Etude 1 Assigned

HW: Reading 9 (More Analog Synthesis), Assignment 8 (Movie Review - audio technology)

9/30 \

HW: Reading 10 (Voltage-Controlled Synthesis) Assignment 9 (More ARP)

(No Class 10/2)

October

10/7 \ Reading 11 (Excessive Audio Levels), Assignment 10 (More Arp)

10/9 \ Reading 12 (Contemporary Classical + Experimental Music), Assignment 11 (Counting Systems)

10/14 \ Midterm Exam | Etude 1 Due

Reading 13 (Ambient + Free Jazz), Assignment 12 (Etude #1 Remix)

10/16 \ Reading 14 (Rock, Space Pop, Turntablism), Assignment 13 (No Input Mixing)

🍂 FALL break (10/18 - 10/26) 🍂

10/28 \ Software FX + Plug-in Automation

Reading 15 (Digital Audio Introduction)

10/30 🎃 \ Reading 16 (Women in Audio)

November

11/4 \ Basic Digital Synthesis

HW: Reading 16 (Algorithmic Synthesis), 

11/6 \ Frequency Domain with SPEAR

11/11 \ MIDI, Software Synths, Awareness

11/13 \ SPEAR Review, Cables + Mixing Workshop

11/18 \ Quiz 2 + Etude 2 Brainstorming

11/20 \ Transitions + Layers Assignment Walkthrough

(No Class 11/25)

🍂 THanksgiving break (11/26 - 11/30) 🍂

December

12/2 \ Distortion + Glitch

12/4 \ Etude 2 Listening

12/9 \ Final Exam - Listening + Take Home

12/11 \ ?

…GO FORTH AND SPREAD THE WORD OF ELECTROnic MUSIC 🔊