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)
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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)
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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.)
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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.)
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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)
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9/30 \
HW: Reading 10 (Voltage-Controlled Synthesis) Assignment 9 (More ARP)
(No Class 10/2)
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October
10/7 \ Reading 11 (Excessive Audio Levels), Assignment 10 (More Arp)
10/9 \ Reading 12 (Contemporary Classical + Experimental Music), Assignment 11 (Counting Systems)
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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)
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🍂 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)
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November
11/4 \ Basic Digital Synthesis
HW: Reading 16 (Algorithmic Synthesis),
11/6 \ Frequency Domain with SPEAR
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11/11 \ MIDI, Software Synths, Awareness
11/13 \ SPEAR Review, Cables + Mixing Workshop
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11/18 \ Quiz 2 + Etude 2 Brainstorming
11/20 \ Transitions + Layers Assignment Walkthrough
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(No Class 11/25)
🍂 THanksgiving break (11/26 - 11/30) 🍂
December
12/2 \ Distortion + Glitch
12/4 \ Etude 2 Listening
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12/9 \ Final Exam - Listening + Take Home
12/11 \ ?