Week 9: October 27—November 2, Phelps 207

Monday: Basic Digital Synthesis I: Additive, Subtractive and Granular syntheses

Readings:

  • Subtractive Synthesis. Snoman: Basic Synthesis (pp. 58—72)
  • Granular Synthesis. Snoman: Basic Synthesis (pp. 74—75)
  • On-line article: T. Holmes: Chapter 1 (pp. 24—25). To view these articles, log in to smb://unison.yu.yale.edu/content server, using your NetID and password. Then go to: Music 295a Course Materials: Readings
  • Sound Unbound: Article 27

Listening:

  • Jean-Claude Risset
  • Kenneth Gaburo
  • Milton Babbit
  • Paul Lansky
  • Barry Truax
  • Horacio Vaggione
  • Curtis Roads

DUE: Assignment 3 (Recycle)

 

Wednesday: Trip-hop Music and Culture

Readings:

  • Snoman: Trip-hop (294—306)
  • Sound Unbound: Article 5 and7

Listening:

  • Massive Attack
  • Portishead
  • Tricky
  • Bjork
  • Coldcut
  • DJ Shadow

Lab Session 1     Hours TBA, YalMusT Lab, Studio B16A, 143 Elm Street

Creating loops in ReCycle I

Reading: ReCycle manual