Music 390b: Terms To Know

Genres

musique concrete, tape music, sound collage, electroacoustic music, electronic music,

computer-generated music, plunderphonics, ambient music, electronica

People

Laurie Anderson, Aphex Twin, Luciano Berio, David Byrne, DJ Spooky, Brian Eno, Brad Garton, Kraftwerk, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Paul Lansky,

Hugh LeCaine, John Oswald, Steve Reich, Pierre Schaeffer, Raymond Scott, Si Begg, Squarepusher, Tangerine Dream, Iannis Xenakis

Sound Properties

Sound, musical acoustics, psychoacoustics

Analog Audio/Recording

Sound recording, magnetic recording, tape recorder, reel-to-reel audio tape recording, magnetic tape,

audio tape length and thickness, audio editing, tape editing, tape delay, tape loop

Digital Audio/Recording

Analog sound vs. digital sound, digital audio, digital recording, Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem

Digital Sound Effect Techniques

Echo, reverberation, pitch shift, time stretching ........

MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIDI

Digital Sampling

Sampling, sampler, music workstation

Digital Sequencing

Music sequencer, music workstation

Digital Synthesis

Sound synthesis, electronic musical instrument