You will study the history of musique concrete, electroacoustic composition and computer music.
You will learn techniques of computer sound synthesis using various audio processing packages.
You will develop environments for interactive performance
You will produce a completed piece of computer music.

Production and Presentation of a suitable piece of computer music 70% - Assessing Learning Outcomes 1 and 3
Production of a 1500 word report 30% - Assessing Learning Outcome 2

12 weeks x 3 hours per week, mix of lecture and tutorial sessions (groups of 20)

Manzo, V (2011). Max MSP Jitter for Music: A Practical Guide to Developing Interactive Music Systems for Eduaction and More. OUP, ISBN: 978 0199777686
Cipriani, A (2010). Electronic Music and Sound Design: Theory and Practice with Max MSP. Contempone, ISBN: 978 8890548406
Collins, N (2009). Introduction to Computer Music. Wiley, ISBN: 978 0470714553
Manning, P (2004). Electronic and Computer Music. OUP, ISBN: 0195170857
Boulanger R ed. (2000), The CSound Book, MIT Press, ISBN: 0262522616
Dodge, C, Jerse, T. (1997) Computer Music, Synthesis , Composition and Performance. Schrimer. ISBN: 0-02-864682-7
Russ, M. (2003) Sound Synthesis and Sampling. Focus Press. ISBN: 0240516923
Roads, C (1995) The Computer Music Tutorial. MIT Press. ISBN: 0262680823
Moore F,R (1998) Elements of Computer Music. Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0132525526
Miranda E (2001) Composing Music with Computers. Focus Press. ISBN: 0240515676
Kirk, R. Hunt, A. (1999) Digital Sound Processing for Music and Multimedia. Focus Press. ISBN: 0240515064
Chadabe, J. (1996) Electric Sound: the Past and Promise of Electronic Music. Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0133032310
Holmes, T. (2003). Electronic and Experimental Music. Routledge, ISBN: 0415936446
Wishart, T (1994) Audible Design. Wishart. ISBN: 095103137

University Apple Macintosh computers running appropriate music programming software (Max MSP, PD)

None.