Electronic Music Composition I

2-1-9 units · Graduate

Students develop basic skills in composition through weekly assignments focusing on contemporary computer music composition practices. Topics may include: audio sampling, digital signal processing, algorithmic and generative processes, virtual instruments, electronic music history, and emerging practices. Assignments utilize tools such as digital audio workstations, analog synthesizers, music programming environments, MIDI programming, mixing, and recording studio techniques. Students critique each other's work and respond to recordings drawn from sound art, experimental electronica, conventional and non-conventional classical electronic works, and popular music. Students taking graduate version complete different assignments. Limited to 15 per section; preference to Music Technology graduate students, Music majors, minors, and concentrators.