Music 499 E: Proseminar

ADVANCED COMPUTER MUSIC

(Fall 2005 and Spring 2005)

Time: Fall - Monday 3-5 pm
Room: Computer Music Project (Room 5045)
Credit: 2 or 4 hrs.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor

This seminar is open to students who have an interest in Computer Music (digital sample synthesis, computer-assisted composition, automatic music notation, etc.) as well as in the visualization of music and sonification of complex scientific data. Good C++ programming skills are required.

A number of software applications available in Computer Music Project and at the Argonne National Laboratory were developed as class projects in this seminar. Among them:

• DIASS, a Digital Istrument for Additive Sound Synthesis
• a parallel version of the Music 4C sound synthesis language
• DISCO
• GrafChord, a automatic music notation program
• M4CAVE, a program for visualization of music written in OpenGL

Weekly meetings also discuss related techniques and/or software, new ideas in sciences which might be applied to music. In the past, topics have included: Psychoacoustics, Algorithms for Composition, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, AI techniques, graphics packages, and others.

The Experimental Music Studios of the University of Ilinois Computer Music Project equipment will be available to the participants. Depending on the type of project they might also gain access to other facilities on campus.

See also:

• Computer Music Courses Using Supercomputers (with Robin Bargar, Ben Cox, and David Kelley), Proc. 1990 Int'l Computer Music Conference , (Glasgow, Scotland; September 1990), International Computer Music Association, San Francisco, CA, 1990, pp. 39-42.
• Music 199T: Open Undergraduate Seminar

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