Sound, Digital Sound, and Massive Sound Media

September, 2005

Sophomore College with Chris Chafe, Utsav Sethi, Gabe Davis

with Sasha Letiman and many Guests

Projects

Allegra Shum

Exploratorium-inspired Sound Wave Demonstration Device

Alison Buki and Jieun Oh

Dreams and Transfiguration: the Music of the Subconscious



Alex Hegyi

AUnique Synthesizer

Noah Burbank

An Afternoon on The Pequod


Bernie Rihn

Piece

Elizabeth Joyce

A Capella, A Musical Editing Smorgasbord



Kevin Choo, David Fenning, & Derek Ramsey

A FUNKY THANG

John Stoecker and Justin Chung

Visualizations



Soco hydroinstrument and hydrophone recordings



September 2005

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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6 Knoll

7 Knoll

8 Knoll / Wilbur

9 Roble Pool / Knoll

10 read Huron working in field of music cognition

6pm Concert of Indian Classical Music, Cubberly Community Center, Palo Alto, meet cars at 5:30 front of Branner

Listening

Course overview


Room acoustics

Turenas

Knoll tour

New Orleans music retrospective (Gabe)

11:30 Hydrophone building in old Wilbur Maxlab


10am meet at pool with instrument prototypes and hydrophones

Short intro to Indian Classical (Utsav)


hydroinstrument teams get busy

wave pix assignment

hydroinstrument teams finish prototypes

Pd lab #1 basics

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12 Knoll

13 Hopkins

14 Hopkins and Santa Cruz

15 Knoll

16 Knoll

17 read one article from Krause

Underwater acoustics

Whale sound lecture (Sasha)

11am IR controller demo Lawrence Fyfe

11:30 Gabe Turow trance music project


10am meet cars w/ sleeping bags, warm clothes, hydro-insts., hydrophones

12pm box lunches, instrument recordings

3pm lab tour

4pm snapping shrimp

8pm DVDs

Illusions (Utsav)

Timescales

Algorithmic music

MATLAB scripts for hydrophone evaluations


10am Vinod Menon, fMRI music cognition studies at Stanford

11am Jose Rio-Pareja, Pd pathces and recent performance of Phillippe Manoury's Jupiter


9am whale boat trip for bio recordings

4pm Universal Audio tour, SC








Pd lab #3 efx patch

8:30pm Concert with Kirk Hammett (Metallica), FLUX, and St. Lawrence String Quartet , Herbst Theatre, SF

Roberto Morales performance of Cenzontle, Knoll

BBQ chez CC

Pd lab #2 modulation exs.

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19 Knoll / Med School

20 Exploratorium / Glen Helen (last mtg.)

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SLEEP... all day

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...group or individual projects to complete before quarter begins

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Reason demo (Gabe)

11am Gait Lab, Med. Sch.


9:30am leave for Exploratorium

12pm box lunches

Visit with Bernie Krause and Wilderness sounds archive





Email wave picture... so it will end up here

Underwater sound(preparation for Monterey) Michael Gurevich, underwater acoustics notes

Primer from NOAA , whale sound (.mp3), and a URO Project by John Maurer for underwater simulation of Boombox-falling-in-pool (.mp3)

shrimp sound (explosions) close-up movies

Catalogs of sound sources, classification of musical instruments