September, 2003

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• 10am intro lecture --- analogies, hearing walls, vocal dimensions, categories of timbre, organize H₂0 instruments

• 5pm college BBQ

• homework --- build H₂0 instrument prototypes

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• 10am form up concert ensembles, crews

• 10:30am bus to Mark Applebaum's --- test H₂0 instrument prototypes (bring the works), hear Mark's music, check out hydrophones for Monterey trip

• 7pm college lecture, Geology Corner, Roberts, Chafe, & Wasow

• read --- Pierce text chapters 1,2,3,7,8, appendix A, Pierce The Nature of Musical Sound (in course reader)

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• 10am rehearsals (CCRMA)

• read --- Helmholtz, On the Sensation of Sound in General, Helmholtz, On the Composition of Vibrations (in course reader)

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• 10am tech crew load-in (meet at CCRMA)

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• 9am tech setup (Cantor)

• 2pm concert (indoors)

• 3-5pm concert outdoors,

• tech load-out until finished

• Quick primer on underwater sound: NOAA, John Maurer's URO Project

• ...more of John's underwater simulation project: Boombox-falling-in-pool (.mp3) and whale (.mp3)

• And Michael's Underwater Info

• And our repository of recordings – including new from 2003 --

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• 10am depart for Hopkins (dorm)

• snapping shrimp lab, hydroacoustics, whale songs

• Hopkins lab tours

• music and sound videos (The Conversation)

• dinner Taqueria del Mar

• sleep (651 & 675 Belden, at Lighthouse and David)

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• breakfast at First Awakening (across from Hopkins, 125 Oceanview)

• 9am audio rowboats, take impulses, record H₂0 instruments

• sonoluminescence

• edit recordings, measure speeds of sound

• dinner (Abalonetis?)

• more music and sound videos (Ghengis Blues, Cane Toads)

10

• labs (cont'd) or tidepools

• Monterey Bay aquarium (opt.)

• 2:30pm depart for Stanford

• read --- Shepard, Cognitive Psychology and Music, W. Chafe, The Nature of Consciousness

11

• 10am lecture

• read --- Huron, Foundations of Cognitive Musicology (Sumerian tablet, musical fragment, description also Ancient Chinese Flutes, musical fragment)

• 3:15 URP workshop

• 6:30 depart for SF World Music concert (dorm)

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• 10am lecture --- hearing and methods in psychoacoustics, music congnition, dissect stealth recordings

• run subjects (TBD)

• read --- text chapters 9 - 11, B, C

• homework --- find an image of sound and email to cc@ccrma by Monday

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• run subjects (TBD)

14

• read --- text chapter 14, C. Chafe, A Short History of Digital Sound Synthesis

• 7pm St. Lawrence String Quartet (Campbell)

15

• 10am lecture --- Katia on “Pd”

• Dolby Labs (1pm Stern p/u)

16

• 10am lecture --- techniques for synthesis, processing

• old and new instruments, Theremin, Telharmonium... physical models

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• 10am lecture --- Grace on “EoS”

• research projects --- http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/groups/edison/ http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/groups/soundwire/ fMRI & music

• 6pm --- last supper Compadre's 3877 El Camino Real Palo Alto