SCEN 1015: Creative Music Technology

Computers and Musical Creativity
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On-campus course
  • Computer Science
  • Humanities
  • Music
  • 11th
  • 12th
Credit-Bearing
2-Week Commuter Session: $2,295.00, 2-Week Residential Session: $5,595.00

This course introduces an array of tools, techniques and motivations associated with Contemporary Computer Music Composition and Programming. Students will gain familiarity with the Digital Music Studio and Audio Workstation environments as they prepare frequent short composition assignments. Compositional paradigms to be explored in the course include MIDI Arranging, Sampling and Audio Editing, Sound Spatialization, Sonification Techniques and Process Music. We will also explore basic sound synthesis techniques including FM synthesis, ring modulation, granular synthesis, additive and subtractive synthesis.