Course Information

Meeting Time and Place

Lecture: Tuesday 2:00PM - 4:50PM, CPMC 367.

Office hours: CPMC 233 (my office) by appointment.

Course Description

This seminar introduces methods for discrete-time modelling of musical acoustic systems and delay-based audio effects. Covered topics, including filters, delay lines, flanging, aritificial reverb, sampled traveling waves, musical instrument acoustics/modeling, and acoustic measurement. Theory will be consolidated with practical programming assignments in Matlab.

Prerequisites

Music 170, 171 and 172, or equivalent, or permission by instructor.

Grading

• Assignments (6 total, 10% each) 60%
• Class participation 10%
• Paper presentation 10%
• Project 20%

Required Textbooks

• Music 206 on-line notes.

Resources

Matlab is available in the Music Lab, the Library, the Price Center, and any number of labs across the campus managed by ACMS. A list of the general access labs on campus is available here.

Reference

• The Physics of Musical Instruments Second Edition, by Neville Fletcher and Thomas Rossing.