Introduction to Music Technology – MUS 1800

Winter 2004

Instructor: Bryan Pardo: M.Sc. 1993, M. Mus. 2001, and Ph.D. (I hope) 2004

(734) 369-3207, bryanp@umich.edu

Class Hours: Mondays (7:00 pm-9:00 pm), 1/12/2004 to 4/19/2004, MAIN ADMIN 1603

Office Hours: Mondays 6:30pm – 7:00pm, 9:00pm – 9:30pm

Class Web page: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bryanp/music1800.html

Useful Manuals: (these are hyperlinks on the webpage)

Manual for the Behringer 602 Mixing Console

Manual for the Alesis QS 6.2 Synthesizer

Manual for the MIDIMAN Midisport 2x2 MIDI interface

Manual for Cubasis SL (to be provided when software arrives)

These Sibelius tutorials

http://homepages.dordt.edu/~hduitman/musictech/sibelius.htm

http://clem.mscd.edu/~worster/1650/Tutorials/sibeliushome.html

Required

Equipment: A pair of headphones

                                 A way to save your data and music (a pack of CD-Rs or CD-RWs is good)

Required

Attitude: A flexible attitude about what music is

A willingness to use the Internet and read manuals

Patience with yourself and with the equipment

Course

Objectives: Get to understand and use:

a mixing board

a MIDI keyboard and MIDI interface

a MIDI Sequencer

music notation software

digital audio effects (reverb, EQ, distortion)

multitrack digital recording software

CD burning software

Expose you to:

concepts about digital recording (Nyquist, bit-rates, etc.)

Styles of electronic music (techno, musique concrete, etc.)

Ways to distribute your music electronically

Have you make:

one thing you think is cool.

Grading: Activity Points

Four quizzes (10% each) 40 %

Five assignments (10% each) 50 %

Class Participation 10 %

Just for being you 10 %

______

Total 110 %

Since you need 100% to be perfect, this implies that

you can fail to hand in or do one assignment or quiz

and can still get the maximum grade.

COURSE SCHEDULE

Date	Topics	Helpful Reading	Assignment Due
January 12	Intro to the class Working a mixing board What is Electronic Music?	The Wikipedia entry on Electronic Music
January 19	Burning CDs the Alesis Keyboard the Midisport MIDI interface Electronic music styles	The equipment manuals Wikipedia list of electronic music genres
January 26	Quiz 1 Sibelius: Music Notation Electronic music styles	The Sibelius tutorials	QUIZ 1: connecting the equipment.
February 2	Sibelius: Music Notation MIDI and sequencing	The “What is MIDI?” tutorial
February 9	MIDI and sequencing	The midi sequencer tutorial	HW 1: Music Notation project
February 16	HW1 Electronic music style reports MIDI and sequencing	More midi tutorials	HW 2: 5-10 minute oral/audio report on style or musician
February 23	Quiz 2 Digital Audio: Sampling, Nyquist, bit-depth	A brief explanation of digital audio	QUIZ 2: MIDI
March 1	SPRING BREAK	-----------	-----
March 8	Play MIDI projects for class Digital Audio: Spectrograms, File formats Using equalization	TBA	HW 3: MIDI project
March 15	Digital Audio: Using mltitrack recording Electronic music style reports	TBA	HW 4: 5-10 minute oral/audio report on style or musician
March 22	Quiz 3 Digital Audio: Compression/reverb	TBA	QUIZ 3: Digital Audio
March 29	Digital Audio: more signal processing Progress reports on Dig. Audio project	TBA
April 5	Quiz 4 Getting your music out there: MP3, web distribution, CD baby, etc.	TBA	QUIZ 4: Recognizing DSP effects
April 12	Interactive music systems, music IR	TBA
April 19	Play final projects.		HW 5: Digital Audio project