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MUSI3040 Electroacoustic Music
Course Type: disciplinary elective for music majors/minors, free elective for others
Prerequisite: MUSI2085 or instructor’s consent
Instructor: Mr. Lawrence LAU
Semester: First Semester 2024/25
Time: 3:30pm–5:20pm, Monday
Venue: CRT-11.01 Seminar Room
This course explores both historical and current creative approaches in electroacoustic music through a variety of research and composition projects. Composers, repertoires, techniques, stylistic and aesthetic trends from approximately 1900 to present will be covered.
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Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
  • demonstrate an understanding of the historical and aesthetic aspect of electroacoustic music;
  • demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge of electroacoustic music to own compositions.
Presentations (EAM composers and repertoire) 10%
In-class Quizzes 10%
Class exercises participation 10%
Composition I (fixed media) 30%
Composition II (Interactive, live performance) 40%
  • introduction to electroacoustic music
  • digital audio basics & applications
  • analog audio basics & applications
  • history of EAM - prominent composers and their music
  • analog electronic music
  • sound installation & sculpture
  • sound art - mechanism & algorithm
  • sound art - materiality & sound objects
  • digital Revolution and Interactivity:evolution of controllers and systems
  • DAWs - controllers & MIDI programming  
  • programming for interactive sound: Max/MSP basics
  • ubiquitous music
  • Michel Chion, Audio-vision
  • Peter Manning, Electronic and Computer Music
  • Christoph Cox & Daniel Warner,ed., Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
  • Salomé Voegelin, Listening toNoise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
  • Nicolas Collins, Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking
  • Keller, D., Lazzarini, V., & Pimenta, M. S.(Eds.), Ubiquitous Music
  • Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat - A History of Sound in Arts