UNDERGRADUATE
MUSI3040 Electroacoustic Music
Course Type: disciplinary elective for music majors/minors, free elective for others
Prerequisite: either MUSI2085 or MUSI2067, or instructor’s consent.
For exchange students: equivalent to MUSI2085 or MUSI2067 at the home institution required.
Prerequisite: either MUSI2085 or MUSI2067, or instructor’s consent.
For exchange students: equivalent to MUSI2085 or MUSI2067 at the home institution required.
Instructor: Mr. Lawrence LAU
Semester: First Semester 2026/27
Time: 3:00pm – 4:50pm, Monday
Venue: RRT-11.01, Seminar Room
Semester: First Semester 2026/27
Time: 3:00pm – 4:50pm, Monday
Venue: RRT-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.
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%
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