CPT431 Fall 2015

Music and Audio Computing

Week 1

  • Sep-1 : Course Overview [pdf]
  • Sep-3 : Introduction to Web Audio (Guest Lecturer: Keunhyoung Kim, GSCT Ph.D. Student) [pdf]

Week 2

  • Sep-8 / Sep-10 : Basic Acoustics [pdf]
  • Readings
    • An Introduction to Music Technology: Chapter 1 and 2
    • Introduction to Computer Music: Chapter 1

Week 3

Week 4

  • Sep-22 : Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) [pdf]
  • Sep-24 : Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) and Feature Extraction [pdf]
  • Matlab: STFT examples
  • Readings
    • Introduction to Computer Music: Chapter 3

Week 5

Week 6

  • Oct-6 : Introduction to Sound Processing and Digital Filters [pdf]
  • Oct-8 : Digital Filters - Linear Time-Invariant System and Convolution (Cont'd)
  • Matlab: Filter Examples
  • Readings
    • An Introduction to Music Technology: Chapter 4
    • Introduction to Computer Music: Chapter 4

Week 7

Week 8

  • Oct-20 : Midterm
  • Oct-22 : Midterm Break

Week 9

Week 10

  • Nov-3 : Sound Synthesis Overview [pdf]
  • Nov-5 : Additive and Subtractive Synthesis
  • Mini Project #2 (Due Nov-12)
  • Readings
    • An Introduction to Music Technology: Chapter 11, 12
    • Introduction to Computer Music: Chapter 5

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

  • Dec-1 : Music Information Retrieval [pdf]
  • Dec-3 : Music Interface [pdf]

Week 15

  • Dec-8 : (Guest Lecture) Jangwon Lee (Ph.D student) - Musical Gesture Mapping on Touchscreen Devices
  • Dec-10 : (Guest Lecture) Seunghun Kim (Ph.D student) - Physical Modeling of Geomungo

Week 16

  • Dec-15 : Break (final preparation)
  • Dec-17 : Final Presentation (1pm - 4pm) | project webpage submission due: Dec-18