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 Media Lab, Room 395
Department of Media
School of Art and Design
Aalto University
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This is an introduction course for the students to get familiar with the uses of computers in designing and processing sounds for interactive music performances/installations/compositions. Course gives opportunity to students to learn how to process and organize sounds in digital environment throughout different sonic experimentation strategies. Course focuses on very practical and everyday branch of physics and acoustics where students incorporate their everyday observations into the process of learning how physics and sound works. It also introduces digitizing and fundamentals of digital audio. Within the digital sound synthesis concept, the course explores several related topics; computer music basics (sampling and additive synthesis, multiple wave table, granular synthesis, subtractive synthesis), sonification process (transformation of information into sounds), mapping strategies, the spatial sound and music, digital instrument design as well as defining a method for basic and abstract analysis of input data. Sound Design and Interactive Music course is a project-based course. At the end of the course, students will submit and present their projects.
The course consists of lectures, exercises, reading materials, tutoring individual or group works. If it will be possible with the schedule, there will be a public performance organized for the students to perform and exhibit their course works.
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