Numbers: Music and Tone

Description

This course will examine music theory and musical acoustics through the lens of the Max/MSP/Jitter programming environment. Students will learn how musical ideas can be expressed and manipulated using numbers, simple mathematics, and logic. We will analyze and work with musical scales, intervals, chords as well as 20th century concepts of musical organization. We will explore the overtone series and its relationship to timbre using the building blocks of musical sound to generate complex tones. Students will create compositions that explore tone-color and tuning systems.