Welcome to the Fall Syllabus page for Music, Math, and Motion
Fall Syllabus |
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Week 1: Sept 30 |
Tuesday in SEM 2 D1105 |
Loy: Chap 1 (Music & Sound); Ch.5 (Geometrical Basis of Sound) p.129-141 Fauvel (Music & Sound) Intro (p.1-10), Ch.3 (The science of musical sound) |
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| Seminar Reading (in class - bring your text): Galileo (Bertolt Brecht) | |||
Thursday in Computer Center |
Computer Music workshop (Simple Waveforms) - meet in Library basement for first hour. Optional: start reading Dodge & Oalline. | ||
Friday in CAL (Lab II) |
Seminar (read this beforehand): Learning through Writing Together, by Don Finkel Moodle and team workshops |
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4 October is Voter Registration Deadline - you can Register online. (The last WA State Governer's election was decided by fewer than 200 votes - your vote counts!) |
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Special events (be there!): *Sunday 5 Oct: Performance by Prince Myshkins, 8 pm, Recital Hall (on campus); *Monday 6 Oct: 10 am - noon: Special Lecture by Rick Burkhardt, COM 117: The complexity a musical idea requires |
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Week 2: Oct 7 |
Tuesday: |
Read Loy Ch. 4.1-8,13,14,18-25 (Physical Basis of Sound) Read Fauvel Ch.9 (Microtones and Projective Planes) Discuss Oscillations and Fourier analysis in the natural world |
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| Seminar on Galileo (see DVD on reserve in Library beforehand) | |||
| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop (Sequences, Envelopes,Tuning Systems); Read Loy Ch.3.1-4 (Fundamental mathematics of Tuning Systems) | ||
| Friday: | Physics of Sound workshop #1: Oscillations | ||
Week 3: Oct 14 |
Tuesday: |
Loy: Ch. 8 (Vibrating Systems) (p.239-249) Discuss Physics of Sound workshop |
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| Seminar Reading: Contact (Carl Sagan) | |||
| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop (amplitude modulation) read Loy Chap 2.8-9 (Timbre) | ||
| Friday: | Seminar Reading: Contact (Carl Sagan) | ||
| Physics of Sound workshop #2: each team bring an instrument | |||
Week 4: Oct 21 |
Tuesday: | Loy Ch.7 (Intro to Acoustics) (p.199-216) | |
| Movie: Contact (Carl Sagan) | |||
Wed.22.Oct: Campus Sustainability Day - check out the events |
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| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop (frequency modulation) Read Chowning article on FM | ||
| Friday: | Seminar: Harding selections on strong objectivity, race/gender issues in science Research workshop #1 |
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| Week 5: Oct 28 | Tuesday: | Read Loy Ch.9.7
(Randomness) Read Fauvel Ch.8 (Composing with numbers) Discuss Quantum Mechanics Seminar Reading: Copenhagen |
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| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop (compositional decision-making; random number generators) | ||
| Friday: | Copenhagen (DVD) and Research workshop #2 | ||
| Nov.1 | Saturday | Team creative/research Proposal due by noon | |
| Nov.2 | Sunday | Evaluations of teammates due by noon to your seminar faculty | |
| Week 6: Nov 4 | Tuesday | mid-quarter conferences, possible online midterm | |
| Nov.9 | Sunday | Individual composition projects due | |
No class rest of week (Faculty retreat) |
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| Week 7: Nov 11 | Tuesday: | Lecture on Beethoven's Piano Concerto #4 and Musical Cosmology | |
| Seminar reading: Wigner: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics; Articles about Sound and the Cosmos Read Fauvel Ch.2 (Musical Cosmology) |
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| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop (granular synthesis, probability, stochastics) read Gabor article | ||
| Friday: | Guest composer Lawrence Fritts on Mathematics as a Compositional Tool Read Fauvel Ch.10 (Composing with Fractals) Physics of Sound Workshop #3: Primordial acoustic oscillations |
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| Nov 16 | Sunday | Olympia Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 and Symphony #7 | |
| Week 8:Nov 18 | Tuesday: | Loy Ch.8 (Vibrating Systems) (p.263-277) | |
| Seminar reading: Harmonograph; Article(s) about ringing stars |
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| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop (linear waveform transformation) Ashby article on Change | ||
| Friday: | Research Workshop #3 | ||
Nov 24 |
Thanksgiving Week holiday |
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| Week 9: | Dec 2 | Tuesday: | Seminar Reading: 1. Lem: His Master's Voice and 2. Article by Weaver: The Mathematical Theory of Information (Shannon article optional) |
| Thursday & Friday: | 1. Perform your Project for and 2. Present your research to faculty, to prepare for next week (sign up in advance on SignUpSheets on Moodle) | ||
| Week 10 | Dec 9 | Tuesday NOON | Final run-through on creative/research projects |
| Thus-Friday: | Present your creative/research projects at Maple Lane Juvenile Facility | ||
| Dec 13 | Saturday: | email your teammate evaluations to your seminar faculty by NOON | |
| Evals: | Dec 15-16: Evaluation conferences are required only for students not continuing in the program. See Sign-up sheets and portfolio guidelines. | ||
Reading for winter break : Dr. Faustus by Thomas Mann Optional background reading: Faust by Christopher Marlowe (not Goethe) |
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