printer friendly pageMUSIC 221N: Deep Learning for Music and Audio
Seminar reviewing the development of deep-learning methods in music and audio fields.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
MUSIC 222: Sound in Space
Historical background, techniques and theory on the use of space in music composition and diffusion. Listening and analysis of relevant pieces. Experimental work in spatialization techniques leading to short studies to be diffused in concert at the end of the quarter.
Last offered: Winter 2019
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
MUSIC 223B: Sonic Experiments in Composition
The course will present post-1945 works with timbre serving as an organizing principle or compositional metaphor, in the context of historical works in which timbre plays a structural role. Composers considered may include: Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros and other American experimentalists; Scelsi and his influence on the French Spectral school; the first and subsequent generations of French Spectralism; and contemporary composers of experimental music such as Peter Ablinger. Topics will include: process and form; timbre in relation to time and space; harmonicity and noise; and the influence of analog and digital technology on instrumental composition. This course must be taken for a minimum of 3 units and a letter grade to be eligible for Ways credit for AII.
Last offered: Spring 2019
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
MUSIC 223C: Tradition, Experimentation, and Technology in String Quartet Composition and Performance
This course will explore string quartet composition and performance by focusing in on the act of composer-performer collaboration. It will investigate this relationship and its facets through the composition of a work for the Saint Lawrence String Quartet by Patricia Alessandrini based on the SLSQ's relationship with the Opus 76 quartets of Haydn employing Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, in addition to workshopping of student exercises and compositions. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the class as performers, composers, technologists, or musicologically, through analysis of the collaborative process informed by concepts such as agency, representation, interpretation, expression, and experimentation.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Alessandrini, P. (PI)
;
Theurer, M. (TA)
MUSIC 223D: Sound Practice: Embodiment and the Social
How can sound-making impact interpersonal relations and institutional practices? This class offers space to creatively re-think and challenge received relationships between artists, audiences, technologies, and environments. In class, we will create, perform, and analyze sound and music. We will explore sound¿s potential to catalyze social change via experimental and embodied approaches to sound-making. We will engage with sound practices that compose communal solidarity, augment and transform vocal identities, and potentially, alter how we listen to and live in the world. Readings/listenings include Björk, Maria Chavez, Donna Haraway, Pauline Oliveros, George Lewis, Meredith Monk, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hildegard Westerkamp, and Pamela Z.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-3
MUSIC 230: Advanced Orchestral Conducting
Advanced study of orchestral conducting through individual weekly meetings with the instructor. Develop skills in score reading and analysis, baton technique and the physical art of conducting, performance practice, and rehearsal technique. Expand knowledge of the orchestral repertoire through score study plus reading and listening assignments. This course is intended primarily for juniors, seniors, and graduate students with prior conducting experience. Prerequisites:
MUSIC 130B and
MUSIC 136, or two equivalent beginning and intermediate conducting courses. May be taken for credit a maximum of 6 times.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 24 units total)
Instructors:
Phillips, P. (PI)
MUSIC 231: Advanced Choral Conducting
Individual instruction continuing trajectory of
Music 130C. Focus on gestural technique and analysis of works by genre and historical period. May be repeated for credit a total of 8 times. Prerequisite: 130C.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
9 times
(up to 36 units total)
Instructors:
Sano, S. (PI)
MUSIC 236: Future Media, Media Archaeologies (ARTSTUDI 236)
Hand-on. Media technologies from origins to the recent past. Students create artworks based on Victorian era discoveries and inventions, early developments in electronic media, and orphaned technologies. Research, rediscover, invent, and create devices of wonder and impossible objects. Readings in history and theory. How and what media technologies mediate.
Last offered: Winter 2019
MUSIC 242K: Studies in Music of the Baroque: Handel the Cosmopolitan (MUSIC 142K)
Music history seminar on the operatic, sacred, and instrumental works of G.F. Handel as examples of the diversity, cosmopolitanism, expression, formal and technical features, and social uses of music in the first half of eighteenth century. Traces Handel¿s career from his native Germany to an elite Roman circle of musical connoisseurs, and to the Italian opera company he founded in London and his transformation of Italian opera into a new genre of English oratorio. By analyzing Handel¿s works in context, we examine the aesthetic, harmonic, and dramatic principles of the major European Baroque art-music genres. Prerequisites:
MUSIC 22,
MUSIC 41. (WIM at 4-unit level only.)
Last offered: Spring 2019
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