INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC MUSIC - MTC 362 001, Spring
2010.
Instructor:
Herbert Midgley
Phone:
Office 468-1197 or leave a message at 468-4602
Email :
hmidgley@sfasu.edu (Please use this email
not BlackBoard or my gmail account) Department Music
Webpage: www.herbertmidgley.com
Office Hours: Office Hours: MWF
11&1 T TH 12:15 & 4
Office:
Room 310 A Fine Arts Building., 3rd Floor inside the MIDI Lab
Class Time and Place : 12:30 pm 1:45 pm -T TH (Lecture 1st Hour)
(Lab and group work 2nd Hour) - FA 310
Course Description: 3 semester hours credit, 2 hours lecture per week, 2 hours laboratory
per week. Discussion of and
hands-on experience with tape recorders, mixers, synthesizers, microcomputer
and other equipment necessary to the production of electronic music. Some knowledge of music notation or
keyboard is helpful but not necessary.
May be repeated for credit.
Class Goals: The
goal of this class is for you to learn how to enjoy music by composing your own
music with the use of music technology.
Texts: No
text is required. The best way to learn about music technology is to get hands
on experience. All equipment manuals are available and you will learn through
them while at a computer.
Journal Notebook: You will need to keep a notebook
since technical explanations can be rather difficult to understand at first.
You will also need the notebook to keep a record of the sounds you're using for
your composition. The other purpose of Journal Notebook is so that you can keep
a log of lab hours that you work each week.
Class Attendance: I expect you to be present, and on time at all class
meetings. Three unexcused absences will cut your final grade by one letter,
four by two letters, etc. This includes lab sessions. You are responsible for all notes, power point presentations,
recordings, and films/videos presented in class. Due the size of this class, no
talking, sleeping, eating, reading newspapers, text messaging or cell phone use
during class will be tolerated. All of these activities disrupt the educational
process. If these common courtesies are not observed, you will be invited to
leave the class. NO
CELL PHONES OUT DURING CLASS!
I will take roll by having you turn in a paper on what
you learn the day of lecture. You
can not make this up, either you were in class or you were not.
You can not make up missed Group work and Skill
test. (Come to Class!)
Materials:
1) 4 CD-Rs to turn in your projects on or to take home
and listen to after a session and a DVD-R to burn your Music Video.
2)You will need one USB Thumb Drive if you want to back
up your data. These are available in the bookstore.
3) Journal Notebook
All Projects will be turn in CD and DVD format and
papers in a folder.
Grading: Grading
Scale:
Class Participation -25% 90-100=A
Mid-Term/paper -25% 80-89
=B
Final Project/paper- 25% 70-79
=C
Group Projects/paper - 25% 60-69
=D
00-59
=F
The Mid-Term project will be a 2-5 minute composition. It will be due the
week of mid-term. The Final project will
be a 3-10 minute composition will be due on the day of the final. These
projects should be original, composed and produced by you. You may want to
collaborate with somebody else on another project, but the mid-term and the final project should be only one person's work.
Frequently, some of you will get together and help each other and that's O.K. But I want to know that each of you
understands how to operate the computer, the RS-50 and the GarageBand sequencing program on the MAC. You may also use your
own equipment to do your projects,
but make sure you use it in conjunction with the equipment in the lab.
Attendance & Lab-time: You will need work on your for two or three hours of
lab time per week. You will be using head phones while you work in the lab. They're
very lightweight to help keep your neck from getting tired, but they're also
quite fragile. I will generally be around to help you if you have any problems
(and there will be quite a few at first) during your lab times. Don't hesitate
to ask me for help.
Please don't re-route (unplug, re-plug, de-plug, etc.) any equipment through
the Mixer. The next person to use the lab will have no idea of what's going on.
If you want to plug your own equipment into the mixer; there are some empty
ports. You will need MONO 1/4" jacks to patch in. Be sure and unplug your
equipment when you are finished each time and be careful not to knock anything
over!
This class may be repeated for credit.
Students with documented disabilities who need
course adaptations or accommodations please make an appointment with me as soon
as possible.
The syllabus may be amended at anytime due to the
overall performance of the class.
|
Week |
Topic |
|
Date |
|
1 |
Introduction to MIDI: internet Search on What is
MIDI |
|
January 26 |
|
2 |
GarageBand I Basics - Planning a Song |
|
February 3 |
|
3 |
GarageBand II Cut and Paste- Over Dub Recording |
|
February 9 |
|
4 |
GarageBand III Looping |
|
February 16 |
|
5 |
GarageBand IV Quantize- Midi Mixer |
|
February 23 |
|
6 |
GarageBand V Editing- Notation |
|
March 2 |
|
7 |
GarageBand VI Digital Audio Recording |
|
March 9 |
|
8 |
Midterm- Burn CD Digital Recording: iTunes |
|
March 23 |
|
9 |
GarageBand basics VII Digital Recording: Audacity I |
|
March 30 |
|
10 |
Digital Recording: Audacity II |
|
April 6 |
|
11 |
iMovie basics I - Planning a Music Video |
|
April 13 |
|
12 |
iMovie basics I Editing, Adding Music - Titles
Effects |
|
April 20 |
|
13 |
iMovie basics I - Compression & Music Video: Post on the Web |
|
April 27 |
|
14 |
Promote your Music Video. IDVD Part 1 |
|
April 27 |
|
15 |
iDVD I - Making a DVD Part 2 |
|
May 4 |
|
Final |
Final Paper: How can you use this Class in your
life? What did you learn from this Class? |
|
Day of the Final May 13 |
|
Projects |
|
|
Date Due |
|
1 |
|
What is Midi Web Search (1 page Essay) |
February 3 |
|
2 |
|
Song Review (1 page Essay) |
February 9 |
|
3 |
|
History of your Favorite Musical Artist or
Group/Band |
February 16 |
|
4 |
|
CD Review 1 (1 page Essay) |
February 23 |
|
5 |
|
The History of your Favorite Musical Genre |
March 2 |
|
6 |
25% |
Mid Term Project (2 plus minutes long) Paper on what did you learn from this project. 2
pages. |
March 9 |
|
7 |
|
How the music industry has changed since 1999? |
March 23 |
|
8 |
|
Group Project - Songwriting |
March 30 |
|
9 |
|
Music Video Review (1 page Essay) |
April 6 |
|
10 |
|
The History of Downloading Music. |
April 13 |
|
11 |
|
How to make your Music Video Viro. |
April 20 |
|
12 |
|
Music Video Review (1 page Essay) |
April 27 |
|
13 |
25% |
Group Project - Music Video and EP CD Make a Music Video and an EP CD with Cover. A Paper on what did you learn from this project. (We will watch all of the groupsą music videos in
class.) |
April 26 -Video and May 4 - CD |
|
14 |
25% |
Final Project - (3 plus minutes long.) Paper on what did you learn from this project. 2
pages. |
May 13 |
|
15 |
|
Final Paper: How can you use this Class in your
life? What did you learn from this Class? 2 pages. |
May 13 |
|
16 |
Up to 10% |
Extra Credit - CD reviews- papers- powerpoint-
sequences, music videos, songs etc |
May 13 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
17 |
25% |
Class Participation |
All Semester |
|
|
|
100% Class Attendance, Participation, Group Work |
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