Robert Willey
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Getting Started With Electronic Music:
​An Open Course in Music Technology

Robert Willey
ATMI 2019 Conference

Background​
  • Music Industry class
    • Teachers Guide
    • Textbook
  • Music Production book
    • 11 collaborators
    • 73 instructional videos
  • History of Rock and Roll
    • Playlists
  • Interviews
  • Music productions
  • Ukulele singalongs
  • Apps for playing internet radio
  • Conlon Nancarrow
  • Scott Joplin
  • Other conference presentations
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Class Setup
  • Canvas site overview
  • Canvas course archive
  • Software
    • Audacity 
      • Instructions on how to add mp3 capabilities by
        adding the LameLib library
    • Sequencing
      • Logic Pro
      • Pro Tools First - free
      • Studio One Prime - free
    • Noteflight
    • Shotcut​
  • Specifications Grading system, token request form
  • Vocabulary
  • Teacher's models of completed projects
  • Version 1 of this guide, from Spring 2017 class
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Class Materials
Module I (5 weeks) Digital audio sound manipulation: acoustics, digital audio, sampling, pioneers of electroacoustic music, improvisation, and Audacity software. Project: Musique Concrète Étude
  • Specifications
    • Example of a finished project
    • What is an étude?
  • Pretest
  • Musique concrète
    • The Liberation of Sound - Edgard Varèse (origin of the definition of music as "organized sound")
  • Student source sounds​​
  • Acoustics
    • Dan Russell’s Acoustics and Vibration Animations
    • The Doppler Effect and Sonic Booms
  • Lab 1: Record your sound source and upload it to freesound.org
    • freesound.org
  • Lab 2: Create a Weebly portfolio and incorporate your sound source
  • Left-right-center panning
  • Audacity hacks
    • How to add labels in Audacity
    • Files and folders
  • SoundCloud
    • How to upload
    • Custom artwork
  • How to take a screenshot
  • Creative Commons
  • Review of laws related to sampling
  • Sonic Visualiser is designed to help study recorded music
Module II (5 weeks) MIDI arranging and sequencing: MIDI controllers, GM, expression, automation, orchestration, drum parts, pioneers of synthesizer performance, and Logic software. Project: MIDI Arrangement
  • Specifications
  • Expression: Clara Rockmore, Theremin virtuoso
    • Spotify playlist
    • YouTube video: Saint Saens, El Cisne
    • Demonstration on how to play the theremin
  • What does a synthesizer do?
    • Keith Emerson at Moogfest
    •  Walter Carlos, Moog synthesizer
  • The first synthesizers
    • Introduction to pipe organ
    • The Telharmonium
  • What’s an oscillator?
    • 50 Hz sawtooth wave
    • 220 Hz square wave
  • What is a low frequency oscillator?
    • 20 Hz to 20 kHz
    • Vibrato
  • What is MIDI?
  • Pop quiz
  • Lab 1: Sequencing
    • Noteflight score for “Stand By Me”
  • Lab 2: Add expression to a melody
    • "On Top of Old Smokey" melody
  • Lab 3 MIDI editing [ Logic session ] 
  • Subtractive synthesis
    • Dynamic spectra
    • Changing the cutoff frequency
    • ADSR
      • attack
      • decay
      • sustain
      • release
  • Lab 4: Chameleon [ Logic session ] 
    • Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man [ video ]
  • ​Compression
  • Lab 5: Mixing
  • Feedback form for students to make comments on each other’s work​​
Module III (3 weeks) Music notation: arranging, lead sheet notation, MIDI files, interoperability, and Noteflight software. Project: Notated Score
  • Specifications
  • Noteflight
    • ​Getting started with the note editor
    • How to make a lead sheet
    • How to divide words in Noteflight
    • Moving from Noteflight to Logic
  • Lab: "Amazing Grace" [ score ]
Module IV (3 weeks) Music video: music for video, video for music, composing shots, soundtracks, editing, and iMovie/Shotcut software. Project: Music Video
  • Specifications
  • Reading: Video Direction as an Application of the Study of Music
  • ​Free footage
  • Lab 1: ​Video Editing Exercise
    • ​Shotcut guide
    • How finished sequence might look
  • Lab 2: Special effects
    • Source material
    • How finished sequence might look​
  • Repeat pretest
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Results
  • Portfolios
  • Tyler Kuntz:
    • Musique concrète
    • MIDI arrangement
    • Score notation
    • Music video

Concert
  • Planetarium concert​

©2019 Robert Willey
Email: [email protected]
Feel free this material to use for non-profit educational purposes.


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