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Midterm Project
All 80R students
select a music topic to research on the web and provide a bookmark file
containing at least 25 excellent web sites which deal in some way with that
topic. Students should try to visit hundreds of sites to be able to produce a
short list of high quality URLs.
The goal is that
anyone trying to research the same topic should be able to have a thorough
knowledge of it just by visiting those web sites. If the 100 80R students
produce an average of 25 addresses, the document will produce 2500 up-to-date,
excellent resource bookmarks on a wide range of musical or audio topics.
Here's a list of
suggested topics: MP3 compression- copyright issues- live music collaboration-
ethics of musical 'borrowing'- soundtracks/scoring for film - soundfile
formats- web radio- sampling - sound applications- Mods/Trackers- International
MIDIfiles - the current state of the codec- fractals, chaos theory music- music
history- koans- auditory illusions/3D sound- java(scripts) - interactivity -
shockwave- webcasting- instrument manufacturers - MIDIfiles- digital audio.-
applets/helpers/plug ins- modern music composition- ethnomusicology -
soundfiles - soundfile editing
Students decide topics by February 5 - Midterm Projects due February 19
Projects consist of an html file with an opening summation of the topic and how
you approached it, a list of the web sites (w/URLs) and short comments, 50-100
words, regarding each site.
Also include at
least 10 newsgroups on the topic. Students sign up to present project work,
visiting 2 or 3 of their favorite sites from their research, or will write in
the blog about it.
Here's a suitable example of a midterm html document or page - it's in the right format, easy to read, but short on links - it also needs to add newsgroups.