MUSIC 80R SYLLABUS – Winter 2008
Tuesday and Thursday 12 Noon – 1:45 p.m. in Music Center 101

Week	Topic	Tuesday	Thursday	Assignments to be done by Tuesday that week
1/8-10	Introduction to Music 80R	• Class profile, enrollment, lab schedule, course goals, requirements, textbook and format, brief history of the World Wide Web and current state of the Internet; preparation for research and list of midterm topics	• Browser Orientation, different platforms, system softwares, and browser plug-ins, searching techniques (WorldCat, JSTOR, Grove, Naxos)	read: David Bryne’s Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists – and Megastars read: A Little History of the WWW read: Browser Compatibility Tutorial
1/15-17	WWW: State of the Art	• Realtime online music collaboration, telepresence, telematics, NINJAM, eJamming, Skype, JackTrip (Internet 2) •  Bring gear for in-class jam	• State of the Art websites: vector animations (flash), interaction (auracle), distribution (pandora), gaming, sonification (monkey), radio (TOS) Guest Speaker: James Khazar (danm grad and formerly with macromedia)	• Read:Internet Music • Read:Procedures and Approaches in Telepresent Music Improvisation • Find: examples of each of the type of website listed in the box to the left
1/22-24	Digital Audio	• Demo Audacity	• Discussion of sound and digital audio, including compression techniques. • Guest Speaker: Wayne Jackson (Beatnik)	•  Read: Textbook Ch. 1 (sound design) and Ch. 2 (digital audio) • Download/install Audacity and Reaper
1/29-31	SoundDesign	• designing and producing background sound, sonifications and other effects	•  exercise audio apps	•  Read Textbook Ch. 3 (recording) and Ch. 4 (optimization) • develop midterm topic area and begin midterm project (collecting bookmarks and writing summaries of each one , plus 10 newsgroups)
2/5-7	Downloadable audio	• Students announce midterm topic • DRM, Creative Commons, law and ethics re. ‘repurposing’ of music and audio, and history of musical ‘borrowing’, mashups Guest Speaker: Aphid Stern (DANM grad and co-creator of Metavid)	• download audio files and process •QUIZ Ch.1-4, and all material from lectures NO MAKEUPS!	•  Practice downloading audio files, and setting up your browser for as many formats as possible (wav, mp3, ogg) • continue working on midterm project
2/12-14	Streaming audio and Podcasts	• Streaming techniques and formats (Real, Shockwave, Quicktime and m3u) • musical copyright and the internet (watermark)	• Download players (Real, QT, Shockwave) • tune in to streaming audio radio stations as well as ambient sonifications • podcasting	• Read chapters 5, 6 and 8 (all on streaming) •  Continue to download audio files and processing them
2/19-21	Midterm projects	• students present midterm projects	• students present midterm projects	•  midterm projects finished! • Develop final project proposal
2/26-28	MIDI on the web	• MIDIfiles, Internet MIDI synths, basics of MIDI • General MIDI (GM, GS, XG), DLS • Students declare final project and begin production	• MIDI applications • download MIDIfiles and process	•  Read chapter 10 (MIDI) in text •  Begin production on final project
3/4-6	Sonification and Interactivity	• Guest speaker: James Khazar does a follow-up session on audio for Flash (formerly with Macromedia) • Interactivity and web page sonification - working with Flash as well as HTML	•QUIZ Ch.5,6,8,10, and all material from lectures NO MAKEUPS!	• STUDY FOR QUIZ! • Work on Final projects
3/11-13	Final Projects Uploaded by: March 19	work on/present final projects	LAST CLASS: work on/present final projects	work on final projects