Check out the EMDM Courses for Spring 2021!

The upcoming semester is going to be a fun one if you are into Music Technology! Here are the various course offerings that entangle with EMDM in Spring of 2021.

MUS 2700 – Intro to Music Technology [Dr. Berdahl]

• Introduction to contemporary technologies for music composition, performance, and publishing.
• Basic audio production using a DAW and portable recorders
• Basic video production including lighting, recording and editing.
• Basic web site design and deployment to position yourself at the start of your career.

MUS 2745 – Intro to Computer Music [GTAs Austin Franklin & Dylan Burchett]

• DAWs, Recording/Editing, composing, sound design
• Culminates in a concert of works at the Really, Really New Music Marathon.

MUS 3152/7053 – Applied Electroacoustic Music [Dr. Allison & Dr. Berdahl]

• define and compose works incorporating -or creating- technology. (Essentially composition on electricity)
• Pre-requisite of MUS 2745 (or by permission of instructor)
• Culminates in a performance of the technology you created at the Really, Really New Music Marathon.

MUS 7746 – Research Seminar in Experimental Music & Digital Media [Dr. Allison]

• Topic: Music, Web and Net Art
• We explore interesting new tools, everyone develops a research project exploring creative uses of said tools, and produces a research paper for NIME, ICMC, WAC, TEI or other appropriate venue.

ART 4059 – Digital Media Capstone course [Dr. Berdahl (EMDM) and Gabriel DeSouza (Engineering)]

• Everyone in the capstone comes from different fields.
• They develop intermedia project proposals, split into groups and produce them by the end of the semester.
• The idea is that you capitalize on the strengths and abilities of everyone in your team and create a novel project…. much like the digital media industry.

CSC 2463 – Programming Digital Media [GTAs Tate Carson & Simron Thapa]

• Coding for graphics using P5.js
• Coding for audio using Tone.js & WebAudio
• Coding for physical computing using Arduino
• Combining all 3 approaches into a final interactive project that you can touch, see, and hear.

If you are interested, please talk to your advisor or direct questions to the instructor of the class.

Hope to see you this Spring!

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