This course continues directly on from DART1006 Audio Manoeuvres, but extends the study of creative audio through the introduction of a more powerful composing application. Through such applications, more sophisticated computer music programming concepts are introduced that allow for a combination of synthesis and signal processing techniques to be employed under real-time conditions. The principle objective of this course is to gain a familiarity of programmatic style composition languages in preparation for more advanced use in the next semester.

Assessment is by a series of assignments, and a final presentation of the major project to the Viva Examination panel.

Assignments (50%), Major Project (50%)

All sessions take place in a computer laboratory:

3 hours of seminar / studio practice per week

Students are expected to do at least an extra 4 - 6 hours of independent studio practice each week

DART1006 Audio Manoeuvres

• Roads, Curtis. The Computer Music Tutorial, Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1996.
• Rowe, Robert. Machine Musicianship. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2001.
• Emmerson, Simon, ed. The Language of Electroacoustic Music, MacMillan Press, 1986.

• Wishart, Trevor. Audible Design: A Plain and Easy Introduction to Sound Composition. York, England: Orpheus the Pantomime, 1994.

• Cottle, David. Computer Music with Examples in SuperCollider 3, 2007 (Online)