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Courses

Introduction to Synthesizer Programming and Sound Design

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

A course focusing on issues related to synthesizer architecture, patch programming/editing, and functionality within the MIDI production environment.

Applied Technology for Musicians

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

Building upon basic concepts and skills learned in MTEC-111 Introduction to Music Technology, this course will give students an opportunity to continue to explore the creative uses of music technol

Introduction to Music Technology

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

An introduction to the fundamentals of music technology geared to the needs of today's professional musician.

Live Performance Techniques for Electronic Musicians

ELPDFall, Spring

This course will examine the technical and creative processes involved with adapting electronic composition and production for live performance.

Electronic Production and Design Internship

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

Monitored and evaluated professional work experience in an environment related to the electronic production and design major.

Advanced Projects in Electronic Production and Design

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

This course focuses on production of the capstone Electronic Production and Design project and provides for individual attention within a small group setting.

Experimental and Avant-Garde Electronic Composition

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

This course explores an expansive set of historically innovative academic works, which students translate into cutting-edge commercial approaches to composition and production.

Physical Modeling and Additive Synthesis

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

An exploration of excitation/resonance models of sound production: Karplus-Strong (string), brass, and woodwind modeling using digital signal processing in a dedicated hardware environment; use of

Interactive Video Programming and Performance

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

This class provides the student with an opportunity to create visual projections for their original compositions using MAX/MSP/Jitter and other programs as needed.

Digital Signal Processing for Music Production and Postproduction

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

A practical exploration of digital signal processing music and sound design projects, including composition, remixing, and mastering, with emphasis on key techniques of DSP and their applications i

Digital Signal Processing: Theory and Composition

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

A theoretical and practical exploration of open-source digital signal processing software, audio-units, and plugins.

Advanced Seminar

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

A precursor to EP-491, Advanced Seminar combines master class and private lesson settings for the electronic production and design major.

Physical Computing, Circuit Bending, and Alternative Controllers

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

Using Ableton Live, Reaktor, Max, Jitter, OSC, Csound, and C, students design and program their own interactive games and audio/video remixers.

Digital Audio Production and Design

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

This course challenges students to design and produce audio content for a series of projects.

Sound Design for Animation

ELPDSpring

A project-based course covering basic design principles and production techniques used in producing sound for animation.

Composition Workshop

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

This class provides the student with an opportunity to create portfolio pieces of original compositions using software and hardware tools.

Programming Audio Applications and Plugins in C, C++, and Objective-C

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

A class in C programming with projects tailored specifically to the progressive electronic musician.

Advanced Studies in Digital Sampling Techniques

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

This course focuses on the study of the generation of original, exotic sound textures and unusual synthetic instrumental timbres derived from acoustic sounds recorded from studio and field sources.

Programming Interactive Audio Software and Plugins in Max/MSP

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

A class in electronic production and design using Max/MSP, arguably one of the world's most powerful and intuitive multimedia programming languages.

Speech and Vocal Synthesis

ELPDFall, Spring, Summer

An overview of the electronically produced/processed voice, with exploration of: human voice mechanics; formants in speech and singing; time-stretching granular techniques; channel and phase vocode

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