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MUS 534, TeQWire*
Voice & Technology
History and Practice |
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Wednesday
10:AM - 12:30
Woolworth Studio B
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*TeQWire is a wacky
word combining
"Technology" and "Choir" |
Schedule: (More Coming Soon!!)
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Date | Topic(s) | Reading | Listening | Singing |
Week 1
Feb. 6 |
Voice Acoustics, Physiology, Neurology
Speech/Song Articulation
Voice Pitch (General Pitch/Loudness) |
Cook Chaps 1-3
Cook PsychBook |
Listen Up!
| Articulatory Conducting
F1F2 Space Conducting |
Week 2
Feb. 13 |
Visual Voice,
Vision vs. Audition
Voice and Audio Visualization
Singing Voice vs. Speech
Vibrato, Singer's Formant, More |
Cook Chaps. 4-5
Sundberg Book |
Listen Up!
| Lots of warbling into
sndpeek
"Circle of FLKS?" |
Week 3
Feb. 20 |
BioMedical Voice
Vocal Noise |
Cook Chaps. 6-7
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Listen Up!
| "Anne's Experiment?" |
Week 4
Feb. 27 |
Space, Echo, Delay, Architecture
Special Guest: Bob Pritchard
(UBC) on DIVA |
Cook Chaps. 8-9 |
Listen Up!
| Bob's Demos |
Week 5
Mar. 5 |
Notation, Conducting
Broadcast, Microphones
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Cook Chaps. 10-11 |
Listen Up!
| PRC Credo? |
Week 6
Mar. 12 |
TechBand Concert Post-mortem
Tear up and build things |
Cook Chaps. 12-13 |
Listen Up!
| TechBandPieces |
Week 7
Mar. 19 |
WAS BREAK WEEK |
Cook Chap. 14 |
BREAK |
BREAK!! |
Week 8
Mar. 26 |
Amplifiers, Antique
hearing aids, some Patents |
Cook Chaps. 15-16 |
Listen Up!
| Ran Out Of Time |
Week 9
Apr. 2 |
Theremin, Hearing aids
Lots of ChucK Programming |
Cook Chap. 16 |
Listen Up!
| Lots of Perry
Singing Thru ChucK |
Week 10
Apr. 9 |
More ChucK, hearing aids, Amplifiers |
Cook Chap. 16 |
Listen Up!
| Things and stuff |
Week 11
Apr. 16 |
Musical/Vocal Machines
Music Boxes, other Automata |
Cook Chap. 18 |
Listen Up!
| Video Tapes of Musical Machines |
Week 12
Apr. 23 |
No Class, PLOrk @ Carnegie Hall |
Cook Chap. 19 |
Listen Up!
| SiliBand with ACO |
Week 13
Apr. 30 |
Last Class :-(
Tools for Voice Analysis,
and Modification (research stuff) |
TAPESTREA,
sndtools,
Spectro |
Listen Up!
| Georgian Peaches,
2/3 of Celestial Mechanics
Yummy Snacks! (thanx Lainie) |
Course Description:
Who might be interested in attending:
- Composers
- Performers (Singers, Actors)
- Musicologists
- Linguists
- Anyone interested in how our voices:
- function (physics, acoustics, physiology, neurology, etc.)
- have been studied/viewed in the past
- are systematically studied today
- have brought about, and been changed by, new technologies
- can be synthesized by analog and/or digital means
- can be analyzed/recognized by computers
- are being used to make new art, music, and media
Each week we will:
- Discuss a few chapters from my new book
(nearly finished at last)
- Listen to a lot of sound examples and excerpts
(some of these are quite rare or re-discovered)
- Look at one or more pieces of new techno-voice music/art
- Sing something (maybe not all of us, but something's
gonna get sung each and every week).
Outside Class You Will:
- Read chapters from the above mentioned book.
- Dig up interesting things to show and play in class.
- Do a project involving the voice and technology. This
could be a paper, a piece, a computer program, a
composition, a performance, or other.
Those of you who have been participating in TechBand
(PLOrk++) seminar this semester are vigorously encouraged
to continue into TeQWire, 'cause we'll continue to build
some of the things we started this semester. New people
are even more vigorously encouraged to join TeQWire, as
I assure you that TechBand is not a prereq.
Reading: Chapters from new book
near completion
plus other papers and book chapters.
Writing, Assignments: Individual reports/projects/presentations
on topics of interest. Lots of listening, too.