Electronic Music

MSC

3032

Electronic Music

This class introduces students to the musical practices, technological instruments, and scientific concepts associated with electronic music from the 19th century to the present. It builds knowledge through developing the skills of recording, editing,listening to, analyzing, and writing about music with electronic technologies and media. Students will develop applied understanding through experimental audio assignments, culminating in a final creative project. Drawing from a wide rangeof musical traditions and styles from around the world, it examines electronic musical and sonic production in a broad range of environments, including electronic and electroacoustic compositional practice, studio production, DIY instrument-making, computer music, analog and digital synthesis, and more.

Fall, Spring, Summer

Undergraduate

Yes

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