Jon Christopher Nelson

COURSE

 OUTLINE

Day

Topic

Reading/
Assignment

Optional
Reading

19-Jan

syllabus
overview

21-Jan

software
overview

Boulanger
1-2

26-Jan

digital
audio, sampling, synthesis basics

Cook
1-2

Roads
4-7

28-Jan

digital
audio, sampling, synthesis basics and analog modeling

2-Feb

reading
signal diagrams and coding/transcoding

Cook 3

4-Feb

digital
filters and delays as bldg blocks for PhysMod (incl. reverb)

9-Feb

modal
synthesis mass spring model

Cook 4

11-Feb

modal
synthesis with impulses and filters

PROJECT PROPOSAL

16-Feb

FFT as
basis for analysis/synthesis paradigms

Cook 5

18-Feb

additive
synthesis and modeling

Cook 6

23-Feb

subband
vocoders and filterbanks

Cook 7

25-Feb

subtractive
synthesis and linear prediction

Cook 8

2-Mar

strings

Cook 9

4-Mar

bars

SKETCH 1

9-Mar

nonlinear
synthesis and waveshaping

Cook
10

11-Mar

tubes
and air cavities

Cook
11

3/15/19

SPRING
BREAK

23-Mar

2 and
3 dimensions

Cook
12

25-Mar

2 and
3 dimensions

30-Mar

wavelets,
particles, and FOFs

Cook
13

1-Apr

wavelets,
particles, and FOFs

SKETCH 2

6-Apr

excitation
models

Cook
14

8-Apr

NO
CLASS

SEAMUS

 CONFERENCE

13-Apr

excitation
models

15-Apr

resonance
models and filters revisited

20-Apr

walking
synthesis

Cook
15

Farnell

22-Apr

sound
foley and surreal models

Farnell

27-Apr

surreal
models

29-Apr

surreal
models

4-May

pre-finals
week

6-May

pre-finals
week

11-May

FINAL
project 8:00-10:00 AM

MEIT