After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

- produce a graphic notation of an musical oeuvre from a acousmatic perspective
- execute an acoustical measurement of a given space
- performe analog and digital sound synthesis
- transform sounds digitally

• Acousmatic - media theory about computermusic
• Acoustic Noise & Waves - basics about acoustics
• Pioneers, theorists and composers of electronic music: Hermann von Helmholtz, Gottfried Michael Koenig, John Cage, Anestis Logothetis, Iannis Xenakis, Marshall McLuhan
• research: Music Information Retrieval, Beat Detection, Pitch Dedection, Wave Field Synthesis, Voice Recognition, Physical Modelling
• Notation of computermusic with acousmographs
• Analog programming sound synthesis technique: modulation synthesis, additive & subtractive synthesis
• FFT Synthesis and FFT audio applications

The script is in mind-map for individual use and extension.

ex-cathedra teaching of facts

presenting individuall presentations

given tasks to solve during the working hours of the course

* recapitulation of facts

* control of segmented tasks

* presentations

* transfer a playing sequence and a sound collage with digital transformations

The number of attendants is restricted to 15. If there are more than 15 applicants it is only possible to take part if anotherone gets off. With personal signature at the info meeting on the beginning of the first lecture your registration is complete.

a. Interest in the implementation of technical and artistic content.
b. Willingness to consider reflective music.
c. Primacy of the ear over the eye.
d. Openness to new unheard sounds - apart from the mainstream.