Course Title:
Electronic Musical Instruments
Code:
TA- 6015
Short Description:
Introduction to the design, research, practice and evaluation of the new electronic musical instruments and interactive music systems. Electronic Musical Instrument: Types, Operation, and History. Musical instruments as interactive systems - Parts of a musical performance system - Mapping theories. Research Methodologies- Design Methodologies. Psychoacoustics- Ergonomics. Evaluation methods. Current research tendencies on the design of new music instruments.
Literature:
1. Appleton, J. H., και C. Perera, The Development and Practice of Electronic Music. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc., 1975
2. Chadabe, J., (1997) Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
3. Cook, P., (ed.) (2001), Music, Cognition and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
4. Roads, C. (1996), The Computer Music Tutorial, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
5. Jordà, S. «Interactivity and Live Computer Music», The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, Colins N. και J. d’Escrivàn Julio (επιμέλεια). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
6. Miranda E. R. και M. M. Wanderley. New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction Beyond the Keyboard. Middleton: A-R Editions Inc., 2006.
Course Assessment:
Weekly meetings, Final projects
ECTS
10
Professor:
Dr K.Tzedaki, email: tzed@staff.teicrete.gr
