Lecture No.

Date

Topics

1-2

Wed, 1/18

Introduction to course

1-3

Fri, 1/20

Introduction to section, Call for wave game volunteers

2-1

Mon, 1/23

Philosophy of science

2-2

Wed, 1/25

Sound and waves

2-3

Fri, 1/27

Wave game

3-1

Mon, 1/30

What is pitch?

3-2

Wed, 2/1

Resonance, setting pitch

3-3

Fri, 2/3

Resonance activity

4-1

Mon, 2/6

Slide tubes, wisdom of the crowds

4-2

Wed, 2/8

Putting it all together

4-3

Fri, 2/10

Quiz #1

5-1

Mon, 2/13

Fourier synthesis

5-2

Wed, 2/15

Fourier decomposition

5-3

Fri, 2/17

The Fourier transform

6-1

Mon, 2/20

PRESIDENT'S DAY: NO LECTURE

6-2

Wed, 2/22

Why instruments sound different: Setting timbre

6-3

Fri, 2/24

Transfer functions

7-1

Mon, 2/27

Transients

7-2

Wed, 2/29

Anharmonic instruments

7-3

Fri, 3/2

Cuica activity

8-1

Mon, 3/5

The ear

8-2

Wed, 3/7

Ethnomusicology, Guest Lecturer: Ben Brinner

8-3

Fri, 3/9

Quiz #2

9-1

Mon, 3/12

Signals in noise

9-2

Wed, 3/14

SN continued, fool the professor

9-3

Fri, 3/16

Music boxes activity (Project #1 due)

10-1

Mon, 3/19

Room acoustics

10-2

Wed, 3/21

Analog recording

10-3

Fri, 3/23

TBD

SPRING BREAK

3/26 - 3/30

11-1

Mon, 4/2

Digital recording

11-2

Wed, 4/4

Guest Lecturer: Carl Haber

11-3

Fri, 4/6

Speakers activity

Sat, 4/7

Trip to the Exploratorium

12-1

Mon, 4/9

A/D, compression

12-2

Wed, 4/11

Voice

12-3

Fri, 4/13

Review

13-1

Mon, 4/16

Guest Lecturer: John Lazzaro

13-2

Wed, 4/18

Synthetic music, complexity

13-3

Fri, 4/20

Quiz #3

14-1

Mon, 4/23

+/- Feedback loops

14-2

Wed, 4/25

"Big Bang Music," Review- narrative walkthrough of course

14-3

Fri, 4/27

Course contributions, vocal transformation (Project #2 due)

FINAL EXAM

Tue, 5/8 8-11A

TBD