Music Culture and the Digital Multimedia Environment

Music 23, Fall 2001, 3 units
MW 2-3, 3116 Etcheverry; labs for one hour on Friday, at 2, 3, or 4
Prof. Mary Kay Duggan, Dept. of Music; School of Information Management & Systems
Office hours: Monday/Friday 11-12, 3325 Dwinelle Hall; 642-5764

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    Course Topics/Goals
  • Music cultures of the past and present, in the context of the digital environment
  • The relationship of music and multimedia cultures
  • Exploration of musical resources on the web, including sounds, images, text, and other forms of data
  • Uses of software in:
    • Design of multimedia web sites; basic editing of full and compressed image and sound files
    • Creation and manipulation of MIDI
    • Creation of digital music notation
    • Scanning of music notation to create image and MIDI sound files
    • Searching and retrieving information from digital musical data
  • Creation of a multimedia final project using the knowledge and skills acquired in the course

Requirements

  • Acquisition of proficiency with image and sound file manipulation, web page creation, and other techniques of multimedia production
  • Construction of a personal web site and a multimedia project or "paper" which analyzes and describes a body of musical material.
  • Hands-on lab exercises, including analysis of music in digital formats, use of search engines, MIDI, digital music notation, sound files, sound and graphic integration
  • Assignments and readings, including digital music publications, copyright, MIDI, digital formats, etc.
  • Quizzes; participation in group discussions

Prerequisites: Basic ability to read music notation and to use a music keyboard. Basic familiarity with computers and the Internet. The objectives of this class do not include music composition or computer programming, though these topics may be discussed.

Textbooks: Course reader (available at Copy Central, 2560 Bancroft Way), and Designing Web Audio by Josh Beggs and Dylan Thede. Sebastopol: O'Reilly, 2001 (available at campus store).

Contact: Prof. Duggan: 3325 Dwinelle Hall, 642-5764, mkduggan@sims.berkeley.edu
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