* Distinguish among specific acoustic properties of sound like frequency, amplitude, timbre and envelope. * Listen deeply with discernment to subtle variants in all sounds and begin to think in terms of sound shaping. Anyone with a background in music theory wishing to continue with music studies should take MUS 102/Fundamentals of Music.īy the end of this class, you will be able to: Since we now have a Music Fundamentals course (MUS 102) now being offered every semester, the standard music theory component that used to be a part of MUS 101 can be removed so we can concentrate more on Deep Listening applied to musical imagination, daily life, and aesthetics. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds.
To develop natural creative abilities especially as applied to music.To acquire some facility with present-day sound shaping technologies.To learn a variety of approaches to depicting sound (notation).To develop Deep Listening skills applied to shaping sounds both.Of course, any way you want to approach it is fine as long as it looks and sounds good.Office hours: 11:00-12:00 M-F. "If you start with how it sounds and work from pattern recognition, not pattern creation, you got the idea of something that both sounds beautiful and looks cool. "The problem of going for the 'catch of the eye' approach with something like this is that you will encounter things like it sounding crap most of the time," Vinter says. Vinter has only made a few himself, and most of them in a single day, including a monkey face, a Darth Vader face, a T-Rex, a fire-spitting dragon that plays the Mario theme, and a bird in the rain. And for him, turning images into sound can often be more about how the composition looks rather than how it sounds. Vinter says that MIDI art isn't a movement or even a recognized art form. In a way, Vinter's bird and Huang's unicorn are more like a blend of spectrogram compositions and Black MIDI. Vinter and Huang's MIDI compositions share some DNA with Black MIDI art, but they aren't about speed or patterns. They also design visuals, with colors connected to specific notes that created complex, psychedelic patterns when played.
Originating back in 2009, Black MIDI artists use software to create musical compositions stuffed with a seemingly impossible number of notes. For the score of 'Eiffel Tower,' I selected 900 pixel-coordinates of one side of the building, transferred them into Mathematica software, created the MIDI file, and finally exported it into Sibelius and listened to it."Īnother example is the artworks made by the Black MIDI subculture. "We can finally visualize the content of the MIDI and see the image (only 2D, though).
"Once I write the score, I can convert it into a MIDI file via a notational software," says Mannone, who notes the process can also be used to turn sound into images.