21M.361 | Spring 2008 | Undergraduate

Composing with Computers I (Electronic Music Composition)

Assignments

Assignment 1.3: Real Composition Based on Score

Assignments: 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 5.1

Using your score from Assignment 1.2, compose a piece using only your short sounds. All your short sounds must be used. Use all the ’tape’ techniques in Pro Tools we have learned so far. Forget about your long sound; you are working from the score. You are not trying to recreate the long sound. This is a real composition, one that you should feel comfortable living with and saying is yours. It should be expressive or somehow else musical, not just a technical exercise. It should be as long as you think it should be; 30s to whatever your score suggests.

Examples of Student Work from Prior Terms

These files are presented courtesy of the students and used with permission.

Alex Vazquez (MP3 - 1.1MB
Andrew McPherson (MP3 - 2.8MB
Andrew Harlan (MP3 - 1.9MB
Austin Taranta (MP3 - 1.5MB
Christian Camargo (MP3 - 2.5MB
Ed Platt (MP3 - 2.1MB
Eduardo Coutinho (MP3 - 2MB
Graham Woolley (MP3 - 5MB
Hubert Roberts (MP3
Katie Olsen (MP3 - 1.7MB
Kristen Burrall (MP3 - 2.2MB
Mats Ahlgren (MP3 - 4.2MB
Matt Gordon (MP3 - 1.8MB
Michael Miller (MP3 - 7.3MB
Michelle Fogerson (MP3 - 1.8MB
Rae Zucker (MP3 - 3.3MB
Sari Canelake (MP3 - 2MB
Sheldon Hewlett (MP3 - 1.4MB
Tilly Whitney (MP3 - 3.9MB)

Course Info

Spring 2008
Activity Assignments with Examples
Music Audio