Physics 1240 : Sound and Music

Spring 2007
Professor Steven Pollock
Classroom: Duane G1B30
12:30-1:45 PM Tuesdays/Thursdays

Announcements

Week 15 (Apr 30 -May 4): Ch. 14

NOTE: Extra office hour/exam review, MONDAY evening (before the final), in Ramaly
(RAMY N1B23) 5 PM.
See the exam link for more info about the final!

The final extra credit survey is still available if you didn't do it: here Thanks for doing that!

Notes and concept tests (and answers) are on the "Reading" link, and solutions (to homeworks, exams, and homelabs) are available on CULearn. Let me know if you can't find something you're looking for! If you haven't done so, please register your iClicker here .

Shown above is the control panel of the Subtractor software synthesizer, a part of the Reason digital music system from Propellerhead software. Reason includes synthesizers (programs that make sounds), a sequencer (a program that can play sounds in sequence), a drum machine, and many digital audio effects. There are free demo versions for Macs and PCs. Two other programs with similar features are GarageBand and FLStudio. There are also programs that can take a chord progression and automatically create a backing track in one of several musical styles (check out Band in a Box) and composition 'robots' that can be programmed to create music based on an algorithm (see AnalogBox). If you never visited it, look at the software link for suggestions of other (often free) music analysis programs.

Please email me any comments and suggestions for this class information page, as well as interesting links for the course website. steven.pollock@colorado.edu

(You can visit our old homepages from weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, or 14)