Want to produce and record your own music? This course will help you do that by showing you how to apply new technologies to your own creative practice, using freeware and browser based apps. Music Technology Foundations draws on Adelaide’s world-class pioneering expertise in making electronic music, to provide a great foundation to a career in music and to enable any learner to use technology.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
Certification
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Course Credit: University of Adelaide
Course Curriculum
Introduction to sound | |||
What is music technology? | 00:04:00 | ||
A brief history of music technology | 00:03:00 | ||
Music revolutionaries – Leon Theremin | 00:04:00 | ||
Theremin demonstration | 00:02:00 | ||
Sound recording | 00:05:00 | ||
Music revolutionaries: Leon Scott, Charles Cros & Thomas Edison | 00:06:00 | ||
Sound waves & measurement | 00:04:00 | ||
Perception of sound | 00:03:00 | ||
Audible illusion experiment | 00:03:00 | ||
Audible illusion experiment explained | 00:02:00 | ||
Digital Audio | |||
What is audio? | 00:02:00 | ||
Digital Audio 101 | 00:04:00 | ||
Audio file formats | 00:02:00 | ||
Music revolutionaries – Pierre Schaeffer | 00:07:00 | ||
Sampling | 00:03:00 | ||
Software for editing digital audio | 00:05:00 | ||
Ableton Push demonstration | 00:03:00 | ||
Abstract sound creation | 00:03:00 | ||
MIDI | |||
The Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) | 00:04:00 | ||
How MIDI was created | 00:04:00 | ||
MIDI hardware and storage | 00:03:00 | ||
Music revolutionaries – Percy Grainger | 00:07:00 | ||
Messaging using MIDI | 00:03:00 | ||
MIDI connectivity | 00:03:00 | ||
MIDI sequencing | 00:04:00 | ||
Seb Tomczak’s demonstration of 8-bit music | 00:05:00 | ||
Synthesis | |||
What is synthesis? | 00:05:00 | ||
Music revolutionaries – Robert Moog & Wendy Carlos | 00:08:00 | ||
Music revolutionaries – Tristram Cary & Delia Derbyshire | 00:06:00 | ||
Subtractive synthesis | 00:05:00 | ||
Additive synthesis | 00:03:00 | ||
Frequency Modulation synthesis | 00:05:00 | ||
Yamaha DX7 demonstration | 00:05:00 | ||
Effects and processing | |||
Introduction to effects & processing | 00:04:00 | ||
Music revolutionaries – Homer Dudley & Laurie Anderson | 00:08:00 | ||
Natural effects – reverb | 00:04:00 | ||
Natural effects – filtering | 00:03:00 | ||
Natural effects – distortion | 00:02:00 | ||
Natural effects – delay/echo | 00:03:00 | ||
Analog effects | 00:04:00 | ||
Digital effects | 00:02:00 | ||
Introduction to built-in effects using Audacity | 00:07:00 | ||
Amplitude enveloping using Audacity | 00:02:00 | ||
Equalisation: Low cut & high cut using Audacity | 00:05:00 | ||
Reverse reverb using Audacity | 00:03:00 | ||
Distortion using Audacity | 00:02:00 | ||
High & low speed change using Audacity | 00:02:00 | ||
Pulling it all together | |||
Pulling it all together | 00:03:00 | ||
Recipe for musique concrète | 00:06:00 | ||
Recipe for sound symbol composition | 00:06:00 | ||
Recipe for drum and bass | 00:06:00 | ||
1. Multi-tracking in Audacity: Setting up | 00:02:00 | ||
2. Organising musical time | 00:04:00 | ||
3. Adding a kick sequence | 00:08:00 | ||
4. Adding a snare blast sequence | 00:04:00 | ||
5. Adding a reversed echo embellishment | 00:04:00 | ||
6. Adding a cymbal sequence | 00:05:00 | ||
7. Building up the mix and exporting | 00:04:00 | ||
Assessment | |||
Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
Certification | 00:00:00 |
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