Judy's Original Course Outline

Section One
    Sound waves, sampling, digital-to-audio conversion, wavetables.
    Recording/Sampling hardware.
    Recording/Sampling software.
    Analog-to-Digital Conversion
        Process, Hardware, Software
    Intro to Music Programming

Section Two:
    Making sound with sine waves.
    Harmonization.
    Timing.
    Making melodies.
    Randomization as a tool.

Section Three:
    Synthesis in more depth
    Granular Synthesis
    Synthesis from sine waves
    Synthesis from Wavetables
   

Section Four:   
    OSC (Open Sound Control) – internet based sound interaction format.
    Experiments in interactive synthesis.

Section Five:
    Designing interaction of synthesizers, timing.

Section Six:
    Focus on Final Project – One or more clusters of student groups

Section Seven:
    Final Project – demonstrations, department “performance”