Welcome!

Welcome to the TRACKS project Music engineering and awareness of sound!

Here is a short video from the course in 2020:  Music engineering 2020 

 

Course coordinator, examiner:

Jens Ahrens , jens.ahrens@chalmers.se

Teachers, tutors:

Jens Ahrens , jens.ahrens@chalmers.se

Affe Almstedt , affe@chalmers.se

Mats Ander,  mats.ander@chalmers.se

Palle Dahlstedt, palle@chalmers.se

Thomas Rylander, rylander@chalmers.se 

Arion Pons, arion@chalmers.se 

 

Organization and learning activities

The course is organized into two phases with work shops in phase 1 (lp3) and project work in phase 2 (lp4).

Overview of the schedule:

Phase 1 (lp3):  W5-6: Workshop 1: Acoustic instruments  W7-8: Workshop 2: Musique concrète  W8-9: Workshop 3: Music and sound perception  W10,12: Workshop 4: Electronic sound synthesis

Phase 2 (lp4):  W13-22: Projects in groups  May 28: Final presentations  June 6, 17 h: Deadline submission of final reports

 

Examination

To pass the course the following need to be fulfilled

• At least 3 approved workshops
• Approved workshop: active participation of 80 % of the time incl. assignments and presentations
• Full participation in phase 2
• Attendance of final presentation
• Approved project work incl. report (phase 2)

• The project in phase 2 determines the grade
• Bachelor and master students are graded according to separate standards
• HISS: Helhetsintryck, innehåll, (struktur, språk)
• Originality/creativity
• Presentation

 

Detailed Schedule

We will do our best to use Module C in the Blockschema for the scheduled course activities.

Blockschema:

  

w4   

Course introduction-presentation

Mon, Jan. 20, 15.15-17.00 h: Kick off (Room SB3-L113)

 

w5-w6

Workshop 1: Acoustic Instruments

Mon, Jan. 27, 15.15 - 17.00 h: lecture, introduction of home assignment (Jens, Mats), (Room SB3-L113)

Fri, Jan. 31, 15.15 - 17.00 h: lecture (Jens), (Room SB3-L113)

Fri, Feb. 7, 15.15 - 17.00 h: presentations of home assignments, (Room SB3-L113)

 

w7-8

Workshop 2 : Musique concrète

Tue, Feb 11, 9-11.45 h, Lecture (Palle, Mats) (Room SB3-L113)

- The tools of concrete sound: Technology as generative constraint, from the 1950s till today, lecture with a lot of music examples.
- How to make sound and compose with it: Object musicianship and recording technique, lecture/workshop

Fre, Feb. 14, 13.15-16.00 h (room SB3-L110, bring your laptop!)

- Extended musique concrète, lecture. Q&A about your ongoing pieces.
- Workshop: Introduction to sound editing and mixing (using Reaper.fm), optional if you are already experienced with DAW software.

Tue, Feb. 18th, 9.00-11.45 h (room SB3-L113)

-  Presentations of student works in musique concrète

 

w8-9

Workshop 3: Groove

Wed, Feb 19, 10.00-11.45 h, workshop (Thomas, Jens), (Room SB3-L111)

Fri, Feb 21, 15.15-17.00 h, workshop (Jens, Affe), (Room SB3-L113)

Fri, Feb 28, 15.15-17.00 h, presentation of home assignment (Jens, Affe), (Room SB3-L113)

 

w10-12

Workshop 4: Electronic sound synthesis

Bring your laptop to the lectures/workshops of this week!

Mon, Mar 3, 13.15-17.00 h (room SB3-L112): History of and introduction to sound synthesis, lecture/workshop. (Palle, Mats) 

Fri, Mar 14, 13.15-17.00 h (room SB3-L110): More on synthesis: advanced techniques, lecture/workshop. (Palle, Mats)

Tue, Mar 18, 9.00-11.45 h (room EB): presentation of student works

 

 

w11-w12

Wed, Mar 19, 17.00 h: Deadline for project ideas

Fri, Mar 21, 17.00 h: Deadline for support for project ideas

 

w13

Tue, Apr 1, 17.00 h: Deadline for hand in of project description/plan (in groups)

 

w13-w21 (Project phase)

Meetings with groups (scheduled individually)

Project work with weekly supervision (Jens, Affe, Palle, Mats)

Wed, May 28, 8.00-12.00 h (room SB-H2): Final presentations

 

w23

Fri, Jun. 6, 17 h: Deadline submission of final reports