Courses

This course engages an active Electro-Acoustic performing ensemble as a site for composing interactive performance systems that may be purely digital, hybrid electronic/acoustic, or may manifest across multiple media including spatialized light, sound, haptics and projected visuals. Students develop and perform with an interactive system, iteratively refining this over the course of the term. This 'digital instrumental system' is tested weekly in a performative context defined by rehearsals of the Electro-Acoustic Orchestra. Design and composition of instrumental systems centre around performer or conductor gestures via sensing and new controllers, or around sounds generated by ensemble members. Topics explored include movement and gesture in electroacoustic music, sound analysis and processing, digital instrument design, and the aesthetics of interactive music/media performance practice. Interactive performance systems from the course will be presented in public concerts each term, both on York campus as well as at venues in downtown Toronto. Cross-listed with GS/DIGM 5070 3.0.

This course prepares students to compose and perform interactive music and sound art using computational means. Students learn the fundamental programming techniques required to realize algorithmic music compositions and interactive performance systems. Following the paradigms of composer/performer and of the composed-instrument, students' projects focus on writing an interactive composition (solo or ensemble) for their classmates, and developing an interactive performance system for personal expression. Topics include orientation to algorithmic composition principles, sound analysis/processing/synthesis methods, developing new interfaces for musical expression, and fundamentals of acoustics and auditory perception as they relate to computational music and sonic art creation. Contemporary research-creation practices in these arts are introduced, and contextualized relative to the rich historical, aesthetic and conceptual literature in the field of Computer Music. Integrated with DATT/MUSI 4071.

This course involves performance study, generally in a cross-cultural context, with a view to exploring such issues in cross-cultural learning as the relationship between the performance of music and the intellectual discourse about it. Central to the course is an academic component about issues which emerge in a set of field notes about the lessons. By permission of the Graduate Executive Committee.

Individual coaching and training in music performance emphasising both theoretical and practical aspects.

This course requires the student to plan, prepare, produce and perform an advanced, full-length, professional-quality recital. Students work in close conjunction with a primary supervisor and a secondary advisor functions in a support and consultative role.

Practical experience in ensemble performance emphasising the development of collaborative music creation at a professional level.

Independent study and research under the guidance of a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology & Musicology. Aspirants must first submit a course proposal with working bibliography discography and/or filmography (as appropriate) and outline of papers or other assignments to be completed. The proposal will normally demonstrate that skills and or knowledge to be acquired in the course are germane to an approved Ph.D. dissertation, Master's thesis or major research paper. Prerequisite: Permission of the Graduate Executive Committee. Note: Normally Directed Reading courses are not open to first-year M.A. students.

Independent study and research under the guidance of a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology & Musicology. Aspirants must first submit a course proposal with working bibliography, discography and/or filmography (as appropriate) and outline of papers or other assignments to be completed. The proposal will normally demonstrate that skills and/or knowledge to be acquired in the course are germane to an approved PhD dissertation, Master's thesis or major research paper. Prerequisite: Permission of the Graduate Executive Committee. Note: Normally Directed Reading courses are not open to first-year M.A. students.

Independent study and research under the guidance of a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology & Musicology. Aspirants must first submit a course proposal with working bibliography, discography and/or filmography (as appropriate) and outline of papers or other assignments to be completed. The proposal will normally demonstrate that skills and/or knowledge to be acquired in the course are germane to an approved PhD dissertation, Master's thesis or major research paper. Prerequisite: Permission of the Graduate Executive Committee. Note: Normally Directed Reading courses are not open to first-year MA students.