Topics for Next Week

Hi All,
Great discussion this evening. The topics about the interiority versus exteriority of sound, the phenomenological questions of listener versus source, the construction of the subject and the senses of that subject are topics which we will continue to
focus on over the course of the semester.Glad to see the interest bubbling up...

Don't fret about the last 30 minutes tonite...I will spend a thorough amount of time next week (both inside and outside of the Mac Lab) going over the material that I still haven't gotten to. I will attempt to discuss it first from a acoustic point of view (i.e., listening) and then we can break things down intothe lower level math behind it. If you are interested in brushing up (there are many sources online),
the topics we will cover include:
Sinusoidals (phase, amplitude-magnitude, period, frequency), superposition/addition of sinusoidals, beats, a brief sketch of fourier analysis (decomposing complex sounds into a sum of sinusoidals), time versus frequency domains and finall, sampling fundamentals (nyquist theorem, aliasing, folding). I will also introduce complex numbers as a way of
manipulating sinusoidals.
This will take 2 hours and then we will break and go to the Mac lab and test these things out as we start to make our way around Max/MSP.

I will post on the blog an announcement when the readers are completed tomorrow...then you can pick them up from mich sardella.

cs.