sound-studio-s2025

NYU IDM Spring 2025 Sound Studio.

NYU Tandon School of Engineering: Integrated Design & Media

Spring, 2025 – DM-GY 6113

Your class meets on:

_Tuesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM

In

370 Jay Street, Room 307

And your instructors are:

Sam Tarakajian

e-mail: [email protected]

Luke DuBois

[email protected]

office hours by appointment

Schedule

Week 1 (1/21)

• What are we going to talk about in this class?
  • Different ways that you can interact with sound making systems
  • Techniques and approaches to sound design
  • Composition
• What happens when you push a button?
  • Sample playback
  • Synthesis with waveforms
  • Physical modeling
  • Video synthesis
  • Polyphony

Week 2 (1/28)

• Sampling (buffer~)

Week 3 (2/4)

• Additive Synthesis (SPEAR)

Week 4 (2/11)

• AM, FM, Envelopes

Week 5 (2/18)

• Synth lab

Week 6 (2/25)

• Patterns and sequences

Week 7 (3/4)

• Layering and Upshot

Week 8 (3/11)

• Delay lines and Filters

Week 9 (3/25)

• FFT and Fourier

Week 10 (4/1)

• FluCoMa

Week 11 (4/8)

• Granular Synthesis + MC

Week 12 (4/15)

• More granular synthesis?

Week 13 (4/22)

• Audio-reactive video?
• Laptop orchestra (link + graphic score)

Week 14 (4/29)

• Final Presentations/Crit

Assignments

• Ostinato (build a composition on top of a simple repeating loop, or repeating event)
• Drum kit design (record a bunch of one-shots, design a drum kit, make a short composition)
  • Next week, make a composition using someone else's drum kit
• One-finger composition (compose a piece that you play with just a single finger, using the track pad on your laptop)
• Guitar (even if you can't play guitar, get into the sound lab, connect a guitar to some interface, and start layering)
• Game controller composition
• Video game sound design (maybe a "mario" clone that runs in the browser?)
• Live performance with arduino and just one sensor
• Contact mic performance
• Spatialized composition