To give the student an appreciation of the range of techniques available for synthesising sound. On completion of this course the student will be proficient in the use of sound synthesis software.

Syllabus

Soundfile manipulation, editing, mixing and filtering. Signal representation; source of distortions in signals; CSOUND or Music Kit programming. Introduction to the Fourier transform. Phase vocoder and sound transformation. Analysis-based synthesis using LPC. Granular synthesis, formant synthesis. General manipulation of sound, under program control, using the phase vocoder. Digital filters, Introduction to physical modelling. Sound projection. Design and implementations of sound diffussion systems.