Prototyping Electronic Digital Instruments
This course provides a holistic examination of innovative electronic digital musical instrument making. It will explore the intersection of music and human-computer interaction and cover topics such as new interface design, instrument augmentation, musical expression and gesture, sound mapping, collaborative music-making, sensor and actuator technologies, musical instruments design in mixed reality, graphical score design for new musical interfaces, and performance techniques with new digital musical instruments. The class will provide hands-on experience designing, prototyping, programming, fabricating, and evaluating digital musical instruments through laboratory exercises. The students will learn to build, compose for, and perform with the instruments they create. Please note that this course requires students to purchase a electronic components starter kit, which is around $90.