Making music with MATLAB: an electronic music synthesis course for engineering students

Author

Doering, Ed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technol., Terre Haute, IN, USA

Volume

6

fYear

1999

fDate

15-19 Mar 1999

Firstpage

3581

Abstract

An elective course in electronic music synthesis has been developed for electrical and computer engineering students. The course provides an interesting way to integrate and apply DSP and computer manipulation concepts studied in previous courses, and extends student understanding of more advanced concepts such as time-evolving spectra. MATLAB is a standard platform used in the signals and DSP courses, so MATLAB forms the primary tool for converting algorithmic descriptions of waveforms into sound. The paper outlines course topics and methods, includes a detailed example of pedagogy, and presents assessment results

Keywords

audio signal processing; computer aided instruction; educational courses; electrical engineering education; electronic music; signal synthesis; DSP; DSP courses; MATLAB; algorithmic descriptions; assessment results; computer engineering students; computer manipulation; electrical engineering students; electronic music synthesis course; pedagogy; sound; standard platform; time-evolving spectra; waveforms; Auditory displays; Digital signal processing; Electronic music; Engineering students; MATLAB; Multiple signal classification; Real time systems; Signal processing algorithms; Signal synthesis; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1999. Proceedings., 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5041-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1999.757617

Filename

757617