UCI music professor Michael Dessen prepared two tutorial videos for his Music 3 class demonstrating how to perform some of the basic recording and editing functions of Audacity. The videos are available on YouTube and are called “Audio Assign 1” and “Audio Assign 2“.
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An Acoustics Primer
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An Acoustics Primer by Jeffrey Hass is good supplemental reading material for the first week.
How Hearing Works
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“How Hearing Works” by Tom Harris explains the human auditory system in six brief web pages.
MuLab
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MuLab, free cross-platform music composition/production software
Audacity
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Audacity, free cross-platform audio recording/editing software
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The following applications are required for this class:
Audacity, free cross-platform audio recording/editing software
MuLab, free cross-platform music composition/production software
Audacity and MuLab Free are available in these labs:
Arts Media Center, AITRC 290, M-Th 11am-3pm
Digital Arts Teaching Lab, CAC 3006, MW 9am-9pm, TTh 12pm-9pm, F 9am-5pm
Headphones are supplied at the Arts Media Center. You will need to bring your own headphones or earbuds with a 1/8″ stereo plug to use in the Digital Arts Teaching Lab.
Other free computer music programs of interest include:
Csound, a free text-based computer music synthesis programming environment
Pure Data (Pd), a free graphical computer music programming environment
ChucK, a free realtime computer audio programming language