Dr Lippold Haken, who’s known to many synthesists as the creator of the Continuum Fingerboard line of expressive electronic instruments, shared this series of videos from his ‘day job’ as a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois.
The videos capture his lectures for ECE 402 – Electronic Music Synthesis. The goals of the course are to provide a familiarity with current methods of electronic/computer music synthesis and their theory of operation and design. Emphasis is on systems concepts which are not likely to change with technology, and have application in Multimedia, Sonification, User Interface, and other fields.
Topics covered:
Survey of Electronic Music Technology since 1900
Music Encoding and Generation
Sound Perception and Analysis
Subtractive Synthesis: Processing of Fixed Waveforms
Sampling Synthesis
Modulation Synthesis
Additive Synthesis
Additive Synthesis with Complex Basis Functions
Physical Models
Pitch Processing
Real-Time Performance Interfaces and Implementation