Recording Techniques (322-0-1)
Instructors
Christopher A Mercer
camercer@hotmail.com
Faculty member, Composition and Music Technology program. Composer of electroacoustic music, combining lo-tech analog techniques with extensive digital signal processing; specialist in multi-channel audio and spatialization. Composer of acoustic music focusing on extended instrumental techniques, modified conventional instruments, and instruments of the composer's own design and, most recently, combining this approach with real-time electronics and spatialization. Author of articles on musical aesthetics and composition. Residencies at Experimentalstudio SWR in Freiburg, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, and Sound Traffic Control in San Francisco. Principal teachers were Peter Otto and Roger Reynolds, electronic music and Chaya Czernowin and Chinary Ung, instrumental music.
Meeting Info
RCMA Lower Level 121: Mon, Wed 11:00AM - 12:20PM
Overview of class
Recording and Basic Audio. The class will look in detail at microphone design and placement techniques, covering stereo miking; close and distant miking of voices, acoustic instruments, and ensembles; and "source" recording for sound design and musique concrète applications. The class will also introduce practical issues related to field and studio recording and a variety of fundamental audio concepts including signal flow, console design, word clock, time code, dynamics processing, and effects processing. Students will make their own recordings using the techniques discussed in class with the goal of producing professional-quality projects.
Class Materials (Required)
No required textbooks or software.