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Learning Goals
The BFA Music Technology program aims to build strong musical skills while promoting the mastery of a variety of music-related technologies in the context of pursuing creative work. Specifically, Music Technology students will have opportunities to:
- Become trained artists able to work in any orchestral, ensemble or global music production, including knowing how to produce a concert, manage a stage, understand a sound board and run stage monitor and main audience sound
- Attain strong music theory, ear training and rhythmic training, with a focus on 21st century technology
- Learn how to run a music studio for recording production, with full knowledge of microphone techniques, software editors, audio effects, mixing and mastering
- Acquire strong contextualization abilities for the history of electro-acoustic music
- Learn how algorithms for traditional synthesis and audio affect production
- Become proficient software engineers, with the ability to code for websites and utilize advanced object-oriented languages for artistic expression
- Understand basic digital signal processing and its relationship to audio, including time and frequency domains and how these can be manipulated for artistic purposes
- Also be able to use basic electronics and know how to design human computer interfaces for artistic practices
- Develop project implementation and production capabilities, including planning, execution, time management and documentation skills
Program Requirements
The following subset of the CORE CURRICULUM:
- MTHY101 & MTHY102 Tonal Skills A&B (2 classes)
- MTHY104 Musicianship Skills: Rhythm A (1 class)
- MTHY111 Tonal Theory A (1 class)
- MTHY210 Post-Tonal Theory (1 class)
- MAIC100 Survey of 20th & 21st C. Music History & Literature (1 class)
- MAIC101 World Music Survey
- Any ONE of the following FIVE History and Cultures Options:
- MHST205 Western Music History I
- MHST206 Western Music History II
- MAIC240 Jazz History
- MHST302 Popular Music: A Social and Analytical History
- MHST300-309 Music Cultures
- MHST350 Stylists & Innovators 1961-Now
- MLSN003 (1 class) Class Piano (or alternative keyboard course as approved by instructor: see complete CORE CURRICULUM listing for options)
- Vocal Elective (1 class) – see complete CORE CURRICULUM listing for options
- World Music Ensemble elective (1 class) – see complete CORE CURRICULUM listing for options
- Two electives taken in the Schools of Art, Dance, Film/Video, and/or Theater. These may be courses also taken to fulfill Critical Studies Arts in Context requirements.
Plus the following MAJOR AREA courses:
- MFOR106 Creative Technology Forum (each semester offered)
- MTEC101 & MTEC102 Concert Production I & II Tech (2 classes, consecutively beginning Fall of BFA-1)
- MTEC150 Sound Synthesis (1 class)
- MTEC155 Advanced Sound Synthesis (1 class)
- MTEC270 Composing with Technology (1 class)
- MTEC308 Advanced Production Techniques (1 class)
- MTEC330 & MTEC331 Interface Design I & II (2 classes)
- MTHY310 Acoustics for Musicians (1 class)
- MTEC415 Visual Programming
- As Part of Critical Studies:
- ICOM202 Introduction to Programming II
- Music Technology electives, chosen from (2 classes):
- MTEC210 Laptop Audio Production
- MTEC312 Mobile Music Computing
- MTEC340 Programming for Raspberry Pi
- MTEC360 Audio Signal Processing
- MTEC380 Advanced Web Development
- MTEC480 MIR & Machine Learning for Art
- MTEC450 Robotic Design for Music
- MTEC199 Undergraduate Independent Project: Music Technology
- Digital Performance Ensemble electives, chosen from (2 classes):
- IIMC350 SoundGameSpace
- MBLE415 Networked Music Ensemble
- MBLE310/426 Improvisation Ensemble
- MBLE450 Sonic Boom
- MCMP415 Choreographers & Composers
- MTEC440 Machine Orchestra
- MBLE325 Creative Electronic Ensemble
- MTEC418 Data Driven Art & Visuals
- MTEC419 Experience Design & Technology
- MTEC420 Grids, Beats, and Groups
- MTEC430 21st-Century Raga & Tala
- MTEC431 Digitizing World Music
- MTEC441 Composition for Robots
- MTEC490 Music Technology BFA Project (2 classes)
Plus the following SUPPORT courses:
- MAIC425 Survey of Sound Art
- Composition elective, chosen from (1 class):
- MCMP110 Introduction to Composition
- MCMP320 Electroacoustic Composition
- MCMP321 Live Electronic Music-Making
- MCMP417 Media Strategies Rules and Space
- MCMP418 Media Theory The Interactee
- MPRF330 Trigger: Electronic Percussion
- Electives (to fulfill 120-unit degree requirement)
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