Course schedule

Week 1, January 22
(This schedule is tentative, and open to suggestions from everyone in the seminar)

• Intro to sonification
• Bach, The Musical Offering, and canons

Week 2, January 29

• Gaines on Bach, gematria and musical encryption
• Analyzing canons and fugues

Week 3, February 5

• Musical Offering concluded
• Art of the Fugue

Week 4, February 12

• Art of the Fugue concluded
• Hofstadter & representation

Week 5, February 19

• (ST out of town)

Week 6, February 26

• Mithen, The Singing Neanderthals
• Music and neuroscience
• Infant-directed speech, pet-directed speech

Week 7, March 4

• Mithen, Fitch on evolution
• Ligeti, Kubrick & 2001: A Space Odyssey (and film music in general)

Week 8, March 11

• Program music
• Hatten & topics
• Wagner & leitmotifs

Week 9, March 18

• Presentations on program music & musical representation

Spring Break

Week 10, April 1

• The Sonification Handbook

Week 11, April 8

• Tom Johnson, Looking at Numbers

Week 12, April 15

• Sonification & SuperCollider, other programs

Week 13, April 22

• Sonification & Max

Week 14, April 29

• Preparation for final presentation (or concert?)