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I. INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Russell Pinkston, Professor.
Office Hours: TTh 3:30-4:00 and by appointment, MRH 4.156 (471-0865)
Teaching Assistants: Greg Cornelius, Justin Sharp, Nick Sibicky
II. MATERIALS:
You are responsible for backing up your own sounds and other
data and for bringing your own supplies to the studios, including
CDs and ZIP disks and/or JAZ cartridges. Please don't remove
anything from these studios without explicit permission from
a member of the Electronic Music Center staff!
III. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Satisfactory progress on an electronic media project, topic
to be determined in consultation with the instructor. For
MUS688 - Electronic Composition, this is a new piece of electroacoustic
music; for MUS688 - Electronic Media Projects and MUS329F,
this is usually a new piece, but other media projects will
be considered.
IV. COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING CRITERIA:
25% -- "class participation." All students
are required to attend the Advanced Electronic Composition
Seminar on a regular basis. Everyone is expected to bring
in samples of their work-in-progress, from time to time, and
to participate in the class discussions. Each student
must make at least three presentations during the course of
the semester. There is a sign-up sheet on the inside
of the Studio II door.
15% -- Midterm progress report. In the case of a composition,
this consists of a rough mix of the piece-as-it-stands, which
must be played in the Seminar at midterm and handed in after
class. For non-composition projects, the nature of the progress
report and final project format will be decided at the beginning
of the term.
60%
-- Completed Term Project.For MUS688 Grad Electronic Composition, this is usually
expected to be a finished piece of at least 6-8 minutes duration.
For 329F or G, 3-5 minutes is an acceptable minimum.
Compositions should be recorded on DAT or CD.
Projects are due on the last class session, at which
time it will be played along with other student pieces in
a mini-concert.
Note
(Grad Students Only):The extent of your independence in these courses is
essentially up to you. However, it is strongly recommended
that you schedule at least one meeting with me every two or
three weeks. If
you do want a regular private meeting time, please so indicate
on your schedule request form.
GETTING AFTER-HOURS TECHNICAL HELP:
Please read the online FAQs and help sheets before asking
for help. They are available at the main UTEMS web site, under
"Studio Documentation." The address is http://ems.music.utexas.edu/docs/.
If you do have a problem you cannot resolve yourself, however,
please do the following:
- Use our email tech support system. To contact the
staff concerning a problem, write to ems-tech@mail.music.utexas.edu.
This is a list that is monitored by the entire UT EMS staff.
Someone will respond as soon as possible. We all check our
email fairly regularly, so it is quite likely you will receive
a timely response.
- Call a member of the EMS staff. Our home phone
numbers are on posted on the studio doors. Please do this
only as a last resort and please do not call after 10 P.M.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Never remove a studio key from this building for any reason.
- Never move or borrow equipment from any studio without
prior authorization.
- Sign out anything that you do remove in the log; sign
it back in when you return it.
- Clean up after yourself. Return everything to the way
you found it.
- Don't attempt to recalibrate or repair equipment yourselves
(note problems in log).
- Don't download or install any software on EMS computers.
Especially on Macintosh computers, installing software often
has undesirable side effects that can prevent our critical
applications from functioning properly. Please let the staff
handle all system maintenance and configuration.
- Keep food and drinks far away from equipment.
- No smoking.
- No guests without prior permission.
- The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request
appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students
with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office
of the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-4641 TTY.
- The studio alarms are armed automatically during hours
when the building is closed. If you are not out of the labs
by the time they arm, you will trigger the alarm, the police
will come, and they will not be amused. If you do end up
setting off the alarms, you must call the police (1-4441)
immediately, tell them you are a student and explain what
happened. Then wait for them to arrive and show them your
ID, etc. But even better, get out of the labs on time so
you don't set off the alarm!
It should not be necessary to say that we are all dependent
on each other here -- no amount of security precautions can
suffice to protect us members of our own user community who
are either careless or unscrupulous. We have no insurance
on any of this equipment or software and we have a very limited
budget which must cover repairs and replacements, as well
as new acquisitions. We rely on the "honor system"
and it has worked pretty well so far; let's keep it that way.
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