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Rensselaer Catalog 2019-2020 
    
Rensselaer Catalog 2019-2020 [Archived Catalog]

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ARTS 4880 - Interdisciplinary Research Seminar


This is a course introducing music majors to advanced research topics of the Rensselaer music faculty.  Each semester a member of the music faculty will focus the seminar on a research topic or paradigm related to their own body of artistic and technological research. Sample topics might include Spatial music and sound, New Instrument Design, Network Music, Music Information Retrieval, Ethnomusicology, Sonification Art and Science, Music and Logic, Spectralism and Beyond, Music Herstory (feminist music composition), Experimental music and sound history. Through hands-on creative research, students will explore questions of both musical and technological significance while engaging that same topic through their own hands-on creative practice.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: ARTS 4380 and ARTS 4160 or permission of instructor.

When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



Credit Hours: 4



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