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Rensselaer Catalog 2021-2022 
    
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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: Prerequisite: one of the folloowing: ARTS 2380, ARTS 2020, or permission of instructor.

When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



Cross Listed: ARTS 6880. Students may not receive credit for both the 4000 level and 6000 level versions of this course.

Credit Hours: 4



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