Hi!

I am looking for a sound synthesis/composition workshop that takes place this up comming summer. I read that either or both CCRMA and Princeton have had a summer workshop that focused on ChucK. Does anyone know if this is happening this year?

In terms of sound synthesis/analysis, Perry Cook and Xavier Serra jointly teach a 2-week intensive workshop every summer (usually at CCRMA), usually making use of several systems (STK, ChucK, CLAM). The goal is to gain an understanding of key and state-of-the-art techniques in sound synthesis, and not necessarily to learn programming via/usage of a particular system. The announcements for this summer aren't out yet, but looks like it is scheduled to take place from June 23 - July 4 this year at CCRMA. Below is the blurb (lifted from last year): Perry - can you confirm (or deny) any of this yet? --- Digital Signal Processing: Spectral and Physical Models (DSP) 2 weeks June 23rd - July 4th, 2008 (to be confirmed) Perry Cook, Xavier Serra (text from 2007, 2008's blurb may vary) This course will cover analysis and synthesis of sounds based on spectral and physical models. Models and methods for synthesizing real-world sounds, as well as musical sounds, will be presented. The course will be organized into morning lectures, covering theoretical aspects of the models, and afternoon lab sessions. The morning lectures will present topics such as Fourier theory, spectrum analysis, the phase vocoder, digital waveguides, digital filter theory, pitch detection, linear predictive coding (LPC), high-level feature extraction, and various other aspects of signal processing of interest in sound applications. The afternoon labs will be hands-on sessions using SMS, the Synthesis ToolKit in C++, Matlab, and other software systems and utilities. Familiarity with engineering, mathematics, physics, and programming will be useful, but the lectures and labs will be geared to a musical audience with basic experience in math and science. Most of the programs used in the workshop will be available to take home. Given the short duration of the workshop and the broad spectrum of topics to cover, the lectures will be comprehensive in nature. However, a full complement of in-depth readings will be provided for those who wish to investigate the details of the material. Also, the last two days of the workshop will include a more detailed treatment of some advanced topics and the corresponding afternoon labs will give the students a chance to solve some specific problems of their interest. --- Hope this helps, Ge!