Peter Bussigel, one of our newest faculty, is teaching three courses during the Fall 2015 semester. Check them out below…
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MICE // Mobile Interactive Computing Ensemble
MUSI 4535 // M & W from 5-6:15 // Old Cabell Hall
B011 (VCCM, Computer Lab)

The mice ensemble makes live electronic music using handmade instruments and controllers. As part of mice, you will build your own electronic/acoustic instruments, learn about real-time audio processing, compose new pieces for the ensemble, and perform in the community. The majority of our time will be spent improvising as a group and rehearsing participant-designed sound structures. We will also hold workshop sessions about microphones, speakers, controllers, and Max/MSP. An open approach to music-making and live performance is the only requirement—undergraduate, graduate, & faculty participants are welcome. Questions? email [email protected]

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Systems for Play
MUSI 4520 // T & Th 12:30-1:45 // Old Cabell Hall
B012

This is a course in experimental and game-based approaches to art-making and performance. Drawing on a broad range of methods, from event scores to game design to pataphysics, we examine recent experimental practices and create our own scores, scripts, rules, and other systems for structuring play. Short projects serve both as prompts for art-making and opportunities to think critically and generatively about the systems with/in which we live. This is an intermedia production course, there are no prerequisites, and all students are welcome.

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Intermedia Composition
MUSI 7559 // Th 5-7:15 // Old Cabell Hall
B011 (VCCM, Computer Lab)

This graduate seminar is organized around questions related to composing and music-making within today’s rapidly changing techno-culture. Using the concept of intermedia as a point of departure, we will think about how our field(s) and practices have evolved, explore the media structures within which we currently operate, and speculate about future trajectories in music composition, sound art, and performance.

The course format is designed to provide a weekly space and time for critical discussion about music & technology and to engage with perspectives outside of our own practices. The first part of the semester is structured around short readings and participant-led discussions on topics related to sound, performance, listening, and theory (critical, musical). The second half of the semester brings these conversations and perspectives to our own work—you will propose a project, present work-in-progress, and participate in constructive discussions and critiques informed by relevant readings/materials. This course is open to graduate students working with/thinking about sound and new media through any lens (CCS/T).