FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENT & TECHNOLOGY

MODULAR PROGRAMME

ASSESSED COURSEWORK SPECIFICATION

Module Details:
Module Code:UFIEK4-20-2	Module Title: Computing, Audio and Music
Module Leader: (please print) Marcus Lynch
Module Tutors:
Pete Brandt			Pat O'Brien	Alan Price	Marcus Lynch

Assignment Element Number: Component B:2		Weighting: (% of the module's assessment) 15%		Total Assignment Time: (hours) 8 hours per student (in addition to tutorial time)
Dates:
Assignment issued to student Date: 4th November 2010			Assignment to be returned to student Date: Within 2 weeks of timetabled assessment session
Submission Place: 1N95			Submission Date: Presentation slots to be allocated in last two tutorial sessions of 2nd Semester
			Submission Time: In timetabled tutorial sessions December 9th & December 16th 2010		In timetabled tutorial sessions December 9th & December 16th 2010
Deliverables:
As per the attached Coursework specification

			Module Leader Signature:

UFIEK4-20-2: Computers, Audio and Music 2010-2011

Coursework Component B:2

Aims

You will work in a group of 2 people, using the EXS24 sampler in Logic* to create three sets of vocal samples, each distributed across the same one octave pitch.

* Note that we run computers with Logic installed so we teach and support work in Logic - if you choose to use another sampling package, we may not be able to advise you in detail as to how to work on this assignment. Note that the target machines for demonstrating your assignment work are the Macintosh computers in 1N95, so if you do work in other applications, it is your responsibility to ensure that you can present your vocal samples in Logic in 1N95.

Instructions

Choose a partner
Working with your partners, use the EXS24 sampler in Logic to create three sets of samples of pitched voice. These three sets of vocal samples should consist of one set of "Aah"s, one set of "Eee"s and one set of "Ooh"s (i.e. three vowel sounds). Each set of samples should be pitched across the same octave of pitch.
Each sample set should be mapped to a different octave of the keyboard. You should map the "Aah"s to C2-B2, the "Eee"s to C3- B3 and the "Ooh"s to C4 - B4
You should ensure that your samples loop smoothly, so that long notes will play without obvious audio artefacts
You will present your samples in tutorial sessions in the 11th / 12th weeks of the first semester by using your Audio Instrument to play to your tutors a sample composition (prepared by Pete Brandt, and to be made available by the tutorial on 2nd December at the latest).
At the same time as you play this composition, you should present to your tutors a short (maximum 2 sides of A4) print-out of a document with the names and student numbers of both group members, and any comments on your process of preparing your three sets of vocal samples.
Each member of the group will get equal marks unless written evidence of widely varying contributions is provided to Marcus Lynch at least three (3) days before the day of your presentation.

Deadlines

Vocal samples to be presented in Booths in 1N95 during timetabled tutorial sessions on Thursday December 9th & 16th 201. Slots will be publicised on Blackbaord.

Responsibility for Group Work

Every student who is part of a group undertaking an assignment or other piece of assessed group work is required to take, and will be deemed to have taken, individual as well as joint responsibility for all the work submitted by the group. In particular, this includes individual as well as group responsibility for any assessment offence committed, whether by the student or any other student in the group. Any penalty applied in the event of an assessment offence will normally be applied to all members of the group.

The two exceptions to the application of this penalty to all members of the group are:

where a member of a group acknowledges, in writing to the Dean of the faculty owning the module, that s/he has committed an assessment offence
where an offence can be shown to have been committed by (a) specific member(s) of the group responsible for those sections of the work that are the subject of the assessment offence.

In the case of these exceptions the penalty will only be applied to the member(s) of the group who have committed the assessment offence.

Marcus Lynch

Module Leader

Last updated : November 14, 2010