Teaching Materials
Students begin to understand how we use audition in everyday life, and are introduced to the challenges of audition for humans and machines.
Students learn about the properties of sound waves and how they impact the music we hear. They focus on the relationship between amplitude and volume, frequency and pitch, and higher harmonics and timbre.
Students learn about the mechanics of audition in both humans and machines, including the anatomy of the human ear and the hardware design of microphones.
Students focus on the ways in which the human brain processes sound, and how computers use different data representations to understand the sounds they hear.
Students gain confidence and understanding through a CAPstone project in which they design a human-AI collaborative music generation program.