Enhancing the Experiential Aspects of COMP4441 Computer Music

Project Overview
Project Title	Enhancing the Experiential Aspects of COMP4441 Computer Music
Project Leader	Prof Andrew Horner
School / Dept	SENG / CSE
Project Duration	Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Project Description	The project was proposed to achieve the following objectives: To increase the experiential aspects of COMP4441 Computer Music and to adopt a more open-ended approach so that students can reflect on and apply what they learn. In particular, to incorporate musical effects into interactive, hands-on, experiential labs where students can experiment with the parameters and hear the effects directly for themselves to deepen their understanding and appreciation. Students will follow-up their lab work with short reflective exercises to understand how what they have learned in lecture and lab applies to ambient sounds in daily life, listening to recorded music, and live concerts. They will generalize and apply what they have learned in the lecture and labs to develop a music app or game for the student-led course project on a topic of their choosing, where students can build anything that combines music and computers. This allow them to explore and deepen their interests.
Project Outcome	Redesigned the Computer Music class as an experiential class with a sense of adventure, magic, fantasy, and mystery like a Harry Potter potions or charms class at Hogwarts. Made each lab assignment a wild and seemingly unachievable musical adventure, and structured the entire course around these challenges The list of the labs created: Lab1: Music in a Universe without Time Lab2: Interstellar X Lab3: Alien Ringtones Lab4: Music for Kings and Congregations Lab5: Congregation Horror Story Lab6: Congregation Love Song Lab7: Congregation Misery Lab8: Hello Kitty Soundbites Lab9: Gatekeeper of Hell Lab10: Star Wars Lightsaber Duel Final Project: Mind-Bending Mood Warping or Mutant Animal Orchestra
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

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