Description
The use of digital and analogue electronics has presumably changed our relation to time in music, and the relation of technique to content is a puzzling one. As electronic musicians we therefore have to examine some basic questions: Can we learn to perceive time in a different way; can we imagine a sound we have never heard before; is time in music the same as time in nature; how does our perception of time relate to time measured by a physical process; is counting the same as measuring duration? During the course, ideas drawn from traditional music, natural processes, mathematics and cognitive science will be examined as inspiration for a new theory of time and representation in music. Students who follow this course will gain an insight into number theory, adaptive systems, generative grammar, linear and non-linear dynamics and the phenomenology of time perception.
Date, time and location
2016-2017
Mondays from 13:30 - 15:30 hrs.
First class on Monday 12 September 2016.
Final class on Monday 19 June 2017.
PLEASE NOTE: no classes on: 17 October and 24 October, 26 December 2016, and 2 January, 17 April and 24 April and 5 June 2017!
Location:
Varèsezaal, Royal Conservatoire, Juliana van Stolberglaan 1, 2595 CA Den Haag, 070 315 15 15
Registration
Register for this course via [uSis](http://usis.leidenuniv.nl/ "uSis").
For other courses in the domains of music and fine arts, please visit:
[Elective courses music and fine arts](https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/academy-of-creative-and-performing-arts/education "Elective courses music and fine arts")