Music technology is the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or perform music; to compose, notate, play back or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music.
Music Technology is very interesting to me because It’s really many different fields.
This deck is from a lecture on the fundamentals of Music Technology, given in Lagos Nigeria, at the one year anniversary of Strictly Music Group.
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About Me
I’m Jehoshaphat I. Abu a polymath and an advocate of STEAM
education.
I'm studying Computer Science (also Music) with Specialization in
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
I'm also a multi-disciplinary artist, designing sounds and
composing music for Film, Games & TV, interactive installation
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5. Music Technology is very
interesting to me because It’s
really many different fields.
In particular it’s both...
6. ➢ A creative practice
➢ Making Music
➢ A technical pursuit
➢ A research to develop new tools
and technologies
➢ An Algorithm to help us make and
disseminate and understand music
in different ways
7. Inherently Interdisciplinary
➢ Music theory and Composition
➢ Electrical engineering
➢ Computer science
➢ Mechanical engineering
➢ Desktop design
➢ Psychology and
➢ Many others
9. Algorithmic composition
Audio engineering
Audio recording
Audio source separation
Audio synthesis
Audio watermarking
Composition
Computer music languages
Digital rights management
Digital signal processing
Film music
Game music
Interactive music
Music Technology Subfields
10. Live coding
Live sound
Locative music
Machine musicianship
Modular synthesis
Multimedia performance
Music distribution
Music engraving
Music identification
Music information retrieval
Music production
Musical instrument design
Network music
New musical interfaces
Psychoacoustics
Real-time music notation
19. Academic Study
➢ Online courses
➢ Degree programs
➢ Georgia Tech MS and PhD programs in
music technology
➢ Pompeu Fabra University Msc Sound and
Music Computing