# Interdisciplinary Research Sem

## ARTS-4880

This is a course introducing music majors to advanced research topics of the Rensselaer music faculty. Each semester a member of the music faculty will focus the seminar on a research topic or paradigm related to their own body of artistic and technological research. Sample topics might include Spatial music and sound, New Instrument Design, Network Music, Music Information Retrieval, Ethnomusicology, Sonification Art and Science, Music and Logic, Spectralism and Beyond, Music Herstory (feminist music composition), Experimental music and sound history. Through hands-on creative research, students will explore questions of both musical and technological significance while engaging that same topic through their own hands-on creative practice.

4 credits
Cross-listed with:
ARTS-6880 Interdiscip Research Seminar
Prereqs:
one of:
ARTS-2380 Music And Sound I ARTS-2020 Music And Technology 1

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2026

Music & Online Cultures (4c)

- Kathleen A. Galloway

Seats Taken: 11/25

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2024

Music & Ai (4c)

- Robert Kyle Hamilton

Seats Taken: 7/19

2023

Game Sound Studies (4c)

- Kathleen A. Galloway

Seats Taken: 10/19

2022

Spatial Music & Sound (4c)

- Matthew William Goodheart

Seats Taken: 14/19

2021

Listening In The Anthropocene (4c) [CI]

- Stephanie D Loveless

Seats Taken: 9/19

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2019

Interdisciplinary Research Sem (4c)

- Christopher James Fisher-Lochhead

Seats Taken: 2/19

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