This semester Daniel Palkowski is instructing this class and I am in. [Here is the syllabus][1] for the class. In the first class we listened different pieces from different composers. The album was [Early Modulations, Vintage Volts][2] . We saw the differences between approach of composers to the electronic music, for example [Morton Subotnick][3] was leaning towards sequencing as opposed to what electro-acoustic of the time does with the sound. !!!Art Krieger!!! is one example and he seems like not enjoying what Morton does back in the time. It is interesting I couldn’t find any information mentioning this guy, probably I am writing his name wrong.

Some of the early electronic devices are:
20’s Theramin (live) Bernard Herman
20’s Vacuum tube
30’s Wire(Tape) Recorder ’ magnetic tape ‘
40’s EMC
60’s Synths like MOOG, ARP, BUCHLA, and
70’s Modular Synth

Actually I have found this [nice link about the electronic music timeline][4] through EMF Institute
Then we cover the basics of pitch, octave oscillation and concepts like what is a synth made of. It looks like an oscillator and filter and envelope generator is enough to make a synth. I am going to cover the titles in detail in the upcoming days.

So that is more or less what we cover in the first class.

[1]: http://itp.nyu.edu/~dhp1/syllabi/syll2frameset.htm
[2]: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00002EPKP/qid=1138199775/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_4/102-2472688-9522500?v=glance&s=music&n=507846
[3]: http://www.mortonsubotnick.com/
[4]: http://emfinstitute.emf.org/bigtimeline/1900s.html