256a-fall-2025/hw1

Homework #1: Reading Response + Design Etude + ChucK Exercise

• due date: Tuesday (9/29) 11:59pm

Part 1: Reading Response

• Reading response to Artful Design Prelude + Chapter 1
  • if you are still waiting for your copy of the book, here are PDFs of the Prelude and Chapter 1 (please do not distribute)
    • Prelude
    • Chapter 1
  • see guidelines | check out sample response boilerplate

Part 2: Design Etude

• Design Etude #1 (see online PDF OR AD Chapter 1 pg. 54)
• Make sure to do all three parts of the etude (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3).
• Think as broadly as possible about your examples of "artful design"! TRY TO AVOID EVERYDAY OBJECTS IN YOUR LIFE, but instead consider experiences, organizations, policies, contexts, interactions...anything you would consider to be designed!

Part 3: Programming

• Create a ChucK/ChuGL program that makes sound AND has real-time animated graphics!
• link this from your reading response webpage.

Part 4: Creating your 256a/476a CCRMA webpage

• to make your 256a/476a CCRMA webpage, check out this snazzy guide
• for new CCRMA system users, check out CCRMA user account guide

Deliverables

• upload to Canvas:
  • the URL to your reading response + design etude
  • a PDF file of your response + design etude
  • your ChucK file(s)
• come prepared to present and discuss your work in class