TECH 201: studio techniques

TECH 201 builds skills needed to create electroacoustic music within a studio environment. These skills including listening, recording (real-world sounds, instruments, and performance gestures), analysis (writing about the experience of listening to sound), discussion (practicing how to talk about your own and others’ music), absorbing repertoire from a diverse canon of electroacoustic music, and composition (the applied act of creation that incorporates all of the above). Additionally, technical skills related to both hardware and software, including how to use studio equipment (microphones, synthesizers, effects units) and compose music using a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), will be taught and tested.