Three of Stetson’s Music Technology students recently presented their senior recitals on April 7. It was a really great joint concert, with Zach presenting a piece for chamber ensemble & field recordings, then Noah & Dylan collaborating on a hip-hop infused project about a failed Martian colony. The School of Music posted videos of these […]
Using modular synthesizers, my DIGA 365 students had to design a cohesive set of sound effects for a smartphone interface. This was my second year assigning this sound design task to my students, and I once again enjoyed the results. The somewhat unpredictable nature of these hardware synthesizers requires students to generate lots of potential options […]
For the second year in a row, students in my advanced electronic music course worked together to produce a concert of original works. Once again, Collective Church graciously hosted us and helped produce the live stream (which is still available as an archive here). Overall, it was another great learning experience and another great night […]
In the Spring 2018, I was able to work out an agreement with Essential Pianos, who generously loaned us a Yamaha Disklavier grand piano for two full weeks. The Disklavier is a fully acoustic piano with added mechanics that allow it to be controlled by computer using MIDI. My students and I held a joint […]
In the Fall 2017 semester, I introduced my DIGA 365 students to Eurorack hardware synthesizers. As a way to explore these devices, I added a new project that required students to design sounds for a smart phone, including a ringtone, social media alert, and messaging. Most students found it fun to take control of these sounds […]
This year, the second semester of my Computer Music sequence (DIGA 462) was structured more as a peer working group. Students were responsible for developing two large-scale projects that fell within several pre-defined categories, and bringing their work-in-progress to class each week for comment and critiques. I worked on projects too and brought them in […]
This spring semester, I once again lead our Digital Arts juniors in a service learning project at the local Boys & Girls Club. The Stetson students designed a game that could be used to introduce key programming concepts to the kids at the club using Processing. In addition, they were responsible for documenting their work […]
It was hard to take over this year’s DIGA 361: Audio Recording & Production course after the loss of my colleague Ethan Greene. He is still sorely missed by me and the students, who were all looking forward to working with him in the sound studio this term. In many ways, these are his students; I […]
This spring semester, I lead our Digital Arts juniors in a service learning project at the local Boys & Girls Club. We used Processing (which our majors all learned in Intro to Computing) to build a racing game and taught the kids about basic coding concepts. You can learn more about the workshop through this video produced […]
This summer, I returned to online teaching for Stetson with CSCI 111Q Intro to Computing. This course uses Processing to introduce fundamental programming concepts and is required of all Digital Arts majors at Stetson. I enjoyed the opportunity to review these concepts myself and get my feet wet with Processing, which I now find to […]
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