For the last two years, I have been part of Stetson’s Quality Enhancement Plan through my Electronic Music (DIGA 365) course. Our QEP is focussed on information literacy and teaching students to gather credible information from dependable sources. At first glance, it seems like a strange learning goal for a course emphasizing the production of […]
Each Spring semester, I give my students in DIGA 366 time at the end of the term to develop advanced creative projects. Because of our work together on the WFAE conference, they only had four weeks to pull these off. The results are still impressive! There were some live performance for Ableton Push, original sound […]
In DIGA 366, I gave my students six weeks at the end of the term to develop advanced creative projects. There were a range of options, but only three requirements: reach for 4-6 minutes duration apply learning from the overall course sequence (DIGA 365 & 366) demonstrate improved skill with hardware or software tools The […]
My students in DIGA 366 put together the third edition of DIGAHERTZ, a concert to showcase their electronic music projects. This year, I had more students interested in sound design, so the program reflects that. The first half featured original sound designs for examples from music videos, anime, Cartoon Network, and classic animation. The second […]
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 […]
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