Electronics: A Partner to Instrumental Playing

Public: Conservatory professors (instruments, song, chamber music, computer-assisted music)

Objectives

• Become autonomous in the implementation of mixed music works with simple materials and ready-to-use software programs
• Develop the musicality of playing with electronics
• Include electronics in classes on instruments or song while developing educational possibilities for playing with electronics.

Program

• Choose, implement, and hook up the necessary material
• Master the software that is appropriate and ready to use on a personal computer
• Explore situations of interactions between instrument/voice and live transformations
• Recognize, by hearing, certain types of transformations used in the mixed music repertoire and use them in an educational setting
• Work and present a piece from the mixed music repertoire alone, with the goal of teaching it to students.

Registration Deadline: February 1, 2013