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Electronic Music Composition for Teens July 21st-25th
Musicians, composers, and engineers have been producing music with electronic or electromechanical means since the early 1900’s. In this class we’ll review the history of electronic music and basic and intermediate methods and techniques to produce original electronic songs, compositions, or soundscapes. No previous knowledge of musical theory is required.
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Intro to Documentary Production for Teens August 4th-8th
Learn how to tell cinematic stories culled from your own life and experience. The history of documentary filmmaking from the inception of cinema to today will be covered. Students will also be instructed in professional documentary production with broadcast-quality sound and video equipment and editing software. |
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How to Use Your Macintosh July 14th-30th Mondays and Wednesdays
Is that PC computer making you feel depressed and awful about your computer skills and you’re ready to make the transition to Macintosh? Have you recently bought a Macintosh and are still unsure of how to fully use it? Enroll in this class! It’s painless and when you’re done your computing life will have been transformed! We’ll learn everything about how Macintosh computers work from the basics of the operating system to the finer points of Macintosh applications and web navigation.
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New Media and Electronic Arts Appreciation July 23rd-August 27th Wednesdays (no class on August 6th)
Leave your art expectations at the door! This salon-style class will present the rich history of installation, performance, and interactive art from post World War II on up to the present day. New Media theory and concepts will be discussed in depth in a round table, conversational manner. (Open to mature teens.)
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DIY Electronics for Artists July 29th-August 21st Tuesdays and Thursdays
The history of artists and musicians using unique electronic devices is long and rich: including John Cage, Nicolas Collins, Woody Vasulka and Jessica Rylan. This course will guide the artist/musician through the history of custom and re-purposed electronics for music, installation, and new-media projects. Students will also learn, through hands-on exercises, basic soldering skills, mounting and assembly of one-of-a-kind components and the fine art of “hacking into” a device (say, a video game circuit) to process information in ways not intended by the manufacturers.
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VideoDelic Improvisation August 4th-20th Mondays and Wednesdays
Group improvisation has been a mainstay of creative exploration for musicians working in the areas of jazz, new music and electronics for decades. Rarely have New Media artists exploited image- and sound-making tools for the same ends. We will explore both the history of improvisation in music, from John Cage to John Coltrane to Pink Floyd, and the history of using real-world tools and objects to control computer-generated video and sound. The final project of the class will be an ensemble-style group improvisation new media work using image and sound. We may even include a machine or a computer as a member of the ensemble! Students will learn the basics of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) and the dynamic, real-time video processing software IMX (available free at www.image-ine.org).
Prerequisite: Students must have working knowledge of Mac computers and Mac OS 10.4 or 10.5.
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