Immersive Music Production and Performance

Catalog description

This course integrates music production, performance, audiovisual media, and technology as tools for creative expression and immersive intermedia storytelling. Aspiring producers, composers, songwriters, and performers gain hands-on experience in studio composition, music production and sound design, engaging both traditional and novel approaches while examining the relationships between sound, image, and live performance. Through lectures, critical listening and viewing, and a series of mini-projects, participants develop skills in recording, editing, and composing with audio and visual materials. The course emphasizes the use of software tools, including Max and digital audio workstations, to control musical and visual parameters in both fixed and live contexts. Students learn techniques for immersive spatial mixing to support expressive and narrative goals and apply these methods in original compositions and performances. By the end of the course, students produce and present immersive music and intermedia works that integrate sound, image, space, and live performance.