[SUTD Bands] Introduction to Digital Music

[joel-huang]

SUTD Bands | Introduction to Digital Music

Explore the ideas behind transforming human input to sound, the completeness of MIDI as a language of music, and learn the basics of designing and manipulating sounds using software synthesizers. Understand that there are new, innovative ways to make music.

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Pre-requisites

We will try to make it as beginner-friendly as possible, but it's recommended attendees should have some prior musical experience to understand certain concepts.

What's covered?

• Understand how protocols like MIDI help to capture (fully or not) musician expressiveness.
• Understand how computers synthesize sounds.
• Learn how to analyze common sounds.
• Hands-on session: Learn how to synthesize the sounds you want.
• Understand that music innovation is at a standstill, and what we can do about it.

Session details

• Date: 4th June (Week 3, Tuesday)
• Preferred location: TT16/17
• Timing: 6-8pm
• Capacity: 20

Speakers/Workshop facilitators

Joel and friends from SUTD Bands

Logistical details

SUTD Bands will provide all equipment. Attendees are free to bring their own music making objects, but no mayonnaise please.

[Fishbiscuit]

how many people do you expect for this event?

[joel-huang]

Updated capacity to 20 under session details @Fishbiscuit

[tlkh]

https://discover.sutd.dev/events.html#intro-digital-music