Hi All, and welcome to 2020.
My name is Todd Reynolds, and I’m very pleased to be working with you.
In this class, my official goal and responsibility is to give you a window into the studio practices of electronic music. Yes, I know, most of you have listened to TONS of it, as have I, probably all along the spectrum from popular to semi-popular to sometimes unpopular music.
It is my world professionally, and as a performer and composer, I use software to create, edit and produce my work. We’ll deal with that in very specific ways in class, with projects and assignments which will give you a view of what some of the people you listen to do to create their work, and with an eye to how to deepen and refine our own practice and listening.
My primary goal, however, is to raise listening and analysis of music to a level which supports your own creativity and practice, and which gives you a path to use whatever tools you touch and choose more efficiently and productively to make your own music, whatever that may be.
Your grade and fulfillment of the class is detailed by percentage in the syllabus, but in theory, what you put into it is what you’ll get out of it. Your time and effort spent and exerted in the computer music studio will be evident in your work, and conversations in class and writings and musings on this blog will be equally considered as a measure of your understanding and participation. Please ask questions as much as you would like on the blog, in fact, it is an asset when you do, as others can learn from the questions and answers dealt with here. I will only step in when I see no answers coming from colleagues. The blog should be populated by you more than me.
Enough said by me. Your turn. Really happy to have you aboard, and I look forward to working with you.
