Adrienne DeWolfe, DJ Spooky (Paul Miller)

Our workshop will allow students to make music by assembling and editing instrumental, sound effect, beat and spoken word samples together to form a composition. We hope they will:

1. consider issues of composition, musicianship, and improvisation in modern music;
2. build sampled music (without needing to have technical musical skill); and
3. understand how mathmatical concepts apply to music.

Participants will use a mixing board created by the team. They will plug in sensors to adjust and mix the music, producing songs composed of sound samples. All the action is physical, not on the computer. The students will learn that it is the content and creative ideas that drive self-expression.

Workshop Curriculum - the curriculum for our workshop, including learning goals for each section

Learning Goals - big ideas and what we hoped participants might learn

What We Learned - our reflections on the process of creating and running the workshops

Tech Specs - technical specifications for the hardware and software used for the workshop

How To - how you can reproduce the workshop in your own context

Process - major changes during the creation of the workshop, and our reasons for the decisions we made

Participants and Documentation - video, sound, and pictures from workshops 1 & 2