Final sound design projects

May 8th, 2023

Each Spring semester, I give my students in DIGA 366 time at the end of the term to develop advanced creative projects. Because of our work together on the WFAE conference, they only had four weeks to pull these off. The results are still impressive! There were some live performance for Ableton Push, original sound […]

Young Sound Seekers Audio Camp

June 25th, 2022

There have been many highlights recently for my continuing community engagement project Young Sound Seekers. Arguably at the top of that list was a week-long summer camp that we developed and delivered in June 2022. The camp was a partnership with Atlantic Center for the Arts and Stetson’s office of Continuing Education and Outreach, and funded entirely […]

Final sound design projects

May 6th, 2022

In DIGA 366, I gave my students six weeks at the end of the term to develop advanced creative projects. There were a range of options, but only three requirements: reach for 4-6 minutes duration apply learning from the overall course sequence (DIGA 365 & 366) demonstrate improved skill with hardware or software tools The […]

Robot sound design

November 27th, 2021

In DIGA 365, I asked students to create an original sound design for a robot at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.

Young Sound Seekers

November 15th, 2020

Young Sound Seekers is a new community outreach program that creates opportunities for blind and partially-sighted youth to learn about natural soundscapes and audio field recording.

DIGAHERTZ 3

June 8th, 2019

My students in DIGA 366 put together the third edition of DIGAHERTZ, a concert to showcase their electronic music projects. This year, I had more students interested in sound design, so the program reflects that. The first half featured original sound designs for examples from music videos, anime, Cartoon Network, and classic animation. The second […]

Music Technology Recitals

April 15th, 2019

Three of Stetson’s Music Technology students recently presented their senior recitals on April 7. It was a really great joint concert, with Zach presenting a piece for chamber ensemble & field recordings, then Noah & Dylan collaborating on a hip-hop infused project about a failed Martian colony. The School of Music posted videos of these […]

Smartphone Sound Design 2018

November 16th, 2018

Using modular synthesizers, my DIGA 365 students had to design a cohesive set of sound effects for a smartphone interface. This was my second year assigning this sound design task to my students, and I once again enjoyed the results. The somewhat unpredictable nature of these hardware synthesizers requires students to generate lots of potential options […]

DIGAhertz 2

May 5th, 2018

For the second year in a row, students in my advanced electronic music course worked together to produce a concert of original works. Once again, Collective Church graciously hosted us and helped produce the live stream (which is still available as an archive here). Overall, it was another great learning experience and another great night […]

SNIBITZ

February 28th, 2018

In the Spring 2018, I was able to work out an agreement with Essential Pianos, who generously loaned us a Yamaha Disklavier grand piano for two full weeks. The Disklavier is a fully acoustic piano with added mechanics that allow it to be controlled by computer using MIDI. My students and I held a joint […]