Introduction

Personal Sound Concepts guides you through listening to your surroundings with an ear towards producing work with the sound around you - the objects, spaces, and incidental noises of your environment. It revolves around hearing differently, editing, and approaching these types of sounds when organizing them into music, reviewing how to process and utilize them.

The class is for artists of all kinds, as the concepts explored can be utilized towards any creative practice. The exercises in the latter half do require some basic sound production knowledge, though if you're just beginning, this class will give you a strong framework from which to develop and explore. The class is not about learning the technology of music software or a digital audio workstation, but is about ideas for using the technology, and approaching the work, differently.

The class is designed to be flexible and at your pace, especially in this format, where the sequence is set up in a specific way but the time structure is completely up to the individual. Each section outlines the basic ideas being explored, offers an assignment to explore those ideas in a concrete practice, and pairs it with supporting questions to help structure the practice itself.

If you'd like to book one-on-one sessions for more personalized direction or feedback, please go here and we can schedule a time that works for you.