an audio tour around CSMA This is a piece of sound-based music, music that is built on sounds from the world around us rather than instruments. It was made by members of our Cello Camp last year, and is an audio exploration of the sounds of CSMA. As a short excerpt, it gives listeners a chance to experience a casual walk around the campus, remixed to be a kind of music. CSMA AUDIO WALK

Labels: cello camp, musique concrete

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  new imagery! Here are some of the wonderful images that came out of our first Computers and Arts Camp of the year, taught by Jano Cortijo and Rebecca Miller.

Labels: computers and art camp, jano cortijo, rebecca miller

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  at work in the digital lab   ¶ 3:01 PM

  recent project
Here's an image from Rebecca Miller's Digital Imagery class.   ¶ 1:41 PM

  classes offered The best way to get the full list of classes offered in our Digital New Media program is to download this catalog.  

Labels: digital arts catalog classes

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  getting ready for the spring Here in Digital Arts, we're gearing up for the Spring Semester!  We've got a lot of exciting plans for the upcoming season.  Starting next month, we'll offer our first ever Vacation Camp during February, from the 18th to 22nd.  The class will be taught by Marcos Saenz, a professional performer, digital musician, and guitar instructor.  The camp will look at ways to use Propellerhead's Reason software to make your own songs, recorded onto a CD.  

Marcos is also going to be teaching a six-week afternoon class in Reason software, starting Monday, February 4th. If you've ever been curious about this software, here's a chance to learn the basics plus lots of fun tips and techniques!

If you're over 21, you can check out Marcos's band at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco on January 30th.

-Roddy

Labels: digital music, marcos saenz, reason software, spring semester

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  new classes starting October 29th We have some exciting intermediate and advanced classes coming up in a few weeks! Check it out:

MONDAYS: INTERMEDIATE (4 o'clock) AND ADVANCED (6 o'clock) DIGITAL AUDIO PRODUCTION
Join performing musician Marcos Saenz in exploring digital composition and recording techniques. These exciting classes will move from Reason software into ProTools, allowing you access to world-class tools and hardware to realize your own projects, whether it be recording your practice sessions or a live concert.


TUESDAYS: INTERMEDIATE (4 o'clock) AND ADVANCED (6 o'clock) FLASH ANIMATION CLASSES
Learn to take your work to the next level with Rebecca Miller's Flash Animation Classes. She will help you build upon your previous knowledge, and teach new ways to develop your ideas into fun moving visuals ready to be posted on the web, used in your portfolio, or for your next art project.


FRIDAYS: INTERMEDIATE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION (4 o'clock) AND DIGITAL IMAGERY (6 o'clock) CLASSES
Internationally recognized professional artist Rebecca Miller takes students on a creative journey through visual design, focusing on usage of Adobe Illustrator in the Graphic Illustration class or Adobe Photoshop in the Digital Imagery Class. Both classes are perfect for students who have previously taken a Digital class and wish to learn intermediate techniques and explore new areas.  ¶ 12:34 PM

  the summer flies by It's been a hectic summer here at CSMA. So hectic, in fact, we haven't had time to update the blog in quite some time! There have been summer camps, field trips, hopeful American Idols training, and lots more. Our fall-semester resolution is to keep this blog updated more thoroughly with lots of new content, and a new design as well. Stay tuned, there are exciting things on the horizon!

Labels: ableton live, american idol, blog updates, digital arts, summer camp

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  no, they're not interviewing the trees A few of our Digital Music students are making field recordings for their group composition project.




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  new work from computers and art camp This is a piece by Nicole Falsetti, a student in our recent Computers and Art camp taught by Rebecca Miller. The creativity and design of the image is striking.

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  Here are the final Digital Audio Projects produced by students in our Summit Digital Arts program. Congratulations, they turned out great!

Black Cloud (by Austin Fosnes)

Clocks (by Claire Harding)

Lucas's Song (by Lucas Klein)

Puppies of Death (by Kyle Joswiak)

Tech Con (by Aaron Klein)

Technologic (by Eliot Bartz)

Transmission (by Scott Kidd)

Untitled (by Nathaniel Wynne and Ryan Soler)

Untitled (by Wynton Kitzmiller)

Untitled (by Andy Stine)

Drent Poge and the Seven Telstorfs (by Elias Simon)  ¶ 4:17 PM

  A Couple Digital Postcards From Summit Students

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