spring/summer classes online! We're happy to announce that the Spring/Summer Digital Arts Catalog is online! If you plan on taking classes beginning in February, please sign up now, as we have limited spaces in our lab.

I'd like to encourage anyone who as questions regarding our program to please contact me, Roddy Schrock, if you should have any questions at all about our classes and the program as a whole.

--Roddy  ¶ 11:29 AM

  creative sampling Pete Miser, bi-coastal hip-hop genius, was on Soundcheck (a music show on WNYC online) today explaining his technique. What he does is he'll listen to a song he likes, find a riff, and then while listening to it over and over, try to recreate it on his own instruments. So if he hears something he likes, he completley tries to remake it, and he says he usually gets it wrong because he's not formally trained. But his wrong sounds pretty right.



--Roddy  ¶ 11:16 AM

  digital audio production

On Saturday I taught the Laptop Orchestra one-day intensive. The students made some great work. Here's a pic of Nic Chang working on his piece. You can listen to the first part of his song here. Nic played all the instruments, recorded them into ProTools running on our MacBook Pro, then used Ableton Live to add effects and arrange the piece.

Great job Nic, and everyone else!

--Roddy  ¶ 2:53 PM