Workshops

Let's see if we can get a few short workshops together on stuff that's related to the course, but not so closely that we should be covering it in class. Here are a few ideas - feel free to add the the list:
 * 1) Ableton Live - a great music production program. Fairly complicated, but flexible and great for developing ideas, especially electronic music. Used by tons of dj's and dance musicians, but also by sound artists, pop acts and others.
 * 2) GarageBand - great for putting together quick arrangements. Super user-friendly and an excellent introduction to making music with conputers
 * 3) Pure Data (puredata.info) - half program, half programming language. Used by artists for music, sound, video, installations, interactivity, robotics...
 * 4) Processing - a programming language focused on (but not exclusively) video and graphics. Great for doing stuff you can't do with regular software, like Pure Data. But it's a programming language. Not sure how much we can cover in an hour.
 * 5) Pure Data and Processing have a lot in common - a 45-minute survey of both might be interesting.
 * 6) Mastering a track (very difficult - this would just be basics)
 * 7) Analog synthesis - some basic (classic) sound design
 * 8) Careers in audio production and sound editing?

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