Name of Workshop: Audio for Content Creators

Total Hours: 9 (1-hr Break)

Workshop Description: Students will learn the essentials of audio production, including how to achieve good levels, how to use broadcast microphones and how to digitally edit audio for Radio, Podcasts, Youtube and Television Productions. This course is a combination of

Name of Workshop: Audio for Content Creators

Total Hours: 9 (1-hr Break)

Workshop Description: Students will learn the essentials of audio production, including how to achieve good levels, how to use broadcast microphones and how to digitally edit audio for Radio, Podcasts, Youtube and Television Productions. This course is a combination of hands-on and lecture components.

Workshop Learning Outcomes

Successful completion of this workshop will enable the student to:

• Explain the operation of conventional broadcast audio equipment.
• Describe the audio signal path taken from source to final destination.
• Employ appropriate audio software and hardware to record and play back various sound sources, as well as editing and mixing sound files to create more complex projects.
• Identify and explain terms associated with broadcast audio.
• Compare and contrast analogue and digital technologies.
• Determine equipment needs for specific remote broadcast functions and implement appropriate technologies.
• Identify and explain various audio file types, their uses, advantages and disadvantages.

Name of Workshop: Basics of Beat Making

Total Hours: 9 (1 Day - 1 hour break)

Workshop Description: This foundational workshop offers a practical, hands-on approach to drum and beat making, catering to the current music landscape. Students will learn to construct, perform, and record various grooves for contemporary popular music. The workshop

Name of Workshop: Basics of Beat Making

Total Hours: 9 (1 Day - 1 hour break)

Workshop Description: This foundational workshop offers a practical, hands-on approach to drum and beat making, catering to the current music landscape. Students will learn to construct, perform, and record various grooves for contemporary popular music. The workshop covers essential components of the acoustic drum set, beat programming, world rhythms, drum machines, sampling, and groove looping. Analyzing both classic rhythmic theory and drum programming exercises, students will become familiar with creating and manipulating beats using digital samplers and software instruments on Iphones/smart phones and iPads/tablets and laptop computers.

Workshop Outcomes:

Successful completion of this workshop will enable the student to:

1. Describe beat production, programming, looping, and sampling.
2. Explain and illustrate the fundamental elements of contemporary rhythmic theory and world beat composition.
3. Compose and arrange beats using iPad, laptop computers, software instruments, and music IOS applications.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe beat production, programming, looping, and sampling.

   • Discuss the application of beats in music for digital media productions.
   • Discuss how energy, emotion, and mood are created in the rhythmic composition process.
   • Identify elements of beat production, drum programming, and electroacoustic sampling.
   • Discuss the practical application of beat creation in a modern recording studio.
   • Discuss the implications of the history of drum sampling and programming on the process of creating, composing, and recording beats and grooves.

2. Explain and illustrate the fundamental elements of contemporary rhythmic theory and world beat composition.

   • Identify key, grid, time signature, scales, tempo, push and pull, and rhythm.
   • Explain techniques of dynamics, tension and release, and call and response.
   • Describe the application of world beat form and structure in rhythmic composition.
   • Distinguish between genres and styles of drum patterns, grooves, and rhythms.
   • Identify and reproduce drum patterns, programming, and sampling techniques.

3. Compose and arrange beats with iPad, laptop computers, software instruments, and IOS music applications.

   • Compose drum patterns, grooves, and fills that support song structure.
   • Assemble beats using current technology.
   • Discuss and apply techniques and principles of drum arrangement to original compositions.
   • Discuss drum instrumentation in music genres.
   • Compose drum mixes using EQ, compression, time-based, and parallel effects techniques.

Prerequisites: Interest or aptitude in creative and performing arts, assessed through an application questionnaire.

Required Student Resources: Students are advised to contact us before purchasing any technologies (laptop, iPad, software instruments, applications, recording devices, microphones, headphones, and storage devices). A list of recommended technologies and suppliers will be provided during the workshop.

Optional Student Resources: Contact us for a list of books.

Nomadic Sound Research is committed to providing academic accommodations for students with documented disabilities. Contact us for requests and further information regarding academic accommodations.

Prepared By: Dave Gray

Name of Workshop: Essentials in Audio Creation for Gaming

Total hours: 9 (1-hr break)

Workshop Description: The introduction workshop will cover audio creation techniques, studio recording, sound manipulation, sound design, dialogue and foley applications for digital gaming. Students will observe audio creation concepts such as recording sounds,

Name of Workshop: Essentials in Audio Creation for Gaming

Total hours: 9 (1-hr break)

Workshop Description: The introduction workshop will cover audio creation techniques, studio recording, sound manipulation, sound design, dialogue and foley applications for digital gaming. Students will observe audio creation concepts such as recording sounds, applying effects, proper integration of audio and mixing techniques particular for the non-linear gaming platform. Students will assist the instructor in building a soundscape for various aspects of a modern game and leave this course with a basic foundation of knowledge in the audio creation for a digital game. This 9 hour workshop is for the students to observe and assist the instructor in creating audio for a digital game.

Workshop Learning Outcomes:

Success completion on this workshop will enable the student to:

• Develop An Awareness In The Psychology Of Music For Interactive Non-Linear Gaming Environments.
• Discover Sound Composition, Recording And Mixing.
• Analyze Basic Gaming Soundtracks Incorporating Dialogue, Sound Design, And Music.
• Work With A Variety Of Tools To Complete A Game Audio Backdrop Using Sound Found Sounds.
• Identify Audio Recordings For A Digital Game.
• Understand Dramatic Implications Through Analysis Of Visual Examples.
• Discover Digital Gaming Technology Involved In Creation Of Dramatic Content.

Name of Workshop: Learning Live Sound and Recording

Total Hours: 9 (1-hr break)

Workshop Description: This workshop teaches students hands-on engineering techniques that will give the students practical skillsneeded in order to obtain employment in today’s live music venues. The students learn the foundations in live mixing consoles, microphones,

Name of Workshop: Learning Live Sound and Recording

Total Hours: 9 (1-hr break)

Workshop Description: This workshop teaches students hands-on engineering techniques that will give the students practical skills needed in order to obtain employment in today’s live music venues. The students learn the foundations in live mixing consoles, microphones, monitors, DI boxes and much more. The small workshop and student to instructor ratio ensure the time needed to order to prepare for the world of professional live sound engineering.

Workshop Learning Outcomes:

Successful completion of this workshop will enable the student to:

• Identify important elements within live sound engineering, including the identification of the types of sounds, acoustical environments and how they work in a professional mix.
• Build a high-quality mix using analog and digital mixing consoles and basic PA systems.
• Apply logistical and managerial techniques to help manage equipment, setup teams, road crews and venues.
• Use microphone technique, equalization, effects, and dynamics.