H85.1015 Production 2 Credits
Instructor(s): Guillermo Brown
This course will give students a framework to practice and create music that has come to be known as electronica. An expansive, constantly morphing genre, electronica now includes styles as diverse as: house, trance, techno, glitch, freestyle, breakbeat, jungle, dub, grime, industrial, drum 'n bass, chillout, new age, experimental hip hop, hardcore, broken beat, downtempo and ambient. This course will investigate some of the defining musical systems, sounds, figures and concepts in electronica, culling examples from the beginnings of recorded sound to the present. Through weekly recorded assignments, text, listening and viewing assignments, students will consider some of the most intriguing figures/styles in electronic music as signposts for their own work. A 7-week production-based companion course to the Topics in Recorded Music: Electronica course.
