Jennifer Burg, Jason Romney, Bill Manaris, Brian Evans, Joe Pino

Jennifer Burg, Wake Forest University
Jason Romney, University of North Carolina, School of the Arts
Bill Manaris, College of Charleston
Brian Evans, University of Alabama
Joe Pino, Carnegie-Mellon University

This panel will engage the audience in a consideration of how sound and music can be introduced into digital media courses. Practical issues will be reviewed, such as hardware and software requirements ranging from the minimal to the more advanced. Examples of courses and creative assignments will be presented by the panelists. The possibilities of introducing computational thinking by means of sound and music will also be explored. One panelist will describe an introductory-level course that ends in the students’ creation of virtual instruments, original compositions, and a laptop orchestra performance. An example assignment from another panelist will ask students to translate the composition of a classic piece of art into a sound design. A third example project will show how the visual and the sonic can be integrated by computational means. The audience will be involved in a consideration of how sound can be integrated into their own courses, whether these courses exist in art, graphic design, of interdisciplinary areas.