Music production with free software. Discover the creative potential with open and collaborative tools.
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No prior knowledge required
No unnecessary risks
These three courses offer you the opportunity to explore the exciting world of music using open tools. Through a collaborative approach, immerse yourself in a process of musical discovery, learning how to use free, professional-quality software to compose and record your own songs, edit and master your music.
Each course focuses on projects designed to inspire the student to develop their musical creativity in collaboration with others, regardless of preferred style or aesthetic.
In this course you will learn the basics of producing your first music, using a technological tool available online based on free software. Each module deals with key issues in music production, both theoretically and practically, which will serve you to develop your own personal music production project.
In this course you will learn to produce music using Ardour software. We will work on publishing, recording and post-production of a musical project. By the end of the course, you will know when your musical arrangement is ready to be recorded, how to choose the most suitable microphones and how to place them, as well as the work after recording. We will end the course with a spoken recording, ready for distribution.
This course is dedicated to examining aesthetic trends that arise from the intersection of musical experimentation and the philosophical ideas of free software and the open source movement. We will examine several perspectives of collaborative music that rely on the idea that human creations should be freely shared. From musical re-arrangements to live coding, we will survey various artistic proposals throughout the four modules of the course, and as a basis for discussing the cases that will be discussed in the course, students will develop a series of sonic projects that will be shared under Creative Commons licenses.
