Musical composition is essentially the creation of sound, frequency and vibration. We create a series of sounds, frequencies and vibrations by putting them together. While there are seemingly ...

Students pursuing the Bachelor of Music in Composition develop a set of essential skills that prepare them to become independent music creators and thinkers. They are introduced to a wide array of ...

Audio - Realtime and file (WAV, AIFF, etc) MIDI - Realtime and file (MID) OSC - Realtime Csound - Realtime and score file FOMUS - File (LilyPond and others) We've already considered Grace as a ...

A musical composition designed to take well over 600 years to play has gone through its first chord change in seven years. Entitled “As Slow as Possible” (ASLSP), the composition by the late American ...

ORONO, Maine (WABI) - After 25 years, a composer finally saw his score performed live as it made it’s North American debut Saturday night, at Minsky Recital Hall at the University of Maine. When ...

Undergraduate composition majors begin their studies immediately with individual private lessons and weekly attendance at composition seminars. The program aims to build a solid technical and musical ...

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) have investigated to which extent a piece of music can evoke expectations about its progression. They were able to ...

Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...

Dave leads a guided tour of three Linux software packages designed for making music by the numbers. Over the next few weeks my articles will focus on software systems designed with special ...

Find and develop your own compositional voice and learn how to turn your musical ideas into dynamic performances and published works. Students hone their skills in styles they are passionate about ...

Modern theatre, documentary movies, video games—music composition for the entertainment industry has evolved. Study it all with Michigan Tech’s innovative Music Composition minor (FAMC). The program ...