Audio is arguably the most neglected time-based medium. In a visual world, sound is often seen as subservient to video, animation, and other visual media. However, the emergence of high quality sound cards on normal computers, along with the inexorable ongoing increases in processing power, ave resulted in the ability to produce studio quality sound at home.
 
This workshop takes a whirlwind tour of audio production using an open source (free!) audio editor called Audacity, which runs on Macs, Windows, and Linux. After learning what sound is, how it is created and perceived, and how it is processed digitally, you'll produce a brief multi-track digital audio piece that you can carry around with you. In other words, you'll make your own ringtone! Bring a jump drive with you so that you can take home a copy of your ringtone project and work with it on your own copy of Audacity.
Please bring a jump drive with you so that you will be able to take the ringtone that you create home with you.
 
Workshop Difficulty: 1
Room: 70-2570
Instructor: Al Biles
 
Al Biles is a professor in RIT's Interactive Games and Media department, where he teaches digital audio and computer music courses, among other things. He is the creator of GenJam (the Genetic Jammer), an evolutionary computation based realtime interactive performance system that improvises jazz and performs with Al on a regular basis.