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Students will receive weekly mentoring that involves critical feedback and recommendations regarding the student’s developing artistic and technical skills in compositional form, software and notation. The objective of this mentoring is to prepare the student’s portfolio for professional life upon graduation.

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TAC forum is a place for all TAC students to get together every week and discuss important topics in music, composition, sound design, emerging media and more. Many weeks we will have special industry guests joining us, from composers to sound designers, engineers and producers. This is a chance to broaden horizons and meet your idols!

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This course explores the inner workings of a recording studio and surveys the intricate components involved in the creation of audio recordings. Classes are designed to deliver hands-on experience with recording equipment in both analog and digital systems. This is an advanced course for students who are particularly interested in the technical aspects of recording. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: select the appropriate equipment and recording techniques needed to record an ensemble with both multitrack and stereo systems; design and implement analog, digital, and Audio over IP (AoIP) systems; trace and document the signal flow of a recording system; setup and calibrate a sound system and listening environment; identify and implement various signal processors (EQ, compression, reverb). Students in this course will work with and develop a deeper understanding of state-of-the-art analog, digital, and IP-based audio systems.

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"Through group listening, discussion and guided projects students explore their roles as artists in contemporary context with a focus on genre-agnostic language, the human-technology relationship and electroacoustic music. By finding common musical terminology students open themselves further to diverse concert experiences, and apply these concepts to their own creative output. "

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This two-semester course sequence provides an intensive study of the variety of orchestration challenges found in modern scoring for media including cinema, video games, television, commercials, and albums. Extensive score study, active listening, and analysis of media scoring and music production are integral to how students will solve genre-specific orchestration issues. A wide variety of orchestration assignments typically found in media scoring are given throughout each semester, including orchestrating for soloists, world instruments, contemporary rhythm sections, and orchestral ensembles found on the scoring stage. The course sequence starts in the Fall semester and continues through the Spring semester. Graduate students only.

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Students practice the art of mixing and mastering audio for efficiency and excellence in sound. Students learn to organize and manage content, files, documentation, and prepare mixed deliverables. Students develop their ears for mixing and mastering through hands-on exercises and listening assignments enabling confidence and learning best practices for sharing content.

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This course will build upon the compositional techniques taught in the fall semester and explore their application in different musical forms. Much of this semester will focus on thematic composition, the techniques of variation, imitation, and development, and the fundamentals of scoring to picture. DAWs will be used to realize and execute projects with larger instrumentation and/or compositions applied to visual media. The keyboard will continue to be emphasized as the primary and most essential compositional tool for this course. Students will regularly present or perform their work in class, and engage in discussion around their creative and compositional process. Instructor feedback will be given in class and on graded assignments.. This course intends to provide a safe environment in which openness, experimentation, and constructive feedback between everyone is highly valued and encouraged.

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This class covers state-of-the-art techniques in scoring for visual media & live ensemble. Theoretical topics in the history and development of visual media scoring are discussed and analyzed. Additionally, students work hands-on to create, record, edit, mix and integrate sound into various types of projects. Activities include hands-on creation of written scores, use of Digital Audio Workstations, working with live instrumentalists, projection mapping and conducting.