Loudon Stearns – Composing and Producing Electronic Music 1
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Change is the nature of electronic music. To keep pace, the composer must adapt. Composing and Producing Electronic Music is a completely current approach to teaching students the necessary tools and techniques to create contemporary electronic music in a variety of styles, including drum and bass, trance, dub, and house.
Composing and Producing Electronic Music 1
Change is the nature of electronic music. To keep pace, the composer must adapt. Composing and Producing Electronic Music is a completely current approach to teaching students the necessary tools and techniques to create contemporary electronic music in a variety of styles, including drum and bass, trance, dub, and house. You will learn the history of electronic music with listening examples that highlight the important people, technology, and techniques associated with the style. The lessons will feature a series of videos describing musical, DAW, and synthesis techniques appropriate to the style. For each style, there will also be a research and analysis component, in which students learn to listen critically and adapt to changes in technology and public musical taste. Students are then responsible for creating a complete piece of music for that style. Work can be done in any major DAW that supports AU, RTAS, or VST instruments, including Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Live, or Reason.
This music composition course teaches topics like rhythm and harmony within the framework of a DAW, starting in the first week with an introduction to common scales and rhythms. As the course progresses, the musical examples become more complex as a harmonic language appropriate to the styles is developed. The course takes a similar approach with synthesis, covering the basic concepts of syntheses using a custom-built synthesizer. Quickly, the course moves into Xfer Records Serum synthesizer in order to develop patches appropriate to each style. With a thorough understanding of these patches, you can then apply the same concepts to another synth.
By analyzing and composing in a variety of electronic music styles, you will gain a deep understanding of many aspects of contemporary electronic music, including beats, harmony, bass lines, groove, melodies, synthesis, audio/MIDI editing, effects processing, sound design, form, performance, and mixing.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Compose and produce in various styles of electronic music, including jungle/drum&bass, trance, glitch, dub, electro, minimal, downtempo, house, and techno
- Analyze electronic music to keep up on current trends
- Synthesize the major components of electronic music
- Understand the main aspects of groove
- Build complex and layered drum grooves
- Utilize complex signal flow for creative purposes
- Layer acoustic and electronic elements
- Use automation effectively
- Compose with harmony appropriate to electronic music
- Utilize reverb and delay in multiple contexts
- Create exciting builds and breaks
- Compose and synthesize powerful hooks
- Utilize compressors, gates, and filters with and without sidechain inputs
- Use your sequencer to create complex edits
- Synthesize complex and evolving basses, pads, and leads
- Create a variety of interesting synth gestures
- Use advanced quantization functions to add human feel
- Compose and sequence keyboard parts
- Use delays to create evolving soundscapes
Syllabus
Lesson 1 Introduction to Electronic Music
Lesson 2 Drum and Bass I: Groove Creation
Lesson 3 Drum and Bass II: Groove Manipulation
Lesson 4 Drum and Bass III : Bassline
Lesson 5 Dub: Automation
Lesson 6 Trance I: Analysis
Lesson 7 Fill the Time
Lesson 8 Trance III: Lead
Lesson 9 House I: Diatonic Progressions
Lesson 10 House II: Melody
Lesson 11 House III: House Groove
Lesson 12 Electro/French House: Making it LoudRequirements
Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements
Students should be competent in their chosen Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), including the ability to import samples, edit audio, use virtual instruments, add effects, automate, record MIDI, and export a final mix to MP3.
Required Textbook(s)
- None required
Software Requirements
- A DAW (Logic, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, Reason, etc)
- Xfer Records Serum OR Native Instruments Massive (having both is recommended, but only one is required).
Hardware Requirements
- MIDI keyboard
General Course Requirements
Below are the minimum requirements to access the course environment and participate in live chats. Please make sure to also check the Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements section above, and ensure your computer meets or exceeds the minimum system requirements for all software needed for your course.
Mac Users
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite or higher
PC Users
- Windows 7 or higher
All Users
- Latest version of Google Chrome
- Zoom meeting software (available in the course when joining your first chat)
- Webcam
- Speakers or headphones
- External or internal Microphone
- Broadband Internet connection
Instructors
Author
Loudon Stearns is an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, a course author and instructor at Berklee Online, and an active media-artist. Within the Contemporary Writing and Production department at Berklee College of Music, he prepares students to work as independent composers and producers in a technology-laden music industry. Online, he focuses on the latest electronic music styles and music-technology innovations, showing students how to analyze contemporary styles and use the latest music technology in their own works. An innovator in both education and art, Loudon authored a Massive Open Online Class, “Introduction to Music Production,” that has provided high-quality free education to hundreds of thousands of students, received an award from the University Professional and Continuing Education Association for “Excellence in Teaching” and received the “Excellence in Media Art” award from the Emerson College Visual and Media Art department.
Holding a Bachelor of Music in Contemporary Writing and Production and Bass Performance from Berklee College of Music, and a Master of Fine Arts in Media Art from Emerson College, Loudon pulls from a broad range of skills in the creation of his own multi-media performances that include live music, projection-mapping, dance, visual art and interactivity. Of particular interest is using the entire world as a performance space by using internet streaming to coordinate numerous performers and audiences on vastly different parts of the globe. The technical and aesthetic challenges of this type of performance are new and exciting and require the sort of broad skill-set that Loudon has developed through his extensive institutional and self education in music, sound, performance, motion graphics, photography, programming, and construction.
Instructor
An authoritative voice in music, tech, and education, Erin Barra is a course author and instructor at Berklee Online, the Director of Popular Music at Arizona State University, and Executive Director of Beats By Girlz. She has a wide breadth of experience developing and teaching curriculums at the open source, K-12, and collegiate levels, several of which are the most popular and highest rated courses on their respective platforms.
As a community organizer, she has the ability to mobilize and build from the ground level up, creating and funding several organizations and efforts at the intersection of art, technology, education, and equity. She currently sits on the board of Women in Music, and has spearheaded research regarding women in the music industry in partnership with Berklee’s Institute of Creative Entrepreneurship, which won the Innovation award at SIM São Paulo.
Specializing in composition, performance, and creative music technology application, Erin has worked with and represented companies such as Ableton, ROLI, MusicTech, Moog, and iZotope. She has presented at Loop, NAMM, SXSW, Moogfest, Gearfest, KIEM, Future of Music Coalition, Yale’s EXPOL, and Re-Mixed Media Festival.
Erin has worked with an array of artists, from Grammy winners like John Oates, George Massenburg, Kathy Mattea, and Elliot Scheiner, to those at the front lines of the independent movement like Res, Miles Robertson, and Ari Raskin. She holds a degree in Songwriting from Berklee College of Music and has 20+ years of keyboard/piano experience.
Instructor
Dennis DeSantis is a composer, sound designer, percussionist, and author. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music. His electronic music appears on labels such as Ghostly, Global Underground, Cocoon and Kanzleramt, and he has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. DeSantis is the Head of Documentation for Ableton, and previously worked as a sound designer for Native Instruments.
Instructor
Kareem Tony Clarke is a DJ, music producer, and label owner. Throughout his career, he has performed at major clubs in New York City, toured US colleges, performed at TEDxBerkleeValencia, played at SXSW 2017, and held DJ residencies in Valencia, Spain. In 2016 he founded the deep house and techno label Digital Den Records with fellow Berklee alum Ian Cahill.
Kareem holds a BA in Engineering Studies from Lafayette College, as well as an MA in Global Entertainment and Music Business and an MM in Music Technology Innovation from Berklee College of Music.
Instructor
Laura Escudé (fka ALLUXE) is a one-woman Future Classical orchestra blending music, tech and consciousness. Synthesizing her skills as a classically trained violinist and technical prowess as an avant-garde electronic producer, Escudé infuses neo-classical & sleek futuristic style with raw emotion elicited with her musical machines. She’s the creator of The Transmute™ Accelerator, as well as Founder of Electronic Creatives and an Ableton Certified Trainer since 2008. Based in Los Angeles, Laura Escudé is an artist, innovator, entrepreneur and live show designer with a deep understanding of complex technology, a profound passion for music and art and a unique talent for fusing the two. Career highlights include designing shows for Kanye West and Jay Z, opening for Miguel on his 2015 Wildheart tour, building a thriving international business populated by top-tier professionals and developing premier educational programs accessed around the globe.
What’s Next?
When taken for credit, Composing and Producing Electronic Music 1 can be applied towards these associated programs:
Associated Certificate Programs
Associated Degree Majors
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