The Modern Audio Producer and Musician

4.0 credits

Lectures in this course will involve discussions about ethical use of AI tools in audio production, managing and uploading audio for streaming, designing and ordering physical audio media, writing contracts, royalties, and music promotion. One major project will be required and will last the entire semester. Students will act as the songwriter and compose a pop song which will evolve over the course of the semester with feedback from the professor acting as producer. The song will be tracked by professional studio musicians on drums, guitar, bass, and piano during a session around the midterm of the semester. The songwriters will then mix it themselves, with input from the professor and their classmates. Students are expected to already be well versed in microphones, signal processing theory, and Pro Tools/Logic/Reaper.