Hello everyone! Welcome to Mr. Cooperstein's Music Technology & Production site. This will be our landing page for everything you need in class. Please bookmark this website for easy access over the course of the semester on your student laptop and your desktop workstation in the Music Technology Lab.
Our class will be different this year in terms of the amount of time we will see each other in person and the resources that will be readily available to you. Because this is a technology class, plenty of ways exist to communicate the same information and ideas you would be getting in a traditional setting with more resources to wherever you are.
Music Technology & Production seeks to give students a basic understanding of concepts in music technology. The course covers musical topics such as song form, piano skills, rhythm, melody, chord progressions, and provides ample opportunity for students to compose. From a technological standpoint, the class starts at the basics of functioning in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and progresses through audio manipulation, quantization, microphone usage and technique, automation, and synthesizers. Students will put themselves in the roles of mixing engineers, film score composers, and recording artists throughout the course of the class in simulated experiences in the music technology field.