This course takes an in-depth look at music synthesis, in a variety of forms, with practical methods and applications for creating and producing music for multimedia. Lessons and topics include; An Overview of Electronics in Scoring, Practical, musical and dramatic approaches and considerations, An overview of electronics in scoring from the 1940s to the present, The orchestral demo, the hybrid score, the electronic score and everything in between. Working With Sampled Instruments, Approaches for achieving the best sounding orchestral simulations, Making effective and appropriate demos of an ultimately orchestral score, Creating a final “orchestral” score using samples, Working With Sampled Instruments, The Basics of Synthesis, Creating music without significant use of samples or live recording, Special arrangement and mixing considerations, and much more.

Through a series of assignments, students will prepare the raw midi of a cue, orchestrate it, and create professional quality parts. Interspersed with assignment review, examples of ‘before-and-after orchestration’ will be shown and discussed, during which students will gain insight in the significance of a live recording, as well as the process of how to get there.

This course takes an in-depth look into the magical bond between music and image. The established film composer as well as newcomers will greatly benefit from exploring the important picture-music relationship and its basic language.