You will learn ideas and techniques around creating music with digital tools- Ableton Live + Max For Live. This software allows you to customize your own sound and workflow, enabling live "electronic" music that is expressive and of the present moment.

When you leave this class you will-
1. Know how Ableton Live can be used for voice instrument processing.
2. Understand how to create and express something with a tool that has unlimited capabilities.
3. Gain ideas for customized signal processing.
4. Meet new people that are interested in this stuff too.
5. Get to enjoy a show following the workshop for free, which will have some of the best SF musicians, street food vendors and artists sharing their talents. The ticket to the class will also get you into a - whole night of music, food, and art produced by http://www.overlap.org

Christopher Willits is "a prominent experimental musician from the San Francisco Bay area" and "a pioneer and a teacher, exploring new methodologies for signal processing.". He has been instrumental in redefining the guitar in the digital age. His music is electroacoustic in nature, in that both analogue and digital worlds are meshed into one. Pitchfork states that Willits "paints with his guitar". Willits is "a purveyor of both beauty and experimentation, a video director and a musician, a composer and performer, an artist and organizer, bringing together different scenes (through the platform Overlap.org)." He has created a brand of "incredibly intelligent compositions that manages to be hard to pinpoint into a genre". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Willits Christopher Willits has instructed sound, art, music and multimedia classes for over ten years. He has developed dozens of courses and developed sound and multimedia departments at Goucher College, The SF Art Institute, Berkeley City College, The Art Institute SF, and the Bay Area Video Coalition. http://christopherwillits.com/about