Students demonstrate their Flexology design assignments, in which they create a set of signals and associated thematic material for conducted group improvisation.

This class begins with discussion of Miles Davis's "In a Silent Way," including its historical signficance and notes about the recording process. Then students demonstrate their modal melody design assignments, as inspired by the piece.

Guest artist Neil Leonard describes his motivation for working with electronics, and plays samples of his work. He covers collaboration, site-specific work, audio processing software (SPEAR), found sounds, and sound libraries.

Guest artists Tim Ray (piano) and Greg Hopkins (trumpet) talk about their MIT concert from the previous week. Students learn one of Greg's compositions and then experiment with motivic, scale-based, and conversational improvisations.

Guest artists Tim Ray (piano) and Eugene Friesen (cello), from the trio Tre Corda, demonstrate and discuss their approach: classical training, practicing and performing, the value of limits, curiosity, group roles, and improvising in a diatonic framework.

This first lab session is about sonic experimentation, improvising free from judgments of right vs. wrong. It begins with structured improvisation exercises incorporating sound and movement, followed by more exercises with graphic notation.

Discuss concert, especially more details about live processing in performance, using pedals and effects. Then students demonstrate their work on the sound library design assignment.

This concert features the group Natraj, which blends Indian classical music, West African traditional music, and jazz into their own style; and special guest Chitravina Ravikiran.

This concert features saxophonist Neil Leonard and trombonist Robin Eubanks, each performing solo with live electronics, and then in a final duo.

This concert features the group Tre Corda: Tim Ray (piano), Eugene Friesen (cello), and Greg Hopkins (trumpet).

This class begins with student demonstrations of Indian classical music frameworks for improvisation, as presented at the prior class. Then they collaborate on creating and trying out several new frameworks.

A workshop on fundamentals of Indian classical music (both Hindustani (northern India) and Carnatic (southern India) traditions) as frameworks for improvising. Topics: range, density, pulse (tala), pitch series (raga), and characteristic phrases (chalan).

This concert video includes a opening music improvisation, followed by a short excerpt of the film with improvised music accompaniment.