1. Create an LED circuit with a (class presentation). Record the voltage drop from each step and amps used in the circuit:
2. Create a three-LED circuit on Tinkercard and measure Voltage Drop and amps using their multimeters (class presentation).
3. 📚 Read Chapter 02 - Musical Electricity for Electrophobes (39-45) in Electronic music from scratch (Pearson). Write a comment on one of Pearson’s phrases that speaks to you. (2-3 sentences)
4. Follow the Piezomania (39) and Sound through your skull (42) experiments.
5. Create a groundbreaking musical instrument using Pearson’s advice in the conclusion of the chapter to customize your circuit to play sound in a new way.
6. 📚 Read Chapter 03 - The Hello World Oscillator (46-59) in Electronic music from scratch (Pearson). In your own words, why should you be careful with capacitors?
7. Save your file and commit all your work in this repo.
8. Update from origin/main to pull new changes from Owen’s branch.
9. 🎬 Watch Synthesizing with Moog - Lesson 2: Dynamics (15:33). Which tells us that every musical sound has three defining characteristics. What are they?
10. If you were to make a list of your top 10 songs, share a link (e.g. youtube) to one that demonstrates an envelope generator at work, as well as the timecode for that position. Here is an example:
The opening synth keyboard melody in Com Truise Galactic Melt uses a very short attack, making it punchy and alive. The base synth (
1:30) uses a slower attack, adding to its weight and helping to ground the tempo. —Owen Mundy