Continuing Education

132 West 21st Street

In this introductory course students will explore the intersection of electronics and sound by building basic synthesizers, effect units and radios from scratch. Circuits, schematics, electronic components, filters and audio effects will be explored. The focus will be constructing various audio devices using breadboards and then integrating them. Electronics will be manipulated to create desirable sounds, and we will utilize happy accidents and unexpected results. While there are clear goals about what will be covered and created in this course, experimentation will be encouraged. By the end of the course students will have made several audio units. Sessions are held in the Visible Futures Lab, a state-of-the-art rapid prototyping facility.
NOTE: The materials fee covers materials, including breadboards, resistors, capacitors and integrated circuits. Students will also be provided with a pair of headphones to independently test their circuits. This course is held on campus at SVA.