Class Details

Open to all PACO students

An introduction to sound installations and homemade musical instruments!

Sound is everywhere and music can be found in so many everyday moments! This course will explore the connection between sound and space, by creating sonic pictures of the spaces we inhabit, both indoors and outdoors. We will begin by exploring the sounds that make up our everyday environment through active listening and field recordings. We will use contact mic’s, and amplifiers to design homemade instruments using common household items. The options are truly limitless, so let your creativity run free!

Through lectures and discussions, instrument design, and simple sound editing and composition strategies, we will collaborate to create a digital presentation of our work during this semester. This course will be a hands-on, fun, and a great place to explore making fun music with weird sounds. Sound installations are about music that lives in a certain space, and since this course will be digital, we will have tools set up for a digital presentation, but your presentations need not be limited to a digital format. This course will really be shaped by your interests and what you’d like to explore! I’m really looking forward to working with all of you.

Sundays @ noon

Class Meetings:

3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9, 5/16

Class ZOOM Link

Instructor Email:

[email protected]

Instructor Bio:

Maita Eyzaguirre is a multimedia composer, pianist, and educator, raised in Italy, to Chilean and Trinidadian-American parents. She moved to the Bay Area after graduating from Brown University, where she studied composition with Eric Nathan and Wang Lu and sound installations/sound design with Butch Rovan. Her passion for composition has led her to explore different forms of electronic music, including integrated circuits and hand-built instruments, as well as contemporary concert music. At Brown, she engaged deeply in a refugee tutoring program where she developed a passion for culturally-competent education that focuses on building self-confidence and encouraging self-efficacy in youth. Maita joined PACO’s administrative staff in January as our new Office Assistant.