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I build instruments and
systems that are in some way

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unpredictable.

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The system is called the
ndial or the anything dial,

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and it's a sampling
sequencer that randomly

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selects from audio files.

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I like building
systems that force

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you to listen in new ways.

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Sometimes they're acoustic,
sometimes they're electronic,

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sometimes they'll
fill an entire room,

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but they always have this
element of unpredictability

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and push back against
what you might

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expect in traditional
musical structures.

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This course is MICE, or the
Mobile Interactive Computing

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Ensemble.

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It was started by
Matthew Burtner

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to think of ways of bringing
electronic music to larger

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audiences.

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I plan on double majoring in
computer science and music.

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The way this class
works, it's kind of

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like the melting of the
two majors perfectly.

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So it's really cool to see
how I can use both things

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and like, make my
own little world.

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We build our own instruments.

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We build acoustic and
contact mic instruments,

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and we learn to
process audio using

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Maximus P. These speakers
allow the ensemble to be

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portable or mobile.

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The primary goal
in my courses is

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to learn techniques of
exploring the world that

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are less determined.

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More focused on
process, and exploring

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the world with our hands
and our eyes and our ears.

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A pre-built synthesizers are
going to sound wonderful,

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and we're building synthesizers
that sound kind of rough,

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you know.

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[HIGH PITCH SOUND]

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They're gritty and nasty and
they don't always sound great,

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but they do produce some
wonderfully musical results.

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For the most part he's
like, just have free rein.

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Go do whatever comes to mind.

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These are simple circuits, but
there's endless possibilities

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in what to do with them.

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That's exciting, and it kind of
creates this type of immersion

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that I'm not sure you get by
clicking around and finding

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presets on a
software synthesizer.

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You get a lot of knowledge
out of your professor,

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but also you get that one
on one experience with him.

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He knows everyone
in the class, so he

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knows what's
happening in your life

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and he knows what's happening
with your instrument.

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I'm hoping to prepare
students by giving them

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a more experimental
and exploratory toolset

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to help them learn new ways.

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