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Technology for Teaching

Using synthesizers to compose music presents some unique opportunities. Composing is composing, however, and the processes involved are essentially the same whether you and your students compose for string quartets, wind ensembles, or synthesizers. No matter what sound-producing devices composers use, they must decide which musical ideas will be used and how they will be expressed and developed. All musical aspects (pitch, duration, timbre, dynamics, and pacing) must be considered during the process of composition. To write music using synthesizers, a composer needs certain basic equipment. Required and recommended equipment is outlined in figure 1.