Exploring Music and Sound Design
One-Week Workshop, Dates Offered:
Session 1A (6/22/26 – 6/26/26) @ St. Thomas*
Session 1B (6/29/26 – 7/2/26)
Session 2B (7/13/26 – 7/17/26)
Session 3B (7/27/26 – 7/31/26)
Tuition: Session 1B: $799
Other sessions: $899
Music provides the foundation for epic boss battles, makes movie scenes thrilling, and turns feelings into sound. Learning to create melodies and rhythms teaches pattern-thinking and creative expression – unlocking a universal language that helps young composers share their ideas in ways words alone can’t capture.
Explorers will transform voices, everyday objects, and code into original music. Students experiment with beats, layer sounds, and compose melodies with MakeCode, discovering how to turn noise into songs and random sounds into catchy tunes. Their ProjectFUN becomes a musical creation they composed and coded – ready to play, share, and jam out to.
Projects may include: Writing lyrics for their own song and composing a song for a preexisting game
*Please note that registration will require signing up through a portal on the St. Thomas School site. Open World tuition discounts and promotions will not be applicable to these registrations.
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- Use of rhythm as the core of songs
- Writing melodies with chords
- Using music editing techniques
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- Laptop computer
- Microsoft MakeCode browser-based coding program
Instructors are real DigiPen students.
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