Students integrate the use of a digital audio workstation (DAW) to understand musical theory including timbre (layering), composition (creative thinking), and voicing. Students learn various DAWs in order to use a variety of technologies within a design process by creating new, useful, or imaginative musical creations.

In this lesson, students will compose and notate “soundscapes” using found instruments. In preparing to notate their compositions, students will consider the limitations and benefits of extant notation systems.