MEC·TECHMUSIC. ENGINEERING. CODING.
The program
01 / START WITH SOUNDA DIFFERENT KIND OF MUSIC EDUCATION

SOUNDIS BUILT.

A MEC educator and students working together at a laptop
IDEAS BECOME INSTRUMENTS.

Music is your starting point.
What you make of it is up to you.

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A hands-on world of code, sound
and things that don’t exist. Yet.

02 / MUSIC BECOMES DATAONE SOUND. ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES.

LISTEN
CLOSER.

SIGNAL / 001
const sound = capture();const signal = sample(sound);makeSomething(signal);
SOUNDSIGNALCODE

A vibration becomes a value.
A value becomes something you can change.

03 / CODE BECOMES INSTRUMENTBUILD THE THING YOU WANT TO HEAR

NOT JUST
A LISTENER.

01 / PROGRAMMING
onGesture(input) {
  pitch = map(input);
  synth.frequency = pitch;
  play(synth);
}
A SIGNAL-FLOW SKETCH
GESTURESENSORCODESOUND
Hands-on programming and instrument-making at MEC
YOUR IDEA, MADE PLAYABLE.
  1. PROGRAM
  2. CONNECT
  3. SHAPE
  4. PLAY
TRY A NOTE
SOUND ON TAP ONLY
MEC students learning together in a workshop
An educator helping students develop an idea on a laptop
04 / BUILD. TRY. REPEAT.THIS IS A HANDS-ON THING

LESSWATCHING.MORE MAKING.

THE WORKSHOP / MEC.TECH

Write it. Wire it. Hear it.
Then try something nobody expected.

05 / RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTATIONKEEP THE QUESTION OPEN

WHAT
IF?

Make room for the unknown.
Explore music through engineering,
creative research and new ways to interact.

AN IDEA
IN MOTION

See sound as information. Explore how signals can be captured, understood and transformed.

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MEC students performing live electronic music with projected code
06 / TAKE THE STAGEMADE BY YOU. HEARD BY EVERYONE.

THIS IS
YOUR SOUND.

FROM A FIRST LINE OF CODE
TO A LIVE PERFORMANCE.

Don’t just learn how music works.
Find out what you can make it do.

07 / FIND YOUR PEOPLE

THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
…made creativity
feel limitless.

Adriel S.MEC.TECH student

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Members of the MEC learning community gathered together
THE MEC COMMUNITY — NOT AN INDIVIDUAL PORTRAIT
…expand our
creativity in both
music and coding.

Edouard F.MEC.TECH student

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Students and educators celebrating a MEC program together
LEARNING, TOGETHER — THE MEC COMMUNITY
READ THEIR STORIES AT MEC.TECH
08 / YOUR NEXT MOVECURIOSITY IS A GOOD PLACE TO START

CREATE.CODE.CONNECT.

Your next instrument
could start with an idea.

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