Lots of people *play* music on their computers these days. Next Sunday 5/17 we'll explore how to *make* music using two free programs:


* With Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) you can record sounds and manipulate your recordings.

* With Pure Data (http://puredata.info/), you can create sounds mathematically from the basic components of sound such as sine waves and noise. Pure Data is the modern digital equivalent of the Moog synthesizer invented in Trumansburg in the 1960s and used by rock musicians of that era. Groovy.

If you can, bring a portable instrument and we'll all collaborate on a wildly ambitious group composition.

Note that this will be our last Family Math Club meeting for the season; we'll resume on approximately 10/25/2009. Let me know if you can enjoy marching in the Ithaca Festival Parade with Family Math at 6:30pm on Thursday May 28th.

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The Family Math Club meets Sundays from 2pm to 3:30pm on the third floor of Williams Hall on the Ithaca College Campus. Kids aged 8 to 13 have reported enjoying the club. To get to the club travel to South Hill on 96B. Turn into the Ithaca College main entrance. Go three fourths around the circle. Take the first right (a sign here says "admissions"). Williams Hall is the second building on your left. Enter either the front or the back and take either the stairs or the elevator to the third floor.