Jay Rinaldi, Assistant Professor |Photo by Phil Farnsworth|
"Music synthesis is the creation and manipulation of digital
sounds, be it working with digital audio on the computer or with
synthesizers, both physical hardware or software-based. It's the
creation of organic and non-organic instrument sounds, through
the use of computers and electronics. It's also about composing
music using these tools and instruments." "I look at the
synthesizer as its own instrument; I don't necessarily try to
make it sound like some other instrument. It's capable of
creating the sounds of all existing instruments, but it's also
capable of creating the sounds of instruments that don't exist.
I think that it opens up a sonic palette that no other
instrument can offer." "You can look at the synthesizer as a
keyboard instrument—a physical, playable instrument. It's an
instrument unto itself. But it allows players and composers an
outlet for sounds and layering that potentially you can't get
anywhere else. For me, studying music sy