Students develop their listening skills and complete exercises that train them in creating effective, multi-layered compositions. Assignments are balanced between technical skills and musical issues. As the week progresses and students gain technical skills, they have more and more unstructured time to work on their own compositions. The final hour on Friday is an open house where families are welcome to hear the music of all the campers. In Week 2 a smaller group of students work in a more sophisticated lab, where digital audio, sampling technology, and multiple synthesizers are available to each student.
Creativity continues to be a strong focus as new technology is introduced.
Students review each other's work and discuss musical and technical issues. A larger portion of the schedule is open lab time, where multiple instructors move among the workstations to assist each student's individual questions. The final hour on Friday is a concert where families are welcome to hear the compositions of the campers.