Press release from Bob Moog Foundation:
This summer the Bob Moog Foundation will be inspiring children through the intersection of science, music, and technology by providing Sound Explorer and Synthesizer Explorer Camps. The camps are open to children 7-13 years old, and will be held at Claxton Elementary School with a field trip to the Moogseum. Two weeks of each camp will be offered. Registration for the camps is $175 per week.
The Sound Explorer camp is open to children 7-10 years old, and will be offered the weeks of June 8-12, and July 13-17. Concepts of vibrations, waveforms, pitch, amplitude, frequency, and more will be explored using a wide variety of musical instruments, including one of the earliest electronic musical instruments, the theremin. Oscilloscopes and other tools to bring these concepts alive, so that campers can touch, see, and hear sound.
The camp will be taught by Brooks Butler, a local musician, exceptional music teacher from Claxton Elementary, and a member of the team that created the original Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool curriculum.
The Synthesizer Explorer camp is open to children 11-13 years old, and will be offered from June 15-19 and July 20-24. Campers will find out how synthesizers work, and how they enable the user to sculpt sound! In this one-of- a-kind camp, kids will explore the fundamentals of synthesis including explorations of the oscillator, filter, envelope, amplifier, and more.
Small synthesizer modules created by our friends at Little Bits® will be used to explore concepts, as well as exploring the principles through theremins, synthesizers and cymatics. This fun, experiential camp will be led by August Worley, former engineer at Moog Music, Inc.
More information and registration can be found at http://bit.ly/SoundSchoolCamps2020
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