Computer Music: Design/Perform is open to those who have received the permission of the instructor. This course is a sequel to Introduction to MIDI and Computer Music, in which students employ MIDI sequencing, audio editing, and synthesizer programming to create short pieces of music. Building on these skills, we now branch out to explore other creative territory. We take everyday sounds — collected by us using portable recorders — and make explicit the musical qualities they possess. We construct our own virtual electronic instruments, learn to play them, and improvise together. We combine our own music with video, either as performance documentation or as an abstract visual counterpart to sound. While doing these things, we deepen our understanding of the theoretical concepts underlying this technology, become more expert in the operation of Reason and other DAWs, and learn some new software, mainly the Max graphical programming environment.