Free MIT Course on Composing with Computers (Mac)

It's not widely known, but several pretty heavy weight Universities actually give away a lot of full courses online for free once they've been running for a while. Naturally some of these are a few years old, but I've seen some dated up to 2007.

I'm currently going through many of these lists and finding courses which I think might interest some of you, as musicians.

The first of these that I thought I would post about here is the Undergraduate level course, Composing with Computers, offered by MIT. It's dated Spring 2003, so I would imagine will still be of real value to those of you wanting to study the use of Mac-based studio environments running Pro Tools, MAX/MSP, Peak, and Digital Performer - as well as some outboard hardware.

Composing with Computers course description:

In this course we will use computers and computer-aided technology as compositional tools, that is, as a means to music-making and an avenue to approach musical and acoustic concepts. Each unit of study will consist of a series of short composition projects using specific types of hardware and software in clearly delineated ways. This will involve (in broad order) live recording and digital editing, digital processing, analog sound synthesis (real and virtual), MIDI sequencing, and building interactive environments.

To read about and/or download the course click below:
Composing with Computers - Course at MIT