Tough week, tough semester, tough year. Its difficult for me to put my feelings into words, and I think that this tends to cause me more suffering so I am really gonna try and vocalize them this time. The final project for this class brought out a lot of feelings for me, both positive and negative; it was exciting to work with more digital media, it was painful having to reassess my past and my experiences with art and music, it was difficult...
This semester has been really tough, I've said this every semester since my freshman year (perhaps because covid hit that year) but this semester has been my toughest semester yet. I would not be surprised if I failed half my classes, which sucks, But I feel as though I learned a lot about myself over the last 14 or so weeks, and I've learned a lot about what I want to do with all the weeks I've got left. So to commemorate this I wanted all of...
For my final project I would like to do a combination visual and audio assignment. The premise of the project is basically to create portraits and accompanying music in order to tell a story without words. I plan to make a series of digital paintings and musical compositions and pairing them to create different stories, which I may explain further if I feel context is need, however part of the fun of a story is the different ways in which it is...
Well I finally got around to customizing my website. Only took me 3/4 of the semester. I think the thing that was most difficult for me when I was trying to decide what my site would look like was the idea that it was still for school. Although all of the classes I am using this blog for have said that I should make this website my own, and that I should use it to suite my own needs, I haven't really been doing anything for my self this...
We are now in week 10 of the semester, or maybe week 11, I'm not too sure anymore, it could be week 9. However long it has been, this has been the hardest semester of my college career. I probably said the same thing last semester, and it isn't because the classes are become more difficult or because the work load has increased. It has become clear to me that the reason this has been such a difficult semester for me is because the pandemic has...
This week, in preparation for our music based radio show, I prepared a mixtape which we will go further in depth on in the show itself. This playlist contains a number of songs that I listen to while taking part in one of the most important activities in my life: cooking. Cooking is something I do almost every day and it is very important to who I am as a person. Music is also a very important part of who I am, so it makes sense that the two...
I would say this week has been the toughest week thus far. I imagine that if this trend continues I wont be able to get through the semester, let alone the school year. If I had to guess I would say I'm behind in most of my classes, but more importantly my mental and physical health is suffering so I'm going to make an executive decision and reset this week. I may fall behind, but if I can use this weekend to get myself back on track in all my...
This is another assignment that I thought would be fun for future generations of this class to participate in. There is a program available on the internet called chrome labs, which has a plethora of music based applications including beat makers and melody makers etc. For this assignment you will need to use the maximum number of bars available, (I forget whether the maximum number is 16, 18 or 20 but I believe the assignment says 20) to...
I decided to make an audio assignment because I noticed there was a considerable lack of composition based audio assignments in the assignment bank. I certainly Plan on adding more audio assignments, and I'll try to add tutorials for all of them. For this Audio Assignment you'll use any composition software (muse score, finale, etc.) and you'll make an orchestrated piece of music using exactly 3 instruments. You can have multiple parts for 1...
The Audio Assignment Reverse It Asks that you take a soundtrack form a musical and rearrange the tracks in order to create a whole new story. Many musicals begin and end in similar places musically, with the finale being a reprisal of some of the main beginning numbers of the Musical, and the case is the same for the musical I chose. The musical I chose is Parade, which tells the true story of a young Jewish man named Leo Frank who moves to...
