If This was the First Term of the Year We would be Three Weeks Away from the Mid-Semester Break

A good way to begin the first of my 3 or 4 blogs for the week is to start with the presentations of what is commonly known as the Music Technology forum. First up was me. Last week I stated that I would be flying the flag first for the third year students. However, I feel that it did not fly as strong as it could have. My piece was ok for the presentation, but was generally too long. The small amount of preparation I put in prior to presenting made me realize a few things that I kind of ignored when I finished the work at the end of the last semester. I think to create a stellar and dynamic work in SuperCollider, a significant amount of creative time is required. I.e. more than 1 week in a busy, stressful period of assignments and exams. For my final electronic composition that I will produce at the end of the year, I want to create a stellar, dynamic composition that will inevitably be a good testament to my studies at EMU.

I am definitely a fan of Dragos’s DIY attitude in relation to his work using Reason 2.0. I did not get a lot out of his piece, but was thankful for the amount of contrast in the pieces selected for performance from all four contributors. I’m glad Vinny’s piece wasn’t excessively long like others of his have been (otherwise I would have missed my ride home), but the combination of piano and laptop and visuals was cool. I actually preferred to watch the visuals from his computer screen as they looked better than what I saw on the projector screen.

The SuperCollider class was fairly challenging. I found the granulation simple enough, but the teaching about Arrays was tricky, and there was a lot to get through. Thus, the class went 20 minutes over. Stay alert for my SuperCollider blog with code and hopefully a sound file. It should appear sometime on Wednesday. Until my computer is fixed, I have to do my code at Uni, so I have to be really focused when I do it.

More discussion was had in Sound Design, and there should be a blog entry discussing devices which allow good sound/music design in a particular movie.

That’s enough for this entry. I’m going to go watch a movie, eat some food, and then make some music. More entries coming soon for this week.

REFERENCES:
Haines, Christian. 2006. In the Sand Box. Tutorial presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, 10 August.

Klose, Ashley. 2006. Introduction (2). Tutorial presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, 10 August.

Whittington, Stephen. 2006. Forum Presentations. Presentations presented at the Electronic Music Unit, EMU Space, University of Adelaide, 10 August.

Albums that made this blog possible:
Let it Happen by MXPX.