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Today’s Musical Forecast: Warm and Sunny!
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
- Plato -
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Music (myū'zĭk) - noun; The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.
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Today’s plan
• Music Enjoyment, Discovery and Sharing
• Music Creation, Collaboration and Promotion
• Music’s Future? Does the industry have a strangle hold on music?
• Show and tell and some tricks of the trade
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Music Enjoyment, Discovery, and Sharing
• Do you enjoy music? If so, why?
• Do you find new music? If so, how?
• Do you share what you find? If so, why?
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Enjoyment, Discovery, and Sharing
and others
Playlists, peer-to-peer file sharing, Podcasting, PhoneCasting
http://muxtape.com/
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Wii Music
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Some free music creation applications
http://freemusicsoftware.org/
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Just a few music creation applications that are not free.
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Music Promotion and Distribution
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Does the recording industry have a strangle hold on music creation
with DRM (i.e., controlling distribution)?
Does music have a future?
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Yes! Music has a future
Music creators are taking back control!
Music is becoming more fragmented (i.e., many sub-genres = more interesting)
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Show and Tell
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Some Technical Ideas and Tricks of the Trade
• Be original!
• Have fun!
• Create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and use VNC to compose from anywhere. – Hamachi: https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp?lang=en
– Tight VNC: http://www.tightvnc.com/
• Contact me anytime for more ideas.
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Reactable – an instrument that combines the features of a
modular synthesizer with a multi-touch tangible user interface.
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Subatomic Pop – an electronic symphony
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Recruitment
St. Petersburg College is working on offering new music production courses:
– Acoustics and Psychoacoustics – Music Technology and Recording Techniques
( 4 courses with labs)
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Select Resources
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Other Resources• NAMM Music Technology 2008 Report
• Gerd Leonhard’s Blog
• Use wget to automatically download new music. (Thanks to “Upgrade Your Life” by Gina Trapani)
• Top 20 Online Music Stores: http://music-stores.nettop20.com/
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Comments/Questions?
Chad Mairn, M.L.I.S.St. Petersburg College e-mail: [email protected] office: (727) 341.7181
This presentation is available at: http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn