JUNE 2010

JUNE 2010

• Jam Session #2 in May rocked!• Next meetup: Hot Spot bar, July 7• Introductions!• Cool toy: Mixwidget.org

• Jerry – New electronic orchestra + Q&A

• J.B.Vries – “Creepin’ In ft. Goldie”• Keller• McKay – iPad/Bebot/Sounddrop thing• Eric Odland – “What You Do To Me”• Ed

MIXWIDGET.ORG

• Mixtape player

• Customizable

MIXWIDGET.ORG

• Mixtape player

• Customizable

MIXWIDGET.ORG

• Mixtape player

• Customizable

• See Rekz’ usage at:http://rekzkarz.blogspot.com

MIXWIDGET.ORG

• Mixtape player

• Customizable

• See Rekz’ usage at:http://rekzkarz.blogspot.com

JERRY GERBER

• Composed for film, games, TV, concerts, dance

• Electronic symphonies

• SONAR DAW, uses VSTs like Massive and Gigastudio for symphonic sampleshttp://www.jerrygerber.com

JERRY GERBER

Source: From Walter Piston's book on Orchestration

JERRY GERBER

Orchestral Unison

• Single instrument to entire orchestral tutti

• Octave duplications considered unison

Melody and Accompaniment

• Melody sometimes has more orchestral weight

• Accompaniment can consist of several instruments

Source: From Walter Piston's book on Orchestration

JERRY GERBER

Melody and Accompaniment (cont’d)

• Some possible accompaniment textures:– Ostinatos and repeating figures

– Chords

– Pedal points

– Specific melodic notes extracted (heterophony)

– Arpeggiated chord outlines

Source: From Walter Piston's book on Orchestration

JERRY GERBERSecondary Melody• This is two-part counterpoint with

accompaniment

Choral Texture• Mid-way between chords and counterpoint• Utilizes non-harmonic tones

Polyphonic Texture• Contrapuntal texture with no non-

polyphonic accompanimentsSource: From Walter Piston's book on

Orchestration

JERRY GERBERChords

• The entire orchestra, or parts of it, moving in chords

Complex Texture

• Any combination of previously mentioned textures

Source: From Walter Piston's book on Orchestration

JERRY GERBER

J.B.VRIES

“My songwriting process is very similar to any other instrument but with a twist of about 65% songwriting 20% coding process and 15 experimentation process.”

J.B.VRIES

Creepin’ In ft. Goldie

“… I was actually working with a Phillip Glass classical music piece in my project trying to learn from his note progressions and the main melody from Creepin' In was the result.”http://www.facebook.com/JBVfans

KELLER

http://www.kellermedlin.com

MCKAY

McKay’s demo

http://www.mckaygarner.com

ERIC ODLAND

• DAW = Reaper• Plugins: Automat, TAL instruments,

CheeseMachine, VOPM, Orca• Vocal fx = Csound• Other stuff = MIDI keyboard, bass

guitar

ED

• Piano w/ effects, WAV edited by hand

NEXT MEETUP

• Next meetup: July 7 at Hot Spot Bar1414 Market St. (at Fell St.)

• Notes on the SF-EMM.org website

• Next jam session = ???

http://www.SF-EMM.org

~ Thank you! ~