October 10 2013
Connect Dirk with Paul Lamere at EchoNest
Post feedback to Pad on Badges -
Introduce Vanessa to Jeremy@rapgenius.com
Meeting next week at 10:30.
October 17
Echnonest contact for Dirk
Copy for Bagel
You're going to get to play with Peter Gabriel's music
learn to do that through Peter
1-2 songs
multitracks
process of putting them together
you're going to make excellent stuff because you're working with excellent raw materials
exclusive sexy content that's still open
exclusive access to peter gabriels tracks multitracks samples
world-class material
learn with peter gabriel
follow up chat with peter gabriel--folks who finish the course
Press stuff:
Reach out to Life Hacker and MAKE
http://lifehacker.com/5981970/mits-free-creative-learning-class-teaches-you-how-to-learn-almost-anything
http://makezine.com/2013/02/01/how-to-learn-almost-anything-open-mit-online-class/
techcrunch--who is the contact
October 7 2013
Soundboard image for your consideration: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sx1f0i76q8s5an/Dolan%20board%20with%20hands.JPG
poster:
feature the badges
insight into what people will be learning
"Play With Your Music.org
4 Badges sum up the modules
Earning of the Badges
learn how to play with your music using the newest tools on the web
master class: show both mic and speaker for feedback / artist onstage with an audience / speaker--cable of the mic as the actual loop
audio levels: show with height where you are in the sequence
mix master: put the soundwave image in this one instead of remix master (audio level)
remix: working with midi--piano style notation or the symbol from the site (arrows intersection)
October 3 2013
Agenda:
- Class gallery: http://mooc-signup-test.herokuapp.com/gallery/1/
- Signup/email sequence
- Bagel: need to know by October 15 (2-3 days will be fine)
- Badges:
- Golden Ears
- Basic: differentiating between 44.1 and 128Kmp3
- Advanced: why does one sound better than another? what is masked vs. what is heard?
- Mix Master
- Basic: recreate example mix
- Advanced: create and post your own mix
- Remix Master
- Basic: alter balance, panning, effects
- Advanced: change musical content and/or form
- Masterclass
- Rockstar pedagogue--you wilingly post your expertise to the community
- Basic: write critiques/comments on three other mixes
- Advanced: write critiques/comments on ten other mixes
VMG: Badge designer, write first email with class photo
Tags - Research/Information Ontology
- Week, Email #, Topic/Module categorical descriptors, Sequence_1,
- Use underscores
- Bit.ly - clickthroughs for Pages of links and resources categorized by use - e.g., critical listening, YouTube playlists
YouTube channel - youtube.com/playwithyourmusic
Sept 26 2013
- Banner photo---TBD, possibly by tomorrow morning
- Copy workshop
- Browser requirements
- Chrome - link to chrome -
- "We recommend you experience Play With Your Music in Chrome"
- Soundation:
- Flash Player 10, but latest version (11) is recommended
- Browser: Explorer 7, Firefox 3, Safari 4, Google Chrome 7 or better
- CPU: 2GHz
- Memory: 1 GB
- Mac user? Soundation requires an Intel based Mac (the sequencer will not run on PowerPC Macs)
- The AudioLocker Application requires Adobe® AIR® 2.0 or better
- URL ended up being www.playwithyourmusic.org
- Echonest: does anyone have connections with them? If not, Philipp said he may know someone -- Alex and Ethan know Paul Lamere - Director of Developer Platform
- Alex to send email of introduction and description to Paul Lamere at EchoNest re: grouping Google Apps.
- Blog vs bootstrap page
- PR: After we hear from PG, send URL to SoundCloud and EchoNest
- Badges
- Guru instead of Connoisseur?
- Encourage people to post links and other supportive materials under module-specific hashtags on Google+. Google+ then displays the "Best of" hashtag posts. We can
VMG: write some copy about browser reqs
Sept 19 2013
Agenda
- MOOC title:
- URL: playwithyourmusic.org
- Wordpress:
- Alex/Ethan to setup on wordpress.com
- Banner image:
- Signup questions:
- name
- comfort level with soundcloud
- comfort listening to music and identifying structure
- Language and Copy
- G+ Community
- playwithyourmusic@gmail.com
- Dates / Timeline?
- Splash page up by 25 Sept
- Grouping
- based on interest rather that timezone using Echo Nest taste profile similarity
- 30/40 people per group
Draft curriculum:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tZEcraFQ4YXmXsrqzVxwoQnEkUhl-Cg3F-N2iw9IfTc/edit?usp=sharing
Examples of online music tools:
http://static.echonest.com/girltalkinabox/
http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html
http://soundation.com/
Echonest powered grouping hack - Alex
Sept 12 2013
Splash Page copy:
Title Ideas---->HELP HERE
- Make Some Noise: Musical Expression for the Web +1+1
- Yo Maestro: A 101 on Musical Expression, built for the web+1
- The Web Quartet
- Sound of the Web
- Play with Music, Make your own Music, Tinker with Music, Make Music, Mixmaster
- Busk a move?
- UK: Top of the Pops
- Soultrane
- Remote Orchestra
- Massive Music
- Orchestral Maneuvers on the Web
- Orchestrate
- The (toe) Jam
- The music bunch
- Moshpit
- Lost in music
- The best of "the jams"
- Hitparade
- Lets harp together
- Ain't Too Proud To Jam
- It's only "music mooc" but I like it
- Let's spend the jam together
Ideas for photos for the splash page:
Play With Your Music
A course for anyone who wants to make music online. 100% online. Totally Free.
## H2s
Play with the Music You Love.
- Free and Online
- Fiddle with loops, time, tempo and vocals on your favorite tracks.
- Get even closer to the songs you've had on repeat since you were 15.
Master the in's and out's of audio and MIDI tracks.
Songwriting, Production, Engineering, Recording Analysis, Critical Listening
- (Re)Mix in the Browser.
- Work with Soundation.com's web-based production environment.
- Post your tracks and your creative process to SoundCloud.
- Collaborate on your mixes with Google Hangout
- Work with your small group to give each other feedback and build an audience.
Dates for Signup and course starting
Wordpress Page Copy
About.
- Partnership /Audience - P2PU and NYU Music
- Learning goals / what you will learn
- How It Works / Small group. 30-40 folks.
- The Tools You'll Need. / SoundCloud / http://datarock.musicdelta.com/
- Support if I'm Lost / Things Go Wrong.
Syllabus
http://soundation.com/
http://girltalkinabox.com
http://datarock.musicdelta.com/
http://datarock.musicdelta.com/
Group Work
We'll match you up with a band of likeminded folks. You'll get extra support, help others when they get stuck, and make smart friends.
Match me up with other folks.I'm going to do this course on my own. Thanks though!
Learning Style
When learning something new, what's your first instinct?
I try it out.I think it through.I discuss it with someone else.
Your Experience
I've never written a program before.I've written "Hello World" or a simple app.I've built a sophisticated app. It was pretty sweet.
Timezone
Agenda
- Curriculum walkthrough
- Badges walkthrough
- Grouping script
- Python
- Ask people who their favorite artists are--use the metadata from Echo Nest
- 30 participants/round--ask people who are in the groups
- Timeline
- Start Nov 1 101
- Two tracks start out at beginning of spring semester
- 6 week intro
- Tools
- Soundation is a free tool
- Splash page
- "Play with the music you love"
- Listening, sound effects, working with actual recordings
- Create your own pieces and share them
- Q&A with Peter Gabriel, Ben Folds
- Share your creative process, document your creative process
101:
Track 1: Critical listening and recording anaylsis
Track 2: Music Production
Sharing celebration
Next steps
- Technical licenses
- VMG: reach out to Peter Gabriel
- 5-15 video of him talking about creative work making music in the studio, his role as a producer, his philosophy
- A set of musical loops or materials that we could embed in SoundCloud that the groups in the course could manipulate
- Best case: he'd submit a mix from those loops / the creation that comes out of those loops
- Live video where he gives feedback to the top 3 or 5 remixes
- Step out schedule--
- VMG: splash page copy and signup questions
- Alex and Ethan: revamp/remap module 1, feedback for next week will inform the rest of the course
Survey
- Tool familiarity
- Comfort level
Kickoff Meeting
Hangout URL: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/NpmZaHPJqQSeasRBaTtoiw?pqs=1&hl=en&authuser=1
Attendees:
- Vanessa, your friendly Learning Lead (Get Off the Internet--Le Tigre)
- Alex (Muffin Man-Frank Zappa)
- Ethan (It's About That Time--Miles Davis)
- Dirk (Here Comes Your Man--Pixes)
Agenda
Introductions
Content Piece
- Learning Goals
- Activities and Tools / Interactions
- Assessment
- Sign up/splash page
- Community mgmt /outreach
Tech Piece
- Splash page
- Mailgun
- Grouping
- Analytics
Vision for Music MOOC
Building custom musical instruments
Group jam with Chrome--create beats and melodies, go on jam with Chrome
Makey makey--build their custom interface
Soundation.com web-based digital audio system--possibly a version that runs with google hangout, create projects and curate them
Figuring out engagement around music /
Designing learning environments that help people get closer to play with the music they love--working with remix API with Echonest
Remixing with Peter Gabriel tracks
Next Steps:
- Weekly meeting
- Audience
- Decide tools
- Timeline
Web links to ideas/tools...
http://soundation.com/
Alex: Add NYU Music Remix/Echonest remix tool for last weeks.
Learning Goals:
Critical Listening & Recording Analysis
- Listen for, analyze, describe, and realize musical and audio features of recordings
- individual instruments and voices in recordings
- spatial placement of instruments and vocals in perceived space
- balance, panning, filtering/EQ, reverb
- musical form/structure (intro, verse, chorus, etc,).
- Quality of audio & formats (stereo/mono, 128K mp3 vs. 320K mp3 vs. CD audio/44.1/16bit)
- Understand how space is creatively manipulated by recording engineers and producers
- Video/live lectures with Paul Geluso & Agnieska Roginska
- Understand the creative connections among space and timbre/sound quality
- Understand basic audio acoustics
- frequency response (headphones vs. loudspeakers)
- sounds have amplitude, frequency and spectrum
- Understand how to listen to music for its structural qualities (musical form, tempo, instruments, harmony, etc.)
- Understand how to listen to music for its audio qualities (perceived space, format, spectral details)
- Mixing
- Understand the basic structure and audio features in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), specifically Soundation.com.
- Music as layered tracks of recordings
- Audio and MIDI tracks
- Balance, pan, and basic sound effect controls (reverb & filter)
- Basic audio track editing and shifting
- Basic MIDI track editing and shifting
- Understand the creative processes of audio engineers within and around a DAW.
- Video/live lectures with Ron Sadoff and Ben Folds.
- Mix a prerecorded project to match a stereo recording (convergent outcome, bonus creative outcome)
- Remixing
- Understand the main music production features in a DAW.
- MIDI representation of notes and sounds
- MIDI manipulation techniques for music production (doubling, transposing, piano roll editing, chords, etc.)
- Understand the creative processes of music producers within and around a DAW.
- Video/live lectures with Tae Hong Park and Peter Gabriel.
- Understand basic copyright and ownership concepts.
- Understand how to share audio online - SoundCloud.com
- Understand how to analyze and critique a recorded mix, and provide quality feedback.
- Understand how to document and share personal creative processt
Reverse Engineering the Audio Engineer - an inside peek into popular music production
Module 1 - Critical Listening - Instruments, Musical Structure and Space
- Listening to Cologne: Identifying instruments, layers, sections and space/panning
- MusicDelta - Ben Folds' Cologne interactive remix - Balance and panning
- Activity: Convergent mix of Ben Folds' Cologne with MusicDelta custom tool
- Live Lecture & Q&A - Paul Geluso, Prof. of Audio Production at NYU
Module 2 - Critical Listening - Audio Formats, Sound and Timbre
- Descriptive qualities of sound
- Audio Formats - interactive exploration - sound and visuals
- mono, stereo, 128K MP3, 320K MP3, 44.1/16 CD quality audio
- Frequency response & sound reproduction - headphones vs. loudspeaker.
- Creative exploration of space and sound - filters, balance and reverb
- Activity: Interactive audio/visual quiz on audio format/quality and Britney Spears sound-alike mix with template
- exploring low-pass filtering and guiro
- Live Lecture & Q&A: Agnieska Roginska, Prof. of spatial audio at NYU
Module 3 - Intro to Audio Production in the DAW (files would be provided for use outside Soundation, too)
- Working with Audio in a DAW - basic editing and effects
- Activity: Ben Folds' Cologne vocals exploring effects - filter, reverb, & balance.
- Live Lecture & Q&A: Ron Sadoff, Prof. of songwriting and music for film at NYU
- Live Lecture & Q&A: Ben Folds - how he produced and recorded "Cologne"
Module 4 - Intro to MIDI Production in the DAW
- Working with MIDI in a DAW - basic editing and production
- How to provide constructive feedback on peer mixes
- Activity - Remix Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Music Delta tool and Soundation template
- Live Lecture & Q&A: Tae Hong Park, Prof. of composition and computer music at NYU
Module 5 (2 weeks? 1st to make, 2nd to share and comment?) - Remixing in the DAW - 1st Iteration
- Working with Audio and MIDI in a remix
- Copyright and Ownership, sampling and editing
- Guest Video - Peter Gabriel - His process of production
- Soundation Template with sounds curated by Peter Gabriel, including a recording of a remix of a piece by Peter Gabriel in Soundation as a model
- Activity - Remix Peter Gabriel's soundset; share on SoundCloud; Peer evaluate - 3-5 remixes, listen and vote on remixes.
Module 6 (2 weeks?) - Remixing in the DAW - 2nd Iteration
- More tips for remix production
- Live Lecture - Peter Gabriel - His feedback on the top 3-5 remixes; Q&A
- Activity - Taking into account peer feedback, revise your mix and post to celebration gallery for voting/sharing.
Tiered Projects and Badges?
- Withing each module - a basic badge and an advanced badge?
- Basic: differentiating between 44.1 and 128Kmp3; Advanced: why does one sound better than another? what is masked vs. what is heard?
Possible Badges:
- Golden Ears Badge - after Module 2
- Mix Master Badge - After Module 4
- Remix Master Badge - After Module 6
- Hype Man Badge - for social commenting, feedback and sharing
- ????????? - great documentation of process(?)
Tools:
Music Delta - Ben Folds and Mozart mix/remix tools (Free)
Soundation.com - Online DAW; files would also be prepared in a DAW agnostic way for intermediate users
- Soundation is Free, or $20 for ability to use/save own audio files. Could negotiate something with them.
- Also integrates directly with Google Hangout.
- SoundCloud.com - Free - up to 2 hours of audio storage, which should be fine
- Used for social sharing, commenting and voting features