AGENDA

June 17, 2013


a series of musical tinkering experiences

• that you can share with others
• lighter requirement on people's ability to use a complete set of tools
• can use tools in different ways
• organized around a set of musical ideas
  • melody
    • melodymorph
    • impromptu?
    • MIDI sequencer
    • seaquence
    • http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata
    • one thing that sounds happy/one thing that sounds sad (what does that mean as expressed in music)
  • rhythm
    • drum sequencers:http://www.onemotion.com/flash/drum-machine/
    • use shuffle
  • timbre
    • playing with synthesis
    • http://www.taktech.org/takm/WebFMSynth/
    • field recording and looking at spectrograms
  • harmony
  • song form

• A reflective experience
  • It's easy to poke buttons and make sounds
  • Trying to answer those questions to change what you did and see if you get different results
  • Inquiry process of the looking deeper into musical parameters--notes line up with beats in the measure

Learning Design

• modular experience--you can use last week or not
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Express Yourself in Music

• Get over your fear
  • Digital karaoke
  • Play a kazoo (find a digital kazoooooooooo)
• Match a pitch [Why is this important?]
  • Vocal Match: controls the game with your ability to match a pitch: http://trainer.thetamusic.com/en/content/matching-pitch
• Keeping time / percusive
  • Record yourself keeping time for 30 seconds, using your hands and any body surface, and post it to soundcloud
  • Beatbox for 15 seconds, post it to SoundCloud
• Writing lyrics:
  • Restraint: Write the chorus of a song
• Create a track using Melody Morph

Outstanding questions
using melody maker--and another tool? so folks can choose/

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THOUGHTS AND STUFF FROM ERIC
OH IT'S ALL RED I GUESS I DIDN"T NEED TO POINT THAT OUT explicitly or write in all caps for that matter

musical intros
who are you as a musical person? everyone has a musical life. tell us about childhood songs you sang, bands you like, music you dance to, instruments that family and friends like to play, instruments you play, instruments you wish you could play, music you've created, music you wish you could create.
what are your musical goals? what does creative musical making mean to you? do you wish you could write a song? improvise with a group? perform a song for your friend? make remix? compose a film score?
everybody makes a 30 second video just talking about these two questions, with optional musical examples
I LOVE THIS



musical material
everyone somehow generates raw musical material to later be used in remixes by the group. collective co-creation, anybody can use anybody else's stuff. you have a choice for what kind of material to submit, but it has to be in a small chunk: a short sound recording (e.g environmental sounds), a short melodic recording (e.g. sung or played on an instrument), a short sample taken from existing recorded music or sound, a fragment of lyrics. this requires introducing some tools, but simple ones- just audio recording mainly. later on, we can play with manipulating the sounds (slicing them up, changing the pitch, etc), putting them into a sequencer. later exercises of this type can introduce more constraints: everyone makes a sound using their voice, or chooses a one second sample from a recording, or composes a short melody. then the creation exercises using this material can be more focused.

what is the scope?
musical creativity includes lots of things like: acoustic musical instrument performance, digital music performance, improvisation, composition.
so we could narrow to "electronic music creation," but then it sounds like we're making dance music
how about "using technology to discover your musical creativity"--->we love this
and it would be nice if the scope also included some concrete goals- you'll be able to compose and record a short song to send to a friend, say, or make a musical score for a short video. probably not any sort of real-time musical performance.  

Musical Expression
online, you will compose , record, and share a short song of your *own* making




constrait the "what there is to know" part a lot

garage band--exisitng loops that you can tinker with

remixing sampled sounds

tools: 
-using audacity
-use the soundcloud audio recording bit



how to introduce remixing?



June 10, 2013


Framing:
Music Making
Musical Expression

• Getting to Musical expressiveness without the barrier of technique or knowledge (not the first thing to learn)

vs. 

Music Appreciation 

• Listening / taking things apart

Learning Goals: 

• meaningfully express yourself in music
• make a project each week that we can share 
• musical collaboration / music as communication

Activities
match a pitch
keeping time with your body, playing along
writing lyrics
singing in the shower
remixing by adding a track

Melody morph

Representation (vs. standard music notation)
allows your to use the shape of the canvas to see the melody in your mind
use space as space--put things where you want them--allows you to create the representation you want
creates a landscape that you move through

http://www.jamwithchrome.com/unsupported?link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jamwithchrome.com%2F
http://inbflat.net/
beatboxing--rhythm and meter, percussion
How can people make something together with the right combination of open-endedness and constraint
ie the key
http://web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/mmmtsss/
http://www.vidrhythm.com/