As with Project One, your primary goal should be to create something musically engaging (both to us and to you), something beyond the technical focus of the assignments.  The duration should be between 3 and 5 minutes.  I would suggest one of two approaches:

- Continue your work from the first project, expanding upon or reworking materials or ideas from your initial piece.

- Use this project as an opportunity to experiment with a new idea looking toward the final project and concert.

With respect to software tools, I recommend you use any and all of the tools at your disposal which serve your musical intentions.  Here are three possible guidelines:

1. Create a song using Reason.  As we have discovered Reason presents a remarkably flexible and powerful environment, a self-contained compositional toolkit.  Having done several shorter pieces there, now compose something more substantial.

2. Using Reason as a potential sound resource, create a mix/song/pastiche in Cubase or Live.  You can combine the capabilities of these applications via Rewire or simply build your sound sources as individual soundfile/submixes exported from Reason.

3. Use any or all (or none) of the tools from the semester, investigating new ones if needed (perhaps exploring JACK, networked MIDI, or others presented/suggested during lecture).  Try to get beyond what any one applications does "well" to what they can do for your idea.

If you have any questions or would like further information, don't hesitate to contact me directly.