Yearly Archives: 2019

Hey everyone, my name is Daniel Kozek and I am a senior majoring in ILR. Though I haven’t played in a few years, I played the trumpet from the age of ten through my senior year of high school. During that time I was a member of my school’s wind ensemble for eight years, jazz band for six years, and a brass quartet for two years. In high school I also started to become interested in EDM, a genre which I have only become more passionate about in college. But while I invest hours of my time each week finding new songs, updating playlists, and discovering artists, I know relatively very little about production. This lack in knowledge and absence of experience is what drew me to this class. Over the course of this semester, I hope to both gain proficiency in software and learn from the diverse expertise of my peers in order to enrich my appreciation for the music I love.

Hi, my name is Simran Malhotra. I am a senior majoring in Global and Public Health Sciences, and minoring in Creative Writing and Healthy Futures. Music has always been a huge part of my life growing up. I was an avid clarinetist for 9 years and did some music theory in high school. One of my biggest regrets is not doing music in college, and I am hoping to change that in my final year at Cornell. MUSIC 1421 has been a class I have wanted to take since my freshman year, and I am excited to be a part of it! I have dabbled in very basic GarageBand production, and some composition in my spare time; but I am looking forward to actually gaining concrete skills in digital music composition and software in this class.

Hey Guys! My name is Phil, and I’m a senior in ILR from New York. I started out singing and playing the piano when I was young, but have since moved on to managing a few rappers/indie artists. I have a little experience with basic aspects of DAWS (Garageband since it’s on my computer), but I’m really excited to take this class to learn more about the technical aspects of digital music making and let that help my creative process.

Hi! My name’s Tristan Magloire and I’m a senior majoring in Government. I started venturing into the music industry in 6th grade when I picked up the Alto Sax and my passion has continued since then.

For the last year and a half, I’ve worked at Republic Records as an intern in digital marketing and A&R for Wendy Goldstein (A&R for Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, The Jonas Brothers and others). I’ve also recently began managing a number of signed songwriters, producers, and artists. The reason I decided to join the class was because of the many times that I’ll be in the studio and not have any idea what’s happening. I think I would be much better at my job if I understood the framework of producing and audio engineering. Whether it be helping with mixing or simply improving my listening and creative skills, I’m overall very excited for what I’m about to learn throughout the duration of this class!

Although I don’t play the saxophone anymore, I want to just be more attached to the actual creation of the music that I work with. Additionally, I’m definitely open to collaborating with anyone I think I can create something cool with!

Also… here’s one of the artists I work with:

https://www.instagram.com/baylimusic

She’s a songwriter and artist named Bayli…used to be signed to a band called The Skins signed to Republic but were disbanded and she now works as a songwriter signed to Warner Chappell Publishing.

Feel free to DM me on Instagram! … @tristn.psd

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My name’s Tom and I’m a senior majoring in electrical and computer engineering and minoring in physics. Music has been a big part of my life for as long as I can remember, and I’m really excited to learn the software side of it all in this course. I’ve played guitar for about 11 years and drums for about 8. Throughout high school I played guitar in a punk rock band with friends from school, and after that I started to play drums in a sorta alternative blues rock band called Fuzz Aldrin. 

I’ve tried to record music a handful of times with both bands, but it’s never really panned out well. A couple weeks ago my current band and I recorded our first album which is still unmixed and completely unedited. I’m really excited to learn all the tools I need in this class to finally help take my experience as a musician to a higher level.

I don’t have much experience with producing aside from a handful of acoustic songs on Garageband. I recently got FL Studio but have yet to set aside enough time to learn to use it well. I’m excited about Prof. Ernste’s emphasis on versatility rather than committing to using one program, and I think it’d be fun to collaborate with other students on projects at some point this semester.

I’m Paul. I am a father, human, and activist who plays trumpet and teaches improvisation and music. I am looking for tools and spaces.

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My name is AG Colinco and I’m a senior majoring in Biomedical Engineering with minors in Music and Southeast Asian Studies on the pre-med track. I love composing and songwriting, and I dabble in producing and writing music (although my production skills are little to none at this point). I’m also really into the tech and electrical engineering side and have taken a few classes on wiring and making microphones and other things of the sort. I play the piano and alto saxophone, and I love singing. I mostly write soft/chill R&B, soul, indie, and contemporary Christian music. Excited for this class and to see what we all produce!

Today in class I began to share some work done by former students of Music 1421 and 2421 (my advanced follow-up course).

I wanted to pass aky some of that work here for you to listen to … and inspire your own work for the semester.

Enjoy!

Nathan Ward’s “punk rock” setting of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Alone”:

Ross Anderson’s “Auto DJ”, with video explaining the project.

Suneth Attygale’s “Drum Solo” for live drummer, beatboxer, and laptop.

Ethan M’s “Patton’s Naked Lunch”.

Amy Lin’s remake/cover of Madeon’s original “Pop Culture“:

Hi everyone,

My name is Hoggie (pronounced like the sub), and I’m a senior majoring in Economics. I’ve been passionate about music since around middle school – I was in a progressive rock band as a guitarist back then, which took up most of my time growing up. We both covered songs and composed our own pieces, and promised each other that we would eventually meet in Berklee to continue our musical careers. Well, here I am studying something completely different in Cornell, but the twins in the band actually stuck to their dreams and accomplished some milestones here in the states studying and performing jazz music – you should check them out! They go by “The Maguire Twins.”

I on the other hand, got into electronic music a few years ago, and spent some time here and there producing my own tunes, primarily using Logic and FL Studio. I’d say I’m still a beginner though – I never took formal lessons on digital music and also wasn’t too dedicated in making something out of it.

I’m not picky when it comes to genres that I appreciate, but at the moment, I love listening to house, techno, future funk, modern r&b/jazz, and pretty much anything that sounds pristine, crisp and well-produced with noticeable electronic influences!