Here’s the performance based on the project we worked with this afternoon in labs.
The Kyle Simpson Chamber Orchestra
Composer Kyle Simpson and his Pittsburgh-based chamber orchestra will perform his original scores alongside a live screening of two of the most popular movies from the silent film era: “A Trip to the Moon” (1902) and “The Kingdom of the Fairies” (1903) by French director Georges Méliès.
Students are cordially invited to join The Kyle Simpson Chamber Orchestra on November 22, 2019 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music at Mary Flagler Cary Hall at 8 p.m. The admission is $10 for adults and $8 for students.
Hip-hop collective
A number of you have been asking about courses for next semester and I thought this might interest some of you:
MUSIC 3616,C Hip-Hop Collective
This course is open to experienced rappers and beatmakers interested in improving their craft and forging collaborative relationships with other students. Weekly meetings will entail workshopping lyrics and beats, composing collaborative tracks, improvising/freestyling, and developing performance skills.
https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP20/class/MUSIC/3616
Music of former students
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“:
Studio signup reminder
To sign up for a studio time on the course website, log in with the username you created. Then:
1. Go to “Studios” and click on “Sign up for studio times —>”
2. Choose a studio to sign up for from the drop-down menu.
Note that at the top of this signup page, you will also see a list of your current bookings, if any. Here you can cancel times that you no longer need, important as a courtesy to you colleagues.
3. Click on a desired time slot and confirm it. The schedule defaults to showing the current week and the following week, but you can navigate to future calendars as you like.
Sound check times and performance order
Below is the concert order for tomorrow, including soundcheck times listed after. Performances start at 3pm. I’m looking forward to seeing the results!
Steven Romero — 2:20
Brady Kellum — 2:00
David Cabuenas — 1:40
Tyler Tracy and Pablo Ruiz — 1:20
Rene Jean-Baptiste — 1:00
Yihao Chen — 12:40
Amanda Trang — 12:20
BREAK
Huy Le, Kai Pacheco, and Anshuman Das — Any time after 10 for setup and soundcheck
Jerry Xuan Yu Liu — 12:00
Charles Chatman — 11:40
Anna Bores — 11:20
Chris Oh
Salief Lewis 11:00
Performance order, 4/17 and 4/19
Remember that our performance will be in the larger room, Lincoln Hall B21. I will be there setting up starting at 2:40. Feel free to come early and put your files on the computer or, in the case of the first group, get setup. See you this week.
Tuesday, April 17th:
Huy, Kai, and Chris
Anshuman and Xuan Yu
David, Charles, and Salief
Thursday, April 19th:
Amanda and Yihao
Anna and Brady
Tyler and Pablo
Rene and Steven
Some listening and exploration from yesterday
Brin Eno’s “ambient” / “generative” piece, Music for Airports (40th Anniversary yesterday):
Algorithmic composition with PD and Max, including patches (visible or in links):
–> also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70KvnEUHS4U
Sonification examples:
Weather data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX0t41UQD0Y
Stock market data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSmMaPT9VI8
Live coding with PD and Tidal:
Live coding with PD and Gem (video / image processing):
PD and Gem (or Processing, another free video / graphics software from MIT):
A general tutorial for Gem, building a simple patch for mixing two video files, can be found here: