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Music 2421

January 30, 2018 1:39 AM //

Hello!

My name is Christopher Oh, a sophomore in Engineering majoring in Computer Science. I took MUSIC 1421 this past semester and thoroughly enjoyed it. Since then, I’ve been playing around with Ableton, Audacity, and my keyboard/midi controller, composing for friends or just for fun.

Otherwise, I have minimal limited musical experience: I took almost a year of classical piano lessons when I was five, and I played trombone in middle school. However, since then, I have been experimenting with chords and improvising to become the self-taught pianist (with lots to learn) I am today. The bulk of my musical experience comes from serving in my church worship team as a keyboardist through middle school and high school. With this, I’ve had the honor of serving at various retreats and other events. On the engineering side of things, I worked as the sound guy for our praise teams as well as children’s ministry and the adults’ service in our main sanctuary. I also worked a lot with Arduinos and other microcontrollers to interface with different sensors and musical instruments and also to make speakers.

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Ronnie Forster – Assignment 0

January 30, 2018 12:09 AM //

Hey all, my name is Ronnie Forster and I’m an MEng student in Mechanical Engineering from Maryland.  I’ve always been super into music, have attended over 400 live sets and multiple festivals across the world.  I’m super interested in the electronic sound space (ODESZA, Porter Robinson, Slow Magic, Tycho, San Holo) and how visual effects and sound can combine to create amazing experiences.  I’m somewhat self taught in Ableton Live (shoutout to those Lynda tutorials, they’re pretty great, definitely recommend them).  Have some background in music from Trumpet/Guitar in high school.  Hoping this class put some structure into getting into my creative side some more so I can actually start making some good content.  Looking forward to the semester!

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Hi it’s Huy here.

January 29, 2018 12:58 PM //

Hello everyone,

I am Huy, a senior in Biology, A&S. I took 1421 last year and it was super awesome, so now here I am again.
Before 1421, I was not a serious musician but I have worked as Radio DJ for CornellRadio.com and independently, and I also organized bands and VJ back in my hometown Hanoi, Vietnam during High School. Coming in 2421 I hope to make use of new softwares and hardwares to improve my live visual techniques, while also learning how to be better with DAWs. If you are interested in visual effects that responds to your music in real time, it would be great if we could talk.

If you are interested in what I do and listen to, here are some links:
https://soundcloud.com/coolagen/tracks – I only have tracks I have done for 1421 uploaded so far.
https://www.last.fm/user/c0llagen – A tracking site of what music I been listening to.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/JexplosionCR/videos/ – The page for my radio show, and also some audio-reactive visuals I have made.

Hope to have a good time with everyone this semester.

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Jerry Liu

January 29, 2018 12:30 AM //

Hey everyone, my name is Jerry and I’m a fifth year B-Arch student. I took the Intro to Computer Music course by Kevin about 2 years ago and have since fallen in love with making music.

Check out my soundcloud, although I haven’t posted stuff in a while… https://soundcloud.com/jerry-liu-14/tracks

I look forward to meeting everyone and learn from everyone! And of course always down if anyone want to collab and do some sessions together!

Cheers!

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Assignment 0 – Music 2421

January 28, 2018 5:31 PM //

Hello.  My name is Anna Bores.  I am a Junior in ILR and I am minoring in Music, Computing in the Arts, and possibly Inequality Studies.  I am the Musical Director of Hearsay A Cappella and I am a member of Contrapunkt!, which is Cornell’s undergraduate composers organization.  In terms of musical background I sing in basically any genre (pop, classical, etc.), I was a vocal major at LaGuardia High School of the Arts, and I play a little bit of piano.  I’ve been writing music for the past 6 years.  I tend to write a Pop/Indie/Electronic blend and then occasionally classical when I feel like it.  I took music 1421 last semester and it was awesome so I’m super excited for this semester.  I hope to become a better electronic musician.

I’m excited to get to know all of you!
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Greetings

January 27, 2018 3:55 PM //

Hey, I’m Charles. I’m a third year music major with interest in performance and composition. I play drums and other percussion instruments, a bit of guitar, some piano, and recently I’ve been working on more experimental music with contact mics, feedback, and objects like electric toothbrushes and sheet metal. I’m here because I want to learn more about using DAWs for both composition and production. I’m wary of saying I’m into all types of music but I like a good variety of stuff, e. Check out my Rate Your Music for more specific info: https://rateyourmusic.com/~frolord

I have a soundcloud if you’re into bedroom dark ambient made on Audacity and poorly recorded drum ideas from five years ago: https://soundcloud.com/charles_chatman

I’m also playing a noise set today at The Cherry near Ithaca Commons at 8:30 (I’m Flose): https://www.facebook.com/events/895695983919976/

Sorry for all the links and self-plugs. Hope we have a good semester, I look forward to see what we learn from each other

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Steven Romero

January 27, 2018 3:32 PM //

Hi everyone, my name is Steven and I’m a freshman Music major in the College of Arts & Sciences.  My goal is to be a hip-hop music producer, and right now I’ve been spending a lot of time with Logic and also collaborating with some vocalists on campus.  I took this class last semester and loved it.  If you are a rapper/singer looking to make some music, hit me up and maybe we can record something cool!

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Hey, I’m Amanda

January 26, 2018 5:53 PM //

I have an old intro post from taking 1421 in 2016 somewhere on this site, but for an updated version: hey everyone, I’m a junior in electrical and computer engineering. My main thing is that I play piano, and have tried a bunch of other instruments, but only really stuck with piano. Always down to learn a new one!

I’m planning on doing the Game Design minor, so the goal is to be able to learn more about sound design and music composition with respect to that. I have some light background in piano composition, and got to test the waters a bit with 1421. Generally, I just want to have a good time and make something cool. Hit me up if you’re interested in collaborating and need a pianist/engineer!

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Kai Pacheco

January 26, 2018 5:22 PM //

Hey I’m Kai. I’m a Junior Operations Research major and I’m taking this class because I’ve always been pretty interested in producing and performing music. I play the piano and have messed around with FL Studio before. I occasionally put some stuff up on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/hellachecks, feel free to check it out if you want. I don’t listen to any specific type of music in particular, I just enjoy hearing great tunes.

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First 2421 blog post + intro?

January 26, 2018 12:57 PM //

Hey guys, I’m Anshuman (Anshu), a student in MUSIC 2421 this semester. I didn’t take 1421 last semester, so I’m pretty new to all this music editing, but I’ve played piano for almost 18 years, so I thought it’d be cool to apply that in electronic music production. I hope to get better at Ableton and Audacity this semester to produce music in my free time.

What I’m really trying to accomplish this semester is to learn how to write my own lofi hip-hop music, so if anyone’s interested in that, hit me up for sure. I’m open to really any kind of music, but have an affinity to a jazzier style (even though I only have experience in classical music).

Asides from music, I’m a mechanical engineer with growing electronics background in embedded systems and embedded operating systems, so I hope that by the end of the semester, I can create something cool for the class. Let me know if this is something that you’d be interested in! Hope to get to know you all better!

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