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Please add your own post, rather than a replying to another student. – Prof. E

Hi, I’m Eshaan, a senior Psych major! I’ve played a few instruments since I was a kid (piano, drums, and violin), and am just starting to get interested in using DAWs to make computer music. Just like Irwin, I’m really into hip hop, but also R&B. Looking forward to the semester!

My main instrument is ukulele (playing it for 3 years now) and am currently learning guitar (only a month in) and potentially bass as well. Enrolled in the class because I am curious about music production and don’t know anything about it and would like to actually learn what it entails. Currently have zero experience with using music software. Would love to collaborate with others and attempt to make my own music. Currently into mostly Hip-hop and Alternative Rock but enjoy most genres.

DIGITAL MUSIC Lessons

Learn to produce your own music in Cornell’s electro-acoustic music studios or with our own gear.

Topics can include audio recording, editing, mixing, MIDI sequencing, sampling, effects processing, software synthesis, digital orchestration/arranging, scoring to video, music theory, composition, and music production on iOS. We can design a program that suits your needs, interests, and level of experience.

About the instructor:

Eric Feinstein has over 30 years of experience as a composer/producer, having created a wide range of music for dance, theatre, film and television. He has been giving private lessons in digital music to Cornell undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty since 2003.

All lessons for Fall 2020 taught via Zoom.

For an application/questionnaire, or for more information, contact ehf6@cornell.edu

Here’s the performance based on the project we worked with this afternoon in labs.

Hey all! I brought this up in class, if anyone’s interested in looking more I’ll link Joey Psycho’s latest single and the link to the event.

https://levelmusic.lnk.to/MrFantastic

https://www.facebook.com/events/985406128508620/

Hope to see some of you there!

-Phil

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.

Kyle Simpson Chamber Orchestra Presents A Trip To the Moon

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

Hey y’all my name is Daniel Massillon, most people call me Danny. I’m a senior biology major and business minor on the pre-med track in Arts and Sciences. I was also added off the waitlist just before the add deadline, and I’m really grateful to be in this class. I grew up in a city called Lynn about 20 minutes north of Boston. I’ve been involved with music in some way since I was 3. I started off learning to play the piano by ear at 3 and started taking lessons when I was 5 until I turned 17. I was always into R&B music production and songwriting and I started making my own ‘Chris Brown-like” songs in 3rd grade. I started singing in the school choir at 5 and started singing in church when I was 10. In highschool, I was able to take a couple of music production classes and work with Audacity, Garageband, and Ableton to make a short demo album. I’m familiar with professional studio equipment. Here at Cornell, I sing and I still casually produce and write. I wanted to take this course because I’m really eager to learn more about audio manipulation in this class and become better at editing and mixing. I also want to get acquainted with a different type of production workflow (usually I work with MIDI more so than raw audio recordings). I would love to collaborate with anyone else who’s interested in songwriting. I’m open to all genres!