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I’m Tyler and I am a senior Applied Economics and Management student minoring in Music and Communication. I have been playing the saxophone and guitar for numerous years, and have some performance experience on both. I am primarily in this class to most effectively record my own music, and am extremely excited to learn.

Hey y’all, I’m Jeremy Baxter. I’m a senior majoring in music, and a keyboardist, vocalist, and composer. I sing in four different vocal groups on campus, and direct two of them, including being the Music Director of The Hangovers.

In this class I’m first of all hoping to learn some of the basics of recording, mixing, and producing music. It’s been a goal of mine for a long time to self-produce a solo album. In an entirely different realm, I have also been working on an idea for a more experimental composition which would use edited samples of highway sounds, and I will be especially attuned to looking for ideas and techniques to apply to that project. I’m also ready and excited to jump at new musical ideas though, and although I haven’t done a lot of collaborative music writing in the past, I am open to it!

Hi all,

My name is Chris Paradis and I’m a senior studying Psychology and Business.

Music is an important part of my life, and I began making songs around the spring of my sophomore year. I am eager to learn more about the core concepts of digital music including mixing, recording vocals, and effectively using samples to create hip hop tracks.

Currently, I’m a signed artist for Electric Buffalo Records (an on-campus student run record label) and hope to utilize the skills and I knowledge I develop in this course to improve my contributions to EBR.

I look forward to a fantastic semester and feel very grateful to have received a spot in the class!

Best,
Chris

Hi All! My name is Natalie Murphy and I’m a Senior in ILR. This is my first music class at Cornell, but I’ve been playing instruments for much of my life. I took piano lessons for 10 years and played for my high school’s jazz choir, but more recently I’ve picked up the guitar as well. I have a little performance experience through jazz choir and a few solo performances I have done over the years. I’m taking this class because I want to push myself out of my comfort zone and learn the technical side of making music. I’ve never tried my hand at songwriting and this class seems like a good place to start. I do still play my instruments and have a few guitars and a mandolin here at school and am very interested in collaborating with others in the class.

My name is Matt Chen and I am a senior Biology and Society major in the College of Arts and Sciences. I’ve been a musician for most of my life, playing piano since the age of 6, picked up guitar and ukelele about 4 years ago, and currently in the process of learning the drums. My music tastes span multiple genres, though, so I’ve always been really into electronically produced music as well, and I’m just interested in getting to learn about the inner workings of music like that and hopefully produce my own content through this course.

Hey guys! My name is Stephen, I am a junior pursuing an independent major in Immersive Computing focusing around Virtual and Augmented Reality. I have been playing the saxophone for about 10 years and also play some other random instruments like tuba and clarinet. I’m really passionate about jazz ever since I joined my middle school’s jazz band and play in the jazz ensemble on campus. I am also a huge gamer and am extremely interested in game design, ludomusicology and sound design for video games. I have worked with Ableton Live 10 to make music for the Intro to Game Design course and my roommate and I make music together in our spare time, but I still haven’t really gotten a firm grasp on all the in’s and outs of the software so I am extremely excited for this class!

Hey all,

My name is Ethan Goolish, and I’m a senior studying Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics with interests in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. I’ve always loved listening to music casually, whether that be experimenting with different genres or building up different playlists, but never have had the opportunity to be able to create something myself. I played piano for many years when I was younger, but have fallen out of practicing since college. I dabbled around with some free DJ software freshman year (Virtual DJ and a little bit of Audacity), but am excited to be able to learn formally. Can’t wait to see what everyone brings to the table and I’m sure I’ll be astounded by the creativity of all you classmates.

I primarily listen to a wide range of EDM nowadays (Illenium, San Holo, Gryffin, Louis the Child, MiTis, Inukshuk, Said the Sky, Jai Wolf, Ekali, Madeon, Odesza, Porter Robinson).

Hi everyone! My name is Crystal and I’m an M. Eng student studying biomedical engineering. I’ve played the violin for 13+ years now. While I’ve participated in a bunch of orchestras and chamber groups, my favorite part of making music has always been improvising and jamming out with fellow musicians. I loved composing as a kid, and that drive to create my own music never left me – which is what brings me here. I’ve been dying to learn how to produce songs and to learn how to use the digital tools available today to make all kinds of new sounds. Throughout the semester I hope to figure out how to produce my own catchy pop song, heartfelt ballad, and epic movie soundtrack.

My hobbies include drawing (digital art), language learning (French, Japanese, Korean), singing, and voice acting. Let me know if you have any ideas that call for these misc. skills, I’d love to collaborate!

I took this class because I like music and computers. I play the trumpet and ukulele and like playing music with people. I hope that through this class I can make music with people and make new friends!

Hi everyone! I’m Iris and I’m a senior studying Applied Economics and Management, with a minor in music. Music has always been a big part of my life, but I’ve been more of an appreciator rather than a creator since coming to Cornell. I started off with the piano when I was roughly 7 years old and later on picked up the violin, but I don’t play either instrument very often nowadays as seems to be standard with a lot of Cornellians.

I consume a lot of music, which has led me to want to learn more about the production side. I listen to a wide variety of music, but recently, I’ve been listening to a lot of ambient electronic, “IDM” (for lack of a better term), post-punk & revival, noise, and math rock. As the semester progresses, I am definitely interested in collaborating with classmates.