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Hi! My name is Thaya Psyhojos, and I am a senior in the ILR School. I am involved in the concert scene at Cornell as a member of Cornell Concert Commission. While I mainly play my acoustic electric guitar, I also play the piano rather poorly and learned a few songs on ukulele over the summer, but I am excited to learn about the digital production side of things.

Hi everyone!

I’m Claire, a junior studying electrical and computer engineering.  I took piano lessons for years as a kid, and though I hated practicing, I have always and still enjoy tinkering around on a keyboard.  I took an intro music theory in the music department last semester to gain a deeper understanding of music.  I’ve wanted to take this class since I heard about it freshman year, so I’m so excited to work with you all!

Hello everyone,

My name is David Karabinos and I’m a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences double majoring in Computer Science and Statistics. I’ve played a few different instruments in the past: electric guitar, cello, and piano. Over the more recent years of my life however, things have gotten in the way of me continuing my practice of music, but I hope that through this class, I can incorporate what I’ve learned here at Cornell with music, a previous passion of mine.

My name is Hanxiang Hao, a master student in ECE department. I’m also a percussionist in CU Winds and I used to play in post-rock, punk and pop-rock bands in college as a drummer. So if anyone looks for a drummer or wants to work with me in project, feel free to contact me!

Hi everyone!

My name’s Jacob Grossfeld and I’m a current senior in Arts and Sciences majoring in Economics. I’ve been playing guitar and bass for around 8 years now, and I’ve spent some time in the past writing and recording music although I will admit that my production has receded since I went to college, which is partially why I signed up for this class. However, I still devote a significant portion of my time towards music, as I’ve become involved in both the on-campus radio station, WVBR, the student run record label, Electric Buffalo Records, and have some experience working in the business and administrative fields of the music industry. I’ve always been super intrigued by the idea of producing music and have been looking for an instructional hands-on course on DAWs and recording and whatnot for awhile, so I’m super excited to be here. Thanks!

To all students looking to join a music course this semester but who were unable to get into Music 1421–particularly Frenshman and Sophmores who might be thinking of a major or minor in music–I have a recommendation: 1101 Elements of Music, taught by Prof. Andrew Hicks.

As a past a future guest of the course, I can highly recommend it for its nicely-intermingled historical and hands-on/practical approach. A syllabus for the semester is attached for your perusal. Feel free to ask me or contact Prof. Hicks if you think the course might be right for you.

Music 1101 Syllabus

Final semester concert, May 15th at 2pm in Lincoln Hall B20

Concert Order (with rehearsal time in parenthesis):

Joseph Simmons (10:30)
TJ Hurd and Wesley Jung (10:50)
Shining (Christina) Sun (11:10)
Amy Lin (11:30)
Albert Kung/Ryan Lin

Thomas Torng (11:40 … please show up earlier to setup) — Intermission

Adit Arya (12 noon)
Paul DeVito (12:20)
Pehuen Moure  (12:40)
Emre Findik
Miguel Palines (1pm)
Jenae Lowe (1:20)

Hi everyone,

I’ve been thinking about ideas for the final project and was wondering if anyone out there wanted to team up with a saxophone player (me)?

-Jenae (mjl347)

Below are the (randomly selected) group presentation dates and order. Again, if you have not already, please let me know what equipment you need for your performance/presentation. We are planning to present and discuss these in B20 but you are free to use another space as the project seems appropriate (another motivation for us to view the concert and installation pieces together yesterday). Let me know if I can help secure an appropriate space for your idea.

Let me know if there are any errors in the group listing below…one or two of you never wrote and so I am going on a verbal discussion.

TUESDAY

Group 1:
– TJ Hurd
– Wesley Jung

Group 2:
– Amy Lin
– Ryan Lin
– Albert Kung

Group 3:
– Paul Devito
– Adit Arya

THURSDAY:

Group 4:
– Thomas Torng
– Christina Sun
– Emre Findik

Group 5:
– Pehuen Moure
– M. Jenae Lowe

Group 6:
– Joseph Simmons
– Miguel Palines

If you haven’t installed PD yet scroll down one post.

I missed the live performance last week but since I spent a lot of time on it, I figured I might as well not let my effort go to waste. Since Macs have a record screen function, I realized I could also showcase a few of the cool things Ableton has that you may or may not have seen.

My project focuses on using MIDI instruments, rather than taking samples from online. This means I can play any song I want (or rather, the audience wants), and probably make a mashup too. In hindsight though, I recommend making your drum tracks before a live performance… Unfortunately there are some limitations to using MIDI instruments in Ableton, which are very evident at the transitions.

Anyway, have fun! You may or may not recognize the song. http://www.mediafire.com/download/cr8e966f4lcn4gx/Untitled.mp4

Thomas Torng