Hey y'all! My name is Lewis King and I am a junior in Operations Research and Information Engineering. I am from Austin, Texas and have lived there almost my whole life. As a kid I played piano for many years and guitar for a year or two, but I ended up pursuing other things and never got to really explore my musical side...so that's why I'm here! I have always been an avid music fan, making sure to attend Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits Music Festivals every year and going out to concerts as much as possible. My interests span from classical to dubstep, but for the last couple of years I have become obsessed with hip-hop. I listen to anything with a killer, intricate beat and smart rhymes and can't wait to learn to make some beats of my own. I would like to gain the skills to collaborate and jam with friends from Cornell and back in Texas.

Heyhey,

My name is Charlie Jiao, I'm a junior pre-med student. But that stuff is boring and music is a lot more fun. I grew up playing piano but stopped at some point in high school and picked up the bass instead. I played with a band for about a year but my musical involvement has slowed since coming to school. I'm taking this class so that I can learn some useful skills that will help me start new bands and music projects here in ithaca.

Hello fellow Music 1421'ers

My name is Jeff Shane, and I'm a senior math/econ double major. I'm a very musical person, and I play piano in the Cornell Jazz Ensembles. I also play flute, which I played in marching band in high schoo, but I don't play it very frequently anymore.

One of the main draws for why I chose this class is to do composition in a way that I have never had the chance to before. I write some music on my own, usually something jazzy, latin-y, rock-y, or miscellaneous stuff. I also really like writing and listening to stuff in odd time, because I think it's a really interesting way to create new rhythms and new feels.

I also would like to learn how to use music software to hopefully record and mix my own music. Software-wise, I've used Finale PrintMusic to write sheet music, but have never used any recording software, so I'm really looking forward to learning how to use those.

I would like to do some collaboritive work, perhaps with a guitarist or a wind player. But I'd be willing to try stuff with anybody - just let me know!

Hey all -

My name is Doug and I'm a senior in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. Since I have some notion that music is way more entertaining than engineering, I've been doing my best to ensure that my schedule contains a healthy number of music courses. I played classical piano for about 12 years back in the day and have been trying to get back into that as well as some jazz piano. Other instruments include (but are not limited to) bass guitar, djembe and didgeridoo though I don't claim to be overly talented in those respects.

I audited Intro to Digital Music last semester and loved the course material, though I wasn't really able to get the hands on experience that I wanted, hence one of my main reasons for taking this course. I hinted at my love for Looney Toons in class, and so if anyone has any animation experience, I'd love to collaborate and maybe put together some sort of modern-day cartoon with a Looney Toons flavor. If you watch cartoons nowadays you'll notice less great music than was present in the past, so I'd like to bring back that musical aspect that has long since been forgotten.

Hi everyone,

I'm Sam and I'm a junior English/music major. I play several instruments but focus mostly on piano/organ and guitar. I'm very interested in composition and digital music, and I also consider myself a pretty big fan of cinema. I spend a lot of time thinking about the ways in which music affects our perception of our environment and our perceptions of other art forms. The merging of arts has always fascinated me, and I would love in particular to work on film scoring, sound/art exhibits, and other expanded forms of multimedia/sound art in a variety of musical and visual styles.

Hello, my name is Andrew Levy and I'm a senior philosophy major.  I have taken intro to electronic music and that's about it for songwriting classes.  I have been writing music on my computer since freshman year, though, on a simple program which has guitar tab notation instead of typical ledger line notation (although I can also write that type of music).  Last semester for my final project I wrote a song and played it along with a video on youtube.  I wrote the song before I had ever seen the video, but I still loved the interplay between both media.  I have always loved soundtracks and how music can change video, and so I thought this class would be very interesting.

Hello everyone,

I am currently a college scholar major in A&S studying visual and auditory psychology along with sound design. I was forced to pick up the violin at the age of 4, but I am also forever grateful for that. I have also learned to play guitar, bass, and taiko drums along the way. I have been producing my own music for awhile now. I have a difficult time pinpointing my musical interests because I have a tendency to wander in terms of choosing particular genres.

I took Music 220 last year, which helped give me direction in terms of my musical interests. I hope to expand my production skills into the realm of visual art through this class and as always, I am genuinely excited to learn from Professor Ernste.

Best,

Brian

Hellllllloooo everybody! I am Praveen Narayanan, and I am a freshman at the College of Arts & Sciences. I come from a city called New Delhi, which is in this totally fascinating country called India, where the sounds, smells, tastes and sights that I encountered everyday were so rich and full that I have yearned to record them and compose music all my life. I started with Carnatic (South Indian) Classical singing at the age of five, and since then I have been interested in playing a new instrument every time I came across one. I believe I can strum a guitar, and drum on walls, desks and glasses fairly well. While I'm undecided about my major, I have a desire to study Physics here at Cornell. I would like to take a lot of music courses, but I do not find twentieth century classical music to be the most appealing.

I think I would like more to experiment with all the sounds nature has to offer. This is my first class with Prof. Ernste, and I am naturally excited about learning to use technology to record and create.

Hey everyone,

My name is Tom Hayford. I am a sophomore physics major in the college of arts and sciences. I play the piano and write some songs too. I like all types of music, but half of the songs on my iPod are from soundtracks. Im abig fan of James Horner, Hanz Zimmer, Bear McCreary, and David Arnold, among others. I'm a sucker for dramatic emotional scores. Thats the type of music I would like to write. I'm hoping that the challenges in this class might push my music to the next level with the added depth from that associated images. yup, thats about all i think. 

Hi all,

I am Vivian, a junior Music and Economics major. I play the piano and a teeny bit of violin. I have no background in digital music, but I have taken four semesters of music theory and done an independent study in composition. I am a huge fan of Dannt Elfman and Tim Burton. I have been listening to the soundtrack of the Nightmare before Christmas for many years and I still haven't got tired of it.