Also, I was watching this series on YouTube made by genius where they take popular songs and ask the producers about how they made it. My favorite one so far has been the making of Passionfruit by Drake where Nana Rogues, the producer, talks about how he tried to make a beat that felt like clouds. It’s the fifth video in the playlist if you guys want to skip to it. I found it really interesting and I hope everyone enjoys.
Pablo here
Hey everyone
My name is Pablo Ruiz and I am a sophomore in Electrical Engineering. I’m from College Park, Maryland and I have a passion for waves. It all started back in 10th grade physics when we did a unit on sound waves. Just learning about timbre, frequency, and overtones interested me so much that, long story short, I decided to become an electrical engineer (I figured they worked with waves). I love music and I love discovering new sounds. I listen to mainly indie and rap music. I flip between the two depending on where I am (rap back at home and indie at school). I have zero experience with sound production but I am super interested and very excited to learn. I am in the Chorale here and I can play the violin, piano, a little bit of guitar and even less harmonica.
Excited for this semester
First 2421 blog post + intro?
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!
With your sampling assignment in progress, perhaps these will inspire…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgVlvOV-SQ8
Yo whaddup this is MC Cynthia in the hizzy
Music has always been a big part of my life, besides the fact that I’m constantly on the prowl on Spotify and YouTube, I also create some loops on my own time, sometimes with lyrics. So if you need a female vocalist, feel free to ask me.
I used to play a bit of piano and oboe so I have a bit of a classical background. Although most of my audio producing experience has been from editing my podcast that I did last year as an independent study and from last semester in 1421.
This year, I hope to get a little crazy and just do weird stuff. I’m really into Wintergatan’s Marble Machine and the thought of creating something even on one-tenth of the scale of that thing would be incredible.
Concert’s recording
Will the recording of the concert be available to us to see? I would like to see it again!
Fried Rice Survey (for final presentation)
https://goo.gl/forms/eOcoUKOzf3rXgd6i2
Concert Order
Please see below for a concert order. We will try to keep the concert moving by have all three stations (studio laptops 1 and 2 or your own computer) filled with performers at all times, one performing and the others preparing.
If you are not, for any reason, not listed here or must adjust your time on the concert (think roughly an hour per section), let me know ASAP. I have tried to accommodate all desired times, alternate studio and personal computers, and provide variety in the performance. I’m excited for the performance.
INTERMISSION 2: Sawyer Neely
| NAME | COMPUTER |
|---|---|
| Michael Downey | Laptop 1 |
| Glenna Zhang and Swetha Thiagarajan | Laptop 2 |
| Rajiv Moturu | Own Computer |
| Steven Romero | Laptop 1 |
| Agnes Shin | Laptop 2 |
| Benjamin Kang | Own Computer |
| George Wyand | Laptop 1 |
| INTERMISSION 1: Joel Hoover, game | |
| Joel Hoover (performance/showcase) | Own Computer |
| Ezra Pak-Harvey, Tyler Tracy, Justin Adelson, Adam Lefkowitz | Laptop 1 |
| Cagla Sokullu | Laptop 2 |
| Chris Worden | Own Computer |
| Brady Kellum | Laptop 1 |
| Anna Bores | Laptop 2 |
| Huy Le | Own Computer |
| Benjamin Kang | Own Computer and Laptop1 |
| INTERMISSION 2: Sawyer Neely | |
| Arthur Wang, Caleb Zhu, Randy Tung | Laptop 1 |
| Matthew Gharrity | Laptop 2 |
| David Burgstahler | Own Computer |
| Cynthia He | Laptop 1 |
| Dean Olin | Laptop 2 |
| Chris Oh | Own Computer |
| Patrick Mosquera | Laptop 1 |
| Edward Fang | Laptop 2 |
Project 2
Hello everyone,
I’m going to use my project 2 as starting material for the final project, but I didn’t share it in class, so I thought I’d share it here. It has a lot of room for improvement, so all feedback (negative and positive) is welcome!
Interconnectivity and network controllers
Below are several examples of the methods discussed in today’s lecture.
1. Ableton Live and Rewire:
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209774305-Using-Live-and-ReWire
2. MIDI loopback devices and the OSX IAC bus with Live:
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209774225-Using-virtual-MIDI-buses-in-Live
– On Windows there is MIDI Yoke, part of MIDI OX
3. Soundflower audio loopback:
- Download: https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower (code), and https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower/releases/tag/2.0b2 (installer)
- Information: https://soundflower.en.softonic.com/mac#app-softonic-review
4. Open Sound Control
- Information (technical): http://opensoundcontrol.org/introduction-osc
- TouchOSC Editor information and download
PD patch examples from class:
- Simple OSC example osc_simple-dumpOSC.pd
- Wiimote resonance filter example: wiimote.pd
- FaceOSC face tracking software download.
- FaceSynth (my own PD patch for parsing FaceOSC: FaceSynth
- Reactivision / reactable information