From ajl Sent Fri, Jul 10th 1998, 08:02
From ajl Sent Fri, Jul 10th 1998, 08:02
I took this class a few years back w/ the aparently unintentional course # of MUS 303. We basically used decade-plus old equipment to make our tracks. All we had in the studio to work with was a mini-moog, yamaha dx-7, a mic, some basic fx processor, 4track and 2 track reel-to-reel decks... all connected via a ghetto-style patch bay. At first I was really disappointed with what we had to work with to make our projects... it was old skool for sure. no midi. tape loops the old fashioned way: cut & splice the tape and hang it on mic stands and whatnot to keep it snug while looping through the reel to reel deck. As I look back on it, i'm so glad we used only these elements to make our music. that grassroots approach was pretty refreshing. musique concr=E9te techniques galore. oh yeah. our prof was a huge phillip glass fan so I played him the aphex and phillip glass orchestration of icct hedral. He preferred the aphex version ;) Andrew xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx "GamePrg." <xxx@xxxxxx.xxxxx.xxx> wrote: >>i'm taking a class next semister at college entitled "electronic/computer >>music" but given the amount of stuff i learned from my college's graphics >>classes, i doubt i'll learn a thing. > >actually, I thought the same thing when I took the "Intro to >electronic/computer music" at my school, but I actually learned a hell of a >lot.. Though we were only allowed to use GM sounds and some sounds made by >the instructor (which one of them I loved..:) and of course, you can always >make some cool things with juno106 and have the knob data put in so that th= e >sound you made is configured at the start of the track. > >Even though the majority of sounds available were lame, that was one of the >best classes I've ever taken. You about the history of electronic music, as >in synthesizers.. and unlike what you may think, they are >electronica/idm/techno friendly (at least my teacher was).. and notable to >say that he also fell in love with Aphex Twin's Flim track :)