Today’s Musical Forecast: Warm and Sunny!

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."

- Plato -

Music  (myū'zĭk) - noun; The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.

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Today’s plan

• Music Enjoyment, Discovery and Sharing

• Music Creation, Collaboration and Promotion

• Music’s Future? Does the industry have a strangle hold on music?

• Show and tell and some tricks of the trade

Music Enjoyment, Discovery, and Sharing

• Do you enjoy music? If so, why?

• Do you find new music? If so, how?

• Do you share what you find? If so, why?

Enjoyment, Discovery, and Sharing

and others

Playlists, peer-to-peer file sharing, Podcasting, PhoneCasting

http://muxtape.com/

Wii Music

Some free music creation applications

http://freemusicsoftware.org/

Just a few music creation applications that are not free.

Online Music Collaboration

Music Promotion and Distribution

Does the recording industry have a strangle hold on music creation

with DRM (i.e., controlling distribution)?

Does music have a future?

Yes! Music has a future

Music creators are taking back control!

Music is becoming more fragmented (i.e., many sub-genres = more interesting)

Show and Tell

Some Technical Ideas and Tricks of the Trade

• Be original!

• Have fun!

• Create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and use VNC to compose from anywhere. – Hamachi: https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp?lang=en

– Tight VNC: http://www.tightvnc.com/

• Contact me anytime for more ideas.

Reactable – an instrument that combines the features of a

modular synthesizer with a multi-touch tangible user interface.

Subatomic Pop – an electronic symphony

Recruitment

St. Petersburg College is working on offering new music production courses:

– Acoustics and Psychoacoustics – Music Technology and Recording Techniques

( 4 courses with labs)

Select Resources

Other Resources• NAMM Music Technology 2008 Report

• Gerd Leonhard’s Blog

• Use wget to automatically download new music. (Thanks to “Upgrade Your Life” by Gina Trapani)

• Top 20 Online Music Stores: http://music-stores.nettop20.com/

Comments/Questions?

Chad Mairn, M.L.I.S.St. Petersburg College e-mail: mairn.chad@spcollege.edu  office: (727) 341.7181

chadmairn@gmail.com

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