Wednesday, April 17, 2013
My NYU masters thesis is a drum programming tutorial system for beginner musicians. It uses a novel circular interface for displaying the drum patterns. This presentation explains the project’s goals, motivations and scholarly background. If you prefer, see it on Slideshare.
Also filed in Autobio, Interfaces, Music, Music Teaching, Software
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Tagged ableton, dance, drum machines, drumming, electronica, hip-hop, looping, midi, music notation, nyu, propellerhead, thesis, visualization
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
For those of you curious about what I’m up to in grad school, this is the big thing. Pardon the stilted language, but, you know, academia. See the slideshow! Title The Drum Loop: a Self-Guided Tutorial System for Programming Dance Rhythms Introduction Dance music production software has never been more accessible. However, even “beginner-oriented” programs [...]
Also filed in Autobio, Interfaces, Music, Music Teaching, Software, Video Games
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Tagged dance, design, drumming, hip-hop, interface, looping, nyu, programming, thesis, visualization
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Computers have revolutionized the composition, production and recording of music. However, they have not yet revolutionized music education. While a great deal of educational software exists, it mostly follows traditional teaching paradigms, offering ear training, flash cards and the like. Meanwhile, nearly all popular music is produced in part or in whole with software, yet [...]
Also filed in Interfaces, Music, Music Teaching, Software
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Tagged algorithmic composition, classical, Composition, computers, dance, dj, figure, garageband, guitar, Hardware, hip-hop, Improvisation, interfaces, ipad, keybs, logic, looping, midi, morton subotnick, Music, music teaching, nyu, pro tools, propellerhead, reason, skeuomorphism, Software, synths, visualization
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For my final project in Advanced Audio Production at NYU, I created a 5.1 surround remix of the Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun.” You can download it here. If you don’t have surround playback, you can listen to the stereo version: I was motivated to create a surround remix of a Beatles song by hearing [...]
Also filed in Composition, Copyright and Authorship, Music, Recording, Software
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Tagged ableton, beatles, danger mouse, dreaming, electronica, film theory, mixing, Music, nyu, paul geluso, pro tools, Recording, remixes, rock, surround sound, synths
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Check out this presentation I gave at the December 2012 Advanced Ableton User Meetup at Tekserve, hosted by Hank Shocklee of Public Enemy. I speak about how useful Ableton Live is as a music teaching tool, using Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” as an example. Very shortly after I concluded my talk, my wife went into labor [...]
Also filed in Autobio, Interfaces, Music, Music Teaching, Software
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Tagged ableton, gnarls barkley, hank shocklee, interfaces, midi, music teaching, visualization
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
From from Sagan’s highly-recommended 1977 book The Dragons Of Eden: There is a popular game, sometimes called Pong, which simulates on a television screen a perfectly elastic ball bouncing between two surfaces. Each player is given a dial that permits him to intercept the ball with a movable “racket”. Points are scored if the motion [...]
This past November, I had the privilege of performing in the fourth Disquiet Junto concert of 2012 in the apexart gallery.
Also filed in Autobio, Composition, Improvisation, Music, Software
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Tagged ableton, apexart, art, disquiet, harmonica, Improvisation, junto, marc weidenbaum, Music, retail
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Matthew D. Thibeault. Wisdom for Music Education From the Recording Studio. General Music Today, 20 October 2011. Stuart Wise, Janinka Greenwood and Niki Davis. Teachers’ Use of Digital Technology in Secondary Music Education: Illustrations of Changing Classrooms. British Journal of Music Education, Volume 28, Issue 2, July 2011, pp 117 - 134. Digital recording studios [...]
Also filed in Composition, Music, Music Teaching, Recording, Software
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Tagged brian eno, Composition, education, Improvisation, Music, music notation, music teaching, nyu, psychology, Recording, Sampling, school, teaching, technomusicology
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
On November 1st, I’ll be presenting strategies for using Ableton as a music teaching tool at the Ableton Advanced Users Meetup sponsored by Shocklee Interactive and Tekserve. The lineup also includes AfroDJMac, Brian Jackson, Ben Casey, Thomas Piper, DVS and DJ Juice E. Be there!
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Big question! First, a little philosophical throat-clearing: I don’t believe that modern/contemporary art is as radical a break with the past as it likes to think. I had an art professor in college argue that, really, all abstract art is representational, and all representational art is abstract. Any abstract art has to refer to particular [...]