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.
Filed in Autobio, Interfaces, Music, Music Teaching, Software
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Also tagged ableton, dance, drum machines, drumming, electronica, hip-hop, looping, midi, music notation, propellerhead, thesis, visualization
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This is part of a research project I’m doing for my Psychology of Music class at NYU, thus the formal tone. The backbeat is a ubiquitous, almost defining feature of American popular and vernacular music. Clapping or snapping on the backbeats is generally considered by musicians to be more correct than doing so on the [...]
Filed in Dance, Music, Race and Identity, Science
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Also tagged africa, america, backbeat, dance, drumming, funk, hip-hop, james brown, jazz, neuroscience, race, rhythm, rock, swing, syncopation
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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 [...]
Filed in Autobio, Interfaces, Music, Music Teaching, Software, Video Games
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Also tagged dance, design, drumming, hip-hop, interface, looping, 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 [...]
Filed in Interfaces, Music, Music Teaching, Software, Technology
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Also 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, 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 [...]
Filed in Composition, Copyright and Authorship, Music, Recording, Software
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Also tagged ableton, beatles, danger mouse, dreaming, electronica, film theory, mixing, Music, paul geluso, pro tools, Recording, remixes, rock, surround sound, synths
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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 [...]
Filed in Composition, Music, Music Teaching, Recording, Software
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Also tagged brian eno, Composition, education, Improvisation, Music, music notation, music teaching, psychology, Recording, Sampling, school, teaching, technomusicology
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
For Paul Geluso’s Advanced Audio Production midterm, we were assigned to choose two tracks from his recommended listening list, and compare and contrast them sonically. I chose “Regiment” by David Byrne and Brian Eno, and “Little Fluffy Clouds” by The Orb. Recorded ten years apart using very different technology, both tracks nevertheless share a similar [...]
Filed in Copyright and Authorship, Key Musicians, Music, Recording, Sampling
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Also tagged brian eno, dance, david byrne, digging the crates, eighties, electronica, funk, mixing, Music, nineties, paul geluso, production, Recording, Sampling, synths, the orb
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The most fun Music Technology class I’m taking this semester is Advanced Audio Production with Paul Geluso. A major component of the class is learning how to listen analytically, and to that end, we were assigned to pick a song and do an exhaustive study of its sonic qualities. We used methods from William Moylan’s [...]
Filed in Composition, Music, Recording
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Also tagged ableton, analysis, attention, big boi, funk, hip-hop, janelle monae, melodyne, michael jackson, Music Theory, omnigraffle, paul geluso, production, r&b, Recording, visualization
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Update: see a more formal draft of my thesis proposal. For my NYU masters thesis in Music Technology, I’m designing a beginner-oriented music learning app for the iPad and similar devices. It will approach music the way I wish I had been taught it, and the way I’ve been teaching it to my private students. [...]
Filed in Composition, Interfaces, Music, Music Teaching, Software
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Also tagged dance, drumming, electronica, fun, linkedin, music teaching, rhythm, sequencing, thesis
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For my grad school thesis, I’m designing an intro-level music education app. I’m operating within the techno/hip-hop paradigm, with an Afrocentric rhythm-oriented approach. Electronic dance music production software had brought me much joy over the years, joy that I’m eager to spread to more people. I firmly believe that everyone is a potential musician, and [...]
Filed in Hardware, Interfaces, Software, Video Games
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Also tagged accordion, brian eno, drumming, haptic feedback, interfaces, keybs, linkedin, midi, moog, morton subotnick, music notation, Video Games, visualization, xenakis
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