Yeah, this is University of California Santa Cruz.
I didn't know they offered anything so cool either :)
Shimone/Justes
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--- no reserve <speechless1974@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 79 lines Which university is this? U of CA Santa Cruz?? Just
> Which university is this? U of CA Santa Cruz?? Just
> curious, they didn't
> offer anything so cool where I went to school (U of
> VA).
>
> On 12/6/05, StaticBeats <stupidnametaken@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hey all, my younger brother posted this to the
> Forum
> > on StaticBeats. I'm not much a music maker so I
> don't
> > know where to direct him. I know there are forums
> out
> > there and discussion lists where these type of
> answers
> > exist. Any insight or help you can offer is
> > appreciated. See below.
> >
> > I'm at the tail end of my first quarter at UCSC,
> and
> > yesterday I took my final in my favorite course of
> the
> > quarter: "History of Electronic Music."
> >
> > I'm sure my brother knows how much I enjoyed the
> > course, because I called him after almost every
> > session to tell him what cool stuff I learned.
> >
> > My experience in that class helped me decide that
> I
> > wanted to take my knowledge of music deeper (I
> play
> > guitar...)
> >
> > So I've decided to minor in electronic music...
> Very
> > Happy
> >
> > Hopefully the courses provided through UCSC will
> be
> > good, but I have a feeling they will be because
> most
> > of the professors in the department were deeply
> > involved in the startup companies (E-Mu
> specifically)
> > and knew Bob Moog personally, and some even knew
> Leon
> > Theremin!! (Some of these dudes are pretty old.)
> >
> > To cut a long story short, I cannot proceed with
> my
> > studies of electronic music until next year,
> because
> > the program excludes freshmen. To increase my
> chances
> > of getting into the program (25 are allowed out of
> the
> > 150 or so that apply yearly) I need to compose a
> few
> > tracks of my own.
> >
> > However, in the class, we only got tutorials on
> > expensive software, and I still seem to have
> trouble
> > getting the sounds I want from the program I'm
> using
> > currently (Re-birth, though I hope to upgrade to
> > Reason sometime soon...)
> >
> > So if any of you can give me some tips on
> composition,
> > or just want to talk about the history of this
> genre,
> > write back
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > ~Elanquoted 1 line
>
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