tell him he's too late -- the people who were fascinated with this
stuff in their youth when most people were busy dreaming of firetrucks
have been composing since then, having come to the correct conclusion
much earlier than him, and so have better technique by now. it would
be pointless to compete with this unless he's got the drive and the
passion to self motivate enough to teach himself. any teacher that has
to judge the relative merits of 150 undergrad IDM fanboys' demos
(shudder) will know in an instant that this guy is just trying to hack
something together to get in the class, rather than demonstrating long
hours of hard work and creative efforts.
it can be done but imho it's unlikely given that his first impulse was
to ask teh internot for help rather than DOING IT.
yes, i'm a jerk -- feel free to address that in a seperate thread.
On 12/6/05, StaticBeats <stupidnametaken@yahoo.com> wrote:
quoted 55 lines Hey all, my younger brother posted this to the Forum> 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
> --
> ~Elan
>
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