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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