I took this class a few years back w/ the aparently unintentional course #
of MUS 303. We basically used decade-plus old equipment to make our
tracks. All we had in the studio to work with was a mini-moog, yamaha
dx-7, a mic, some basic fx processor, 4track and 2 track reel-to-reel
decks... all connected via a ghetto-style patch bay. At first I was really
disappointed with what we had to work with to make our projects... it was
old skool for sure. no midi. tape loops the old fashioned way: cut &
splice the tape and hang it on mic stands and whatnot to keep it snug while
looping through the reel to reel deck. As I look back on it, i'm so glad
we used only these elements to make our music. that grassroots approach
was pretty refreshing. musique concréte techniques galore.
oh yeah. our prof was a huge phillip glass fan so I played him the aphex
and phillip glass orchestration of icct hedral. He preferred the aphex
version ;)
Andrew
larsonaj@muohio.edu
"GamePrg." <aeq@access.digex.net> wrote:
quoted 16 lines i'm taking a class next semister at college entitled "electronic/computer>>i'm taking a class next semister at college entitled "electronic/computer
>>music" but given the amount of stuff i learned from my college's graphics
>>classes, i doubt i'll learn a thing.
>
>actually, I thought the same thing when I took the "Intro to
>electronic/computer music" at my school, but I actually learned a hell of a
>lot.. Though we were only allowed to use GM sounds and some sounds made by
>the instructor (which one of them I loved..:) and of course, you can always
>make some cool things with juno106 and have the knob data put in so that the
>sound you made is configured at the start of the track.
>
>Even though the majority of sounds available were lame, that was one of the
>best classes I've ever taken. You about the history of electronic music, as
>in synthesizers.. and unlike what you may think, they are
>electronica/idm/techno friendly (at least my teacher was).. and notable to
>say that he also fell in love with Aphex Twin's Flim track :)