Week Four

This week in Music Technology we tried to create a beat using Logic. Sounds easy enough, right? Well it is not especially when you are as picky as me. I have never been one for a techno beat or synthesized instruments, I much rather prefer the basics such as the piano, drums, and guitar. Therefore, this assignment was a little tricky because on Logic the basic instruments like piano do not sound good they sound "techky." So I had to open my mind and move to the synthesized instruments, which at first was not very fun but I eventually got into it and made a beat. Also, another thing to remember is that a beat is just a beat it does not have to be perfect it can be wherever your musical mind takes you.

Week 3

This is week three of Music Technology, and this week we focused on recording audio. We read last weeks blogs and recorded it in Logic Pro X. It sounds easy but it is not you have to go to the settings and choose the device your using to record and when you do not know what your doing it can be quite difficult. Needless to say though I figured it out. We also figured out that the iMacs built in microphones are not the best so we need to be in a sound proof room and use a plug in mic to get the best quality. Furthermore, this week we had to save all of our work to the hard drive, because how many times have we lost work we have forgotten to save. It is hard learning how to save things on a Mac because throughout my whole life I used a dell, therefore it can be challenging learning the ropes. Lastly, we worked on making some of the incentives such as sticky notes for our awesome donors. We still have much to do incentive wise but I am sure we will crank it out. It has been another interesting week in Music Technology and I look forward to many more.

Week One

This is week two of music technology and so far things are going great! Coming back to school I had forgotten that we would have to send out incentives for all of our fabulous donors who contributed through Kick Starter. (For those of you who are confused go to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/musicandmedia/chromatic-building-a-media-lab-for-art-music-and-a?ref=live. Here you will be able to see how we were able to have this class.) Needless to say we have a lot to do, we need to get a plaque made, tie dye 24 t-shirts, make inphographics, and create lots of sticky notes. But the technology and all the fun gadgets are so worth the hard work. We have iMacs installed with logic and adobe final cut pro, and headphone jacks, new headphones, and keyboards that plug into the macs.
We first are started out experimenting with Logic which is similar to garage band but Logic has more instruments and more things you can do. Going through all the sounds was awesome because some were really cool and others were very out there. But I am pumped to start making music. Right now we are focused on the instrument portion of the music but we are soon going to move onto audio.
Now that you know a little about the class and how we got here this year I hope to learn more about composing the instrumental part of music. I have always been a singer and I love to write my own songs but it's not really my own song if someone else writes the instrumental. Therefore, this year I hope to create my own songs. Also, I need to become more tech savy because I never know what to do with technology, which is sad considering I am a teenager and the time is all about technology.