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.