Spaziani MUE332

  Screencastify  Allows you to record your screen and capture video at the same time.  For the asynchronous video  Write a script Clear desktop of extraneous applications and icons Filmsound.org  Large resource for film music and sound design Foley  Creating sound effects for film  Disney  Used musical percussion for sound effects  Created  Process of planning for sound effects Choosing spots that need sound effects Sound effects and design also in Live theater  Miss Saigon  And the marching arts Sounddogs.com - website for sound effects and music  Foley Video This video took me back to learning video editing in middle school. Musicians should learn to do these basic things in an editing software so they can record and share their performances without needing to pay someone else to do it. The foley activity would be a lot of fun for students. I think theres a lot of really interesting and creative potential for creating ...

This was a pretty fun project to complete. I decided to go into the WCU CMT studio and try to record vocals with an actual microphone. I used a Warm Audio condenser microphone with a pop filter. I had to figure out how to set the USB audio interface correctly because there were some dB settings I had to fiddle with. I ended up needing to click in the switch labeled +48V. After some research, I found out that this switch allows for phantom power meaning the microphone needs a source of electricity to work properly.  I feel more comfortable inputting drum beats and bass lines with vintage synths, but I'm grateful for the accessibility that has been programmed into newer technology. I played around with the tones of the synths to get something I thought sounded pretty cool. I made the bass line a square wave instead of a saw wave and changed the resonance tuner. The square wave had a smoother sound and the resonance tuner changed the tonal character.  Once in Soundtrap things wer...

Disco Popular form of music in the 70s  Saturday Night Fever Disco Demolition Night in Chicago considered end of Disco  Punk began to rise  Stripped down (no strings  Simple, raw, unproduced  Micheal Jackson  Almost all synthesized  Salt n pepa  Run DMC  Beat box evolution Drum machines Drum machines or beat boxes are “played” or programmed  Small trigger pads are sometimes present  Real-time or step entry Drum sounds are loaded into groups or “kits” Digital Drums  Drumsets are reproductions of acoustic drumsets in manner of performance Percussion controllers include mallet like or hand percussion models Trigger pads come in various materials configurations Have become a substitute for the many instruments a percussionist could be expected to play in a single performance History Drum machines  Rhythmicon  Worlds first electronics drum or rhythm machine Created by Leon Theremin  Ace Tone Rhythm Ace Early dum bea...