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MUSI295a - Assignment 1: Musique concrete & Soundscapes No Comments

DISCLAIMER: No cows were hurt during the making of this assignment.

It’s that time of the week: the assignments are due and I’m done with my composition. This week’s feature: cow sounds! :D. To those back home, you all know why they’re featured. To those who don’t, expect a follow-up “Life” blog.

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Add first comment! | Date Posted: September 29, 2008 - 6:01 AM

Instrumental soundscape No Comments

In my desire to not be one of the few here left out when instrument playing is mentioned (and due in no small part to my sudden desire to take MUSI295a), I just bought an electronic keyboard to plug into my computer. After hours of research, I settled on the E-MU Xboard 49, described here http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/e-mu-xboard/sep-05/13060 and pictured at the end of this post.

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Add first comment! | Date Posted: September 22, 2008 - 11:15 AM

Raison d’être No Comments

Okay - so we have to keep a blog for the Intro to Electronic Music class. Apparently my brain translated that into “Start a general purpose blog, Ionut! It’s high time you had one!”.

Slave to my own brain that I am, I said “why not?” and started on this. Actually, I got started on a much bigger back-end & design, but it just won’t be ready in useful time for the MUSI295a class (from now on, the Intro to Electronic Music class will be called by any shortening I feel like using at the time), and has already made me extremely late in starting the actual manageable blog.

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Add first comment! | Date Posted: September 16, 2008 - 9:19 PM