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Intermediate Electronic Music Presentations
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Final Project
During the final two weeks of the term, each Intermediate Electronic Music student will give a 10 minute presentation to the class or a topic of personal interest that is related to electronic music. (See schedule below.)
NOTE: As described below, this assignment has two parts.
- The first part is writing and submitting a Presentation Proposal Form by the deadline announced on the web site and/or in class.
- The second part is your actual presentation to the class.
Read the rest of this page in order to understand requirements and details of both components of the assignment.
Schedule
See current schedule below on this page.
Topics
As long as you can convince me that your topic is relevant to this course it will be acceptable for a presentation. During previous quarters students have presented topics such as the following.
- Composers and musicians who are known for their use of electronic music technologies.
- History of electronic music, including the development and use of instruments and other technologies.
- Musical styles/genres use of electronic music technologies.
- Technical subjects such as design of hardware software. (Presented for a lay audience!)
- Comparative reviews of hardware and software products.
- The use of music/audio in film.
- Selecting equipment for specific types of use.
- Demonstrations of hardware/software tools.
- Research into related careers.
This list is not complete and you may propose topics different from those listed above.
Format
You are allowed to present a traditional "talking-head" presentation, but you are strongly encouraged to consider alternatives that engage the class, incorporate multi-media, and so on. You will have a total of 10 minutes for your presentation.
Support materials
If appropriate, you are encouraged to provide supplemental material in printed form or on a web site. (You may be able to use the class web site for this purpose - contact me for more information.)
Project proposals
25% of your grade for this assignment will be awarded for providing a credible Presentation Proposal Form by the deadline. You may receive no credit on this portion of the project grade if you do not submit your proposal on time. In addition, those who submit proposals after the deadline will be scheduled to present their proposals first.
I must give final approval of your project proposal. After I read your proposal I may:
- approve it as submitted.
- approve it as submitted, but suggest changes/additions.
- approve the topic but not the manner of presentation. In this case I will advise you on the types of changes that will be required.
- disapprove of the topic. In this case I will explain my reasons and offer some alternative suggestions.
If your proposal is not approved as submitted, you will be asked to submit revisions for approval within the week.
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SpringEquipment available in the classroom for use by all presenters.
- Mac computer running MS: office inc. Powerpoint
- Keyboard and audio; USB/MIDI to Mac
- Logic, Reason, Protools LE, Garage Band, Sibelius
- DVD, VHS playback
- Computer playback of .mp3, .aiff, .mov, .qt files.
- Projector for above. Laptops can connect if you have adapter.
- Audio can connect if you can accept a 1/4” or 1/8” stereo plug.
Thursday, March 13
- Daro Gross - Scoring music, etc. for film and visual media
- Juan Gutierrez - Roland MV-8800 Production Studio. (revise)
- Mike Black - Korg Wavestation demo - detailed outline of preso missing - resubmit
- Sean Sullivan - Porcupine Tree and use of a Logic setup to record
- Thanlan Phamvu and Shahin Jafari FL Studio software demo
- Michael Hey Traktor software demo
- Marlon Datu - Vocal editing software and equipment. Fine, but may be too much for 10 minutes.
Tuesday, March 18
- David Marshall - Pink Floyd and their equipment
- Prashant Saraswat - Theremin history (revision)
- Jaypee Inguito The $500 recording/production studio
- Jake Kreis - Designing a home setup
- Daniel Belknap Trance genre (see Milan)
- Milan Jurkovic Development of trance music - an artist OR Music and TV?
- Adam Spohrer Drum n' bass music, history, etc
Thursday, March 20
- Sam Molmud - Brian Eno's effect on EM (avoid "artist bio" presentation)
- Brennan Facchino - Sampling in hip hop. Need presentation outline - resubmit
- Olga Sheykhet - Music festival (respond to questions about relationship to this class.)
- Daniel Varela - MPC 2000 XL Sampler - need presentation outline - Resubmit
- David Arnold - Use of electronic sound in instrumental performance
- Brendan Ambrosini - producers/composers/mixers/DJs - Revise and resubmit
- Andrew Llavore - techniques used in hip hop and rock - Narrow the scope...
- Mark Tumney -
Intermediate Electronic Music Assignments:
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6 |
6a |
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Presentation |
Final Project
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