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This is my main De Anza College web site. My Intro to Music and Electronic Music class resources are hosted on their own web sites - visit those sites for information that is specific to those classes.

Spring 2008 Term
Winter 2008 classes began on Monday, April 7. Visit the De Anza College web site to find out more about admissions and registration.

Summer 2008 term begins in July, with registration beginning before that. Watch the De Anza College web site for information.

For more information about courses I teach, visit the web sites for my Intro to Music and Electronic Music classes. Send me email if you have questions - see the Contact Info section lower in the sidebar.

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	FALL 2008 ELECTRONIC MUSIC CLASSES. The fall 2008 term begins soon at De Anza College - and now is the time to begin taking care of your admissions and registration if you want to enroll. You can do all of this online at the De Anza College web site. Electronic Music Classes for Fall 2008 (8/28/08 note: Judging from enrollment trends near the end of August, it seems possible that the two Intro to Electronic Music - Music 51 classes may fill by the start of the term - although there are still spaces available in both sections as I write this. If they do fill consider enrolling in Intermediate Electronic Music - Music 8 if you have some background with electronic music software and hardware. Email me if you have questions: Dan Mitchell at mitchelldan@deanza.edu) The De Anza College Music Department offers a two-course sequence of electronic music classes. The classes are open to all De Anza College students - no, you do not need to be a "music major" to take them. These classes are designed to get you up to speed with electronic music hardware and software including synths, drum machines, sampling, sound design and so forth. The focus is on learning general principles and techniques that you can apply in any style of music and on different platforms and products - and you'll do this largely by creating musical projects at one of the music workstations in our electronic music classroom. This fall we offer two sections of our Introduction to Electronic Music class and one section of our Intermediate Electronic Music class. Most students will want to start with the Intro class, though if you have some significant background you may be able to go straight into the Intermediate class. (Contact me by email for more information.) Introduction to Electronic Music - Music 51 Two sections are offered - sign up for either one: MW at 12:30-2:10, or Friday at 10:30-1:50 After spending the first week quickly getting up to speed using Garage Band (easy program, but there's more to it than you might think...) we move quickly to a professional audio environment, Logic Pro 8. Along the way you'll learn most basic techniques in this program, you'll create a number of small projects and one full end-of-term project, and you'll learn about different types of music that have been made using electronic media. Intermediate Electronic Music - Music 8 We offer one section of this course: TTh at 12:30-2:10 This course continues and builds upon the Intro course and focuses on sound design, sampling, and synthesis using the Reason application and the many powerful plugins found in Logic Pro. We integrate the two programs via ReWire as well. Questions? There is more information in both sidebars on this page, and you can also take a look at course resources posted on this web site. Email me if you want more information or if you have questions about either course: mitchelldan@deanza.edu. See you in September! Spring 2008 Course Grades Posted. I have posted final course grades for both the Music 8 and Music 51 classes. After logging in at the web site you should be able to see links to the two reports in the Resources section of the sidebar at the left side of the page. Have a great summer - and I'm looking forward to seeing many of your (and perhaps some of your friends!) in the fall 2008 electronic music classes! Open Lab Update - Thursday, June 26. The Electronic Music Lab will be open today (Thursday, June 26) for perhaps as long as about two hours starting around noon. Times are not precise since we are on the final exam schedule this week, but come at about that time if you want time for some last-minute work on your project. Source: Electronic Music; Updated: 4:37PM PST.

	Kurt Vonnegut "Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative." [Quotes of the Day] - G Dan Mitchell (noreply@blogger.com) George Carlin "Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?" [Quotes of the Day] - G Dan Mitchell (noreply@blogger.com) Samuel Johnson "There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good." [Quotes of the Day] - G Dan Mitchell (noreply@blogger.com) Source: The Quote File; Updated: 6:43AM PST.