The Halls are alive...

So we haven't really spent much time messing around with the music software in class yet, but I am really excited based off the little bit of messing around I have done in Garageband and Audacity. I have played with Audacity before, but only really to do clippings of longer songs. The effects there look really cool, although it sounds like the best effects are in SoundHack.

I am most looking forward to playing around with the beat composer and sequencer aspects of garageband. I haven't been as involved with music as I was as a kid and in high school, so I can't wait to start actually putting things together and making music again. I especially think it will be fun to make some more dance-like beat heavy songs, kind of like the beats we are making for our first assignment, which I think will actually be easy enough and hopefully good enough to actually listen to.

Method and Execution

I really like one thing that Professor Burtner was talking about in class this week: the dual aspects of the history of electronic music. I think its really cool studying the history of "technosonics" by describing it as being composed of these two seperate histories that interact and influence each other, pushing each other further and further with each innovation and invention.