Welcome to the Digital Sounds Course
In Comm 2215 at ECU 345 we will explore the
basics of digital audio and music creation.
Our main tools for the semester will be
Audacity and Garage Band/ACID Music. We will create audio commercials,
documentaries, and soundtracks for video creations. In
addition we will explore other software such as Mixcraft and midi music
creation tools like Band-In-A-Box.
You will work in groups and as indiviuals.
Assignments
For now
go here for assignments and course
questions.
Grades
Short
projects
100 points
Final
project
100 points
Exams (2)
100 points
Books
Purchase book:
Real
World Digital Audio: Industrial Strength Production Techniques
by Peter Kern, 2006, Peachpit Press
ISBN-10: 0321304608
ISBN-13: 9780321304605
Download
book:
Digital Media
Primer
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Quotables
Aaron
Copland
The whole
problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to
music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words
what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
Duke
Ellington
"I merely took
the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."
Elvis
Presley
"I don't know
anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Groucho
Marx
"Military
justice is to justice what military music is to music."
JimmyDurante
"I hate music,
especially when it's played."
Woody
Allen
"I can't
listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer
Poland."
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