Today’s Musical Forecast: Warm and Sunny!

" Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything ." - Plato -

" Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything ." - Plato -

Music (myū ' zĭk) - noun; The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. Source:

Today’s plan Music Enjoyment, Discovery and Sharing Music Creation, Collaboration and Promotion Music’s Future? Does the industry have a strangle hold on music? Show and tell and some tricks of the trade

Music Enjoyment, Discovery and Sharing

Music Creation, Collaboration and Promotion

Music’s Future? Does the industry have a strangle hold on music?

Show and tell and some tricks of the trade

Music Enjoyment, Discovery, and Sharing Do you enjoy music? If so, why? Do you find new music? If so, how? Do you share what you find? If so, why?

Do you enjoy music? If so, why?

Do you find new music? If so, how?

Do you share what you find? If so, why?

Enjoyment, Discovery, and Sharing and others Playlists, peer-to-peer file sharing, Podcasting, PhoneCasting http://muxtape.com/

and others

Playlists, peer-to-peer file sharing, Podcasting, PhoneCasting

Wii Music

Some free music creation applications http://freemusicsoftware.org/

Just a few music creation applications that are not free.

Online Music Collaboration

Music Promotion and Distribution

Does the recording industry have a strangle hold on music creation with DRM (i.e., controlling distribution)? Does music have a future?

Does the recording industry have a strangle hold on music creation with DRM (i.e., controlling distribution)?

Does music have a future?

Yes! Music has a future Music creators are taking back control! Music is becoming more fragmented (i.e., many sub-genres = more interesting)

Music creators are taking back control!

Music is becoming more fragmented (i.e., many sub-genres = more interesting)

Show and Tell

Some Technical Ideas and Tricks of the Trade Be original! Have fun! Create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and use VNC to compose from anywhere. Hamachi: https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp?lang=en Tight VNC: http://www.tightvnc.com/ Contact me anytime for more ideas.

Be original!

Have fun!

Create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and use VNC to compose from anywhere.

Hamachi: https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp?lang=en

Tight VNC: http://www.tightvnc.com/

Contact me anytime for more ideas.

Reactable – an instrument that combines the features of a modular synthesizer with a multi-touch tangible user interface.

Subatomic Pop – an electronic symphony

Recruitment St. Petersburg College is working on offering new music production courses: Acoustics and Psychoacoustics Music Technology and Recording Techniques ( 4 courses with labs)

St. Petersburg College is working on offering new music production courses:

Acoustics and Psychoacoustics

Music Technology and Recording Techniques ( 4 courses with labs)

Select Resources

Other Resources NAMM Music Technology 2008 Report Gerd Leonhard’s Blog Use wget to automatically download new music. (Thanks to “Upgrade Your Life” by Gina Trapani) Top 20 Online Music Stores: http://music-stores.nettop20.com/

NAMM Music Technology 2008 Report

Gerd Leonhard’s Blog

Use wget to automatically download new music. (Thanks to “Upgrade Your Life” by Gina Trapani)

Top 20 Online Music Stores: http://music-stores.nettop20.com/

Comments/Questions? Chad Mairn, M.L.I.S. St. Petersburg College  e-mail: mairn.chad@spcollege.edu  office: (727) 341.7181 [email_address] This presentation is available at: http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn