The document summarizes a jam session meetup for electronic musicians that took place in May. It provides information on the next meetup in July, introduces various musicians and their works or performances, and shares details about music production tools and websites. Mixwidget is highlighted as a cool music player tool, and Jerry Gerber discusses electronic orchestration concepts from a book on orchestration.

1. JUNE 2010

2. JUNE 2010 Jam Session #2 in May rocked! Next meetup: Hot Spot bar, July 7 Introductions! Cool toy: Mixwidget.org Jerry– New electronic orchestra + Q&A J.B.Vries– “Creepin’ In ft. Goldie” Keller McKay– iPad/Bebot/Sounddrop thing Eric Odland– “What You Do To Me” Ed

3. MIXWIDGET.ORG Mixtape player Customizable

4. MIXWIDGET.ORG Mixtape player Customizable

5. MIXWIDGET.ORG Mixtape player Customizable See Rekz’ usage at:http://rekzkarz.blogspot.com

6. MIXWIDGET.ORG Mixtape player Customizable See Rekz’ usage at:http://rekzkarz.blogspot.com

7. JERRY GERBER Composed for film, games, TV, concerts, dance Electronic symphonies SONAR DAW, uses VSTs like Massive and Gigastudio for symphonic samples http://www.jerrygerber.com

8. JERRY GERBER Source: From Walter Piston's book on Orchestration

9. JERRY GERBER Orchestral Unison Single instrument to entire orchestral tutti Octave duplications considered unison Melody and Accompaniment Melody sometimes has more orchestral weight Accompaniment can consist of several instruments Source: From Walter Piston's book on Orchestration

10. JERRY GERBER Melody and Accompaniment (cont’d) Some possible accompaniment textures: Ostinatos and repeating figures Chords Pedal points Specific melodic notes extracted (heterophony) Arpeggiated chord outlines Source: From Walter Piston's book on Orchestration

11. JERRY GERBER Secondary Melody This is two-part counterpoint with accompaniment Choral Texture Mid-way between chords and counterpoint Utilizes non-harmonic tones Polyphonic Texture Contrapuntal texture with no non-polyphonic accompaniments Source: From Walter Piston's book on Orchestration

12. JERRY GERBER Chords The entire orchestra, or parts of it, moving in chords Complex Texture Any combination of previously mentioned textures Source: From Walter Piston's book on Orchestration

13. JERRY GERBER

14. J.B.VRIES “My songwriting process is very similar to any other instrument but with a twist of about 65% songwriting 20% coding process and 15 experimentation process.”

15. J.B.VRIES Creepin’ In ft. Goldie “… I was actually working with a Phillip Glass classical music piece in my project trying to learn from his note progressions and the main melody from Creepin' In was the result.” http://www.facebook.com/JBVfans

16. KELLER http://www.kellermedlin.com

17. MCKAY McKay’s demo http://www.mckaygarner.com

18. ERIC ODLAND DAW = Reaper Plugins: Automat, TAL instruments, CheeseMachine, VOPM, Orca Vocal fx = Csound Other stuff = MIDI keyboard, bass guitar

19. ED Piano w/ effects, WAV edited by hand

20. NEXT MEETUP Next meetup: July 7 at Hot Spot Bar1414 Market St. (at Fell St.) Notes on the SF-EMM.org website Next jam session = ??? ~ Thank you! ~ http://www.SF-EMM.org