Remix Assessment - Post 5
August 23-25th I am noticing that the difficult thing about this task is ensuring that the sound design wasn’t just becoming too complex...
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OLIVIA MCNAMARA
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Remix Assessment - Post 4
August 19th-22nd 2022 Version 3.0: After revisiting version 2.0, to be honest I just wanted to do something even heavier. The sample...
Remix Assessment - Post 3
15th+ 16th August 2022 DRAFT 2.0 was submitted & feedback received in class on August 16th. I received positive feedback – the main area...
Remix Assessment - Post 2
August 13th 2022 Version 2.0: As Version 1.0 wasn't really working, I went for a slightly heavier synthwave vibe this time round. I...
Remix Assessment Post 1
August 12th, 2022 Version 1.0: I started experimenting and went for a jazzy, funky nu-disco/filtered house vibe. I wrote a chord...
FINAL WORDS: Technology in Music Education 2021
Wow! This semester is over! This has been my one of my favourite Music Ed units so far in my 1.5 years of uni! There was so much to learn...
TECH PROJECT Log 8: Reflections after the performance
It was such a nerve-wracking day, I was so so nervous particularly about forgetting my lyrics, or making a mistake, or my computer...
TECH PROJECT Log 6
Saturday 19th June Well... I woke up and decided to have a practise of my performance in the morning and Ableton keeps crashing!! Uh oh!!...
TECH PROJECT Log 5
This is the configuration on my LaunchPad Pro in Session mode. I thought I would use Note Mode more, however this is convenient as...
TECH PROJECT Log 4
So yes, of course I started writing another idea!! I really really liked my draft 5 in particular but something was missing from it...?...
TECH PROJECT Log 3
Okay... yes I keep making more and more ideas!! I'm a bit undecided. I made two more, I spent even more time on each one of these. I'm...
TECH PROJECT Log 2
Over the past week I've been working on more random musical ideas that could potentially work. I really want to perform an original song...
TECH PROJECT Log 1
So, the first thing I did, in order to begin my project was to practise looping using my Launchpad and Launchkey. I watched countless...
GTD (Week 13... final week!)
This is our final week!!! This lesson was a pretty chill lesson. We were given the first hour to work on our Tech projects. I spent my...
THE LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (Week 12)
This week we had Brad Fuller take our class. He discussed the importance of having a fully functioning LMS (Learning Management System) -...
BYOD AND ONLINE LEARNING (Week 11)
In Week 10 we did not have class as it was Special Projects Week, so in Week 11 we discussed BYOD/online learning. This means to "Bring...
ELEVATOR PITCHES AND OTHER STUFF (Week 9)
In the Seminar we discussed our elevator pitches!! We went around the class discussing what we will be doing for our projects. I have...
ABLETON, REMIXING AND THE DAW-LESS STUDIO (Week 8) - 26/4/21
Our class did Ableton Live stuff this week!! Ableton is my THIIINGG so I felt very much in my element this week!! The first half of the...
SYNTHESIS (Week 7) - 19/4/21
This week in Tech we learnt about S Y N T H E S I S !! I loooooove synthesis, I’ve always found it so fascinating learning and...
PROGRAMMING AND CODING (Week 6) - 12/4/21
Week Six was quite an interesting week in Tech class! Rowena Stewart and Renee Noble came in to teach us about programming and coding....
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