“I feel like a mechanic.” (Said in reference to taking different pieces of a song and figuring out how to fit them together into a remix.)

“I’m pretty proud of myself – I always wanted to make my own drum kit.”

“This remix project is great; it makes us practice everything we know.”

“This class saves me from trouble.”

Hey its April 26. My name is Josh and today I used a new trick I learned from Henry using the flex option in Logic. It allows me to chop up sounds almost perfectly. The purpose of this was to create my own drum kit off of the free sounds off the song O.N.E. by a band. Today I felt accomplished and more professional since I had a goal of remixing a song and using things I learned to do so. I chopped up the samples and made my own drum loops in 3 with a meter of 4. Please listen =).

– Josh

Josh Loop
[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Josh-Loop.mp3|titles=Josh Loop ]

So today we cut stems from samples and made our own remixes, using different kick drums, basses, snares and all types of other sounds. My piece is still in the works but I’ll post it soon so you can listen.

– Jeffry

Here’s the remix competition we’re working on Yeasayer Remix Contest

Today in Media Lab Henry showed us how to sample from stems from samples so we tried remixing stuff. Basically what I did today was get a stem from a sample and then after that I played the instrument over it.

The intro to my remix sounds kind of atmospheric and nonrythmic. It is still a work in progress since I only finished the intro.

– Paul

Today we got tripods! It was a little scary – we didn’t want to break anything. We tried out tilting and panning with the cameras on the tripods. We learned that every movement has a knob or turny part to tighten or loosen the movement.

Then we got on the computers and we took our videos from last week and we put them into iMovie and started making mini experimental films.

“It was very fun.” – Dante
“Editing is hard.” – Elvis
“I’m looking forward to making different types of videos.”
“I like using the tripod.” – Malachy
“Editing was hard but fun.” – Jessica

The first thing we did today was learn the controls of the camera. Then we saw a projection of things we could do with a video. We learned about tilting and panning (up and down and swiveling). Then we went outside to take some practice videos and photos. We went inside, learned how to upload the videos and pictures we took, and saw our favorite videos.

“It was a good day.” – Elvis
“Today was my first day and it’s good so far.” – Dante
“Cameras rule!” – Nate
“I liked going outside and taking videos.” – Malachy
“I liked watching the videos Anne showed us because I learned a lot.” – Kirby

Today in Media Lab I picked up where I left off last week with the project I was working on. Originally I just had a steady bass going on in the back ground. After today I decided I just wanted to solo over it with my instrument. It took me a while to find something that would sound good over the bass part I had. Finally I figured out that strings sounded pretty good with it so I used that to solo and recorded it.

This project is still in progress though – I still think I need to add more stuff to it.

Here’s where I am now:

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/paul_4-19-10.mp3|titles=paul_4-19-10 ]

– Paul

Today in Media Lab I created a track that is based on one of the variations of the CMW song. Also, I’ve added a section that is dark and slow. Then at the end I again put something based on one of the CMW song variations.

Listen here:

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/karl_4-19-10.mp3|titles=Karl O ]

– Karl

working!