All Parts: Bonnie Woodgreens copy 4

Solo Part: Bonnie Woodgreens Lyrids 2

Rehearsal Recording: Bonnie Woodgreens RR Lyrids

Slow Rehearsal Recording: Bonnie Woodgreens Slow RR Lyrids

 

This fall’s electronic music class is off to a great start! We’re using Logic to remix Bach cello suites for the upcoming Bach Festival.

Final remixes will be posted in a few weeks! Stay tuned.

All Parts: White Christmas score ’12

Slow Rehearsal Recording: Slow White Christmas ’12 RR Lyrids

Rehearsal Recording: White Christmas ’12 RR Lyrids

Single Part: Single Part White Christmas ’12 Lyrids

Single Part: Single Part Believe from Polar Express Lyrids

Rehearsal Recording: Believe from Polar Express RR Lyrids

Slow Rehearsal Recording: Slow Believe from Polar Express RR Lyrids

All Parts: Believe from Polar Express 2

All Parts: O Holy Night 1

Slow Rehearsal Recording: Slow O Holy Night RR Lyrids 2

Rehearsal Recording: O Holy Night RR Lyrids 2

Single Part: Single Part O Holy Night Lyrids 2

Sarabande:

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Bach-Sarabande-Score-2.mp3|titles=Bach Sarabande Score 2]

Slow Rehearsal Recording:

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Bach-Sarabande-Score-RR-Lyrids1.mp3|titles=Bach Sarabande Score RR Lyrids]

Rehearsal Recording:

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Bach-Sarabande-Score-RR-Lyrids.mp3|titles=Bach Sarabande Score RR Lyrids]

Single Part:

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Single-Part-Bach-Sarabande-Score-Lyrids.mp3|titles=Single Part Bach Sarabande Score Lyrids]

Whew! The last 6 weeks are a blur. In this short time, we came up with an idea for a movie, created characters, wrote out scenes individually, and combined them into a script. We talked about the mood of each scene and created (and recorded) music on our instruments to score the scenes. Then we filmed the scenes, revised our script a little, created some new music to fit the revisions, and put it all together into our final movie… the Pillow Monster!!!! Enjoy.

Today marked the beginning of an epic adventure.

David, Juan (Jay), Gaby (Gabrielle), Anthony, Sienna, Jori, and Laura have devised a truly incredible movie treatment involving pillow monsters, snow, and (of course), music.

Backing up, class started with a conversation about the Media Lab for those who were new to the space. We looked at the Media Lab website, and checked out current and past Media Lab student projects, including work from the Experimental Music class and the Different Trains classes.

From there we started talking about narrative, and elements of narrative including:

– setting
– plot
– conflict
– characters
– point of view

We next watched some music videos, including Black Leaf’s The Cave Singers and Math the Band’s Four to Six. We talked about narrative (and a lot of other things) relevant to these videos, and then looked up some music on the Free Music Archive to see how the videos looked with music that had a different feel than the original soundtracks. We also looked at a simple home movie, Friday I’m in Love, as a way to talk about something that was shot almost exclusively in one location yet still held our interest.

We also checked out this awesome video, Birds on the Wires, which helped us think a little abstractly, and then the more literal Peter and the Wolf, in which we saw different instruments and sounds representing specific characters in a narrative.

After that we collectively wrote a kind of secret and very awesome plot for a movie we’ll be making – and scoring – as a class. Stay tuned to see how the project progresses!