October 1, 2012 - Garageband

Assignment: You need to complete your football (mellow) assignment. I will be checking for that on Friday. It needs to be one minute long and be quiet enough and hopeful enough that it can be the sound bed to an interview with football players about the challenges they have had this season. So, be thinking about the mood you are putting out there.

10 pts.

For inspiration, you might want to listen to Studio 360 (a show that plays on the weekend on NPR about the arts.) They had a DJ Remix competition. I listened to the winners over the weekend while I was on a car trip. Please listen to the original stem of music before you listen to the winners. Really interesting and makes me so excited about what you will be able to do in this class.

Here is the original music stem.

Here are the winners. Don't listen until you have thought of what you would do. Most composers know that listening to other music corrupts your choices while making music. It gets in your head and you can't shake it. That is just so you know. Musician Bon Iver went to the woods in Wisconsin for six months to stay in a cabin with only Northern Exposure DVDs while he wrote his Grammy-awarding- winning CD

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.