what my thesis is about

From 1960s Jamaican dance hall culture to today's contemporary plunderphonics, music has relied on the sample. Sampling is the act of taking a portion of an existing piece of music and using it within a new piece of music. Sampling crosses all genres of music. Sampling has also been an area of contention from a legal perspective.

I would like to do more research on sampling culture. This would include interviews with music experts and the creation of both analog and digital samples. This research would culminate in a performance where I present a piece chronicling the history of the sample from its early roots to the now established culture.

Nudge....addictive

proud of my crazy!

algorithmic composition

Algorithmic composition is music made with algorithms. I used a free composition tool to create MIDI compositions. Each one was generated based around a different algorithm. You can download the files I created here.

These files can be used in any digital audio workstation as you would any other MIDI file.

To create your own go to: http://musicalgorithms.ewu.edu/index.html

The thing about learning is that you have to feel pretty stupid sometimes...

School is going okay. I have made it my goal to teach myself Ableton Live - I would like to play my drumpad in front of people in the next 3 months. I do not think I have any sort of innate musical ability, mostly it confuses me. I get really mixed up in the basic mathematics of it and also do not know very much about music theory. I have some advantages though - I have a wide variety of musical influences to draw from and also like to read. Plus I have friends that know way more about music than I do.

okay i made another place for my music