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Youth Music Box
This is a preview of Youth Music Box, a free interactive musical experience, designed to let you create a unique track and video in under 10 minutes.
Youth Music Box is currently living at the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Youth Music Box is a project of Youth Music, the UK’s largest children’s music charity, providing funding for music projects and activities.
The Coolest Teacher Ever
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Paul Rubenstein (aka Ubertar) is a composer, musician, musical instrument inventor and recording engineer.
He may also be the coolest teacher ever.
He teaches a class called Building Music at Franklin K. Lane and Wingate High Schools in Brooklyn. Students learn to build their own electric guitars, from winding their own electric pickups to designing the guitar body to fretting the fingerboard (Paul has students utilizing a microtonal seven-tone equal temperament scale).
That’s Rubenstein, right. He wants you to know that he’s not holding a monster bong. It’s the Invisitar, one of his many instrument designs.
After building the guitars, the class then creates original music with these instruments through amplifiers also of their own construction. The students bring a sense of improvisational fun that would be expected from a class armed with homemade amplified electric instruments.
Here’s a track that features students Tyrone and Nick on the guitars they made, Ayonde on electric saron, Hector on claves, Angel on doumbek, Rashid on shaker and Mr. R (Paul Rubenstein) on tambourine:
Teaching kids to build their own electronic instruments so that they can rock out microtonally? That’s a teacher that’s interested in opening minds up, instead of closing them.
Check out the smiles on the kids that he’s worked with.
Here’s a slideshow of the kids and their projects:
Don’t you imagine some of these kids are going to be doing some very interesting things in a few years?
via WFMU
Keyfax has released Sound Advice – a DVD almost 9 hours in length providing ‘no parameter left behind’ information and expertise on analog-style synth programming and digital effects.
Sound Advice’s 3 DVDs encompass:
- Synth programming techniques
- An exhaustive parameter-by-parameter guide
- Digital effects
The DVD’s navigation system allows you to use Sound Advice in many different ways: As a complete master class tutorial, as a work of reference (you can search individual sound parameters), or as an encyclopedia of techniques and sound types (creating pads, modifying sound FX etc).
“All you need to know about oscillators, filters, envelopes, dynamics and effects that will enable you to produce the sound that you are looking for on your synth – totally from scratch,” says legendary producer and 2007 GRAMMY nominee Alan Parsons. Read more…
Grooveboxmusic.com has announced a new option for Pro Tools training, Pro Tools Tips and Tricks with Kenny Gioia.
Containing 40 video tutorials and running over 3 hours in length, the collection of video tutorials covers topics such as Mixing, Production and Utilities. The collection reveals techniques used by professional Pro Tools engineer Kenny Gioia to get great sounding tracks, create tight loops and rhythm parts, and create cool effects.
Covers:
- Beat Detective Collection Mode
- Kick Drum Replacement
- Snare Drum Replacement
- Stuttering Guitars
- Scratching in Pro Tools
- Recording Background Vocals
- Comping Vocals
- Using Mono Delays
- -Wah Effect
- Advanced Markers
- Making a Vocoder
- De-Essing Vocals
Pro Tools Tips and Tricks with Kenny Gioia is available on CD-ROM or as a digital download directly from www.grooveboxmusic.com.
Streamworks Audio has announced SWA Mastering Revealed.
This instructional video covers the most important steps when mastering, such as tonal balance by means of Equalization, applying compression to your audio source to tighten up the dynamic range as needed, as well as Loudness maximizing to give your song that punch.
The video also covers additional areas that are sometimes used when mastering such as adding a touch of sparkle with harmonic exciters, a dash of reverb to add space, as well as working to keep your audio in phase.
