Posted in discussion on 2 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sound Design: Music and Sound and their Relationships with Images – Paul Rodgers
Sound in Film
Sound is an integral part of modern film and television, being one of the two major stimuli through which film makers can communicate with their audience. It is not surprising therefore that there are production practises and techniques that [...]
Posted in discussion on 30 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Source
“Collaborators succeeded in playing a sound recording made in 1860 – 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. Roughly ten seconds in length, the recording is of a person singing the French folksong “Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit.” It was made on April 9, 1860 by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville [...]
Posted in discussion on 12 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My group’s presentation was on musical extremes. We decided to take the concept in a slightly different direction and critically analysed a piece of music in a genre we loved and another from a genre we hated. We tried to give an unbiased approached but I’m sure our passions split over so in this blog [...]
Posted in discussion on 11 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Claire Leonard, Ashleigh Kilgore, Stephen Lunn, Ian Jordan
The following is also available in .pdf
Plagiarism:
The practice of claiming or implying original authorship of (or incorporating material from) someone else’s written or creative work, in whole or in part, into one’s own without adequate acknowledgement – the issue of false attribution.
Musical ‘imitation’ is when a musical [...]
Posted in discussion, tagged DIY on 10 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
The D.I.Y. Generation
A Crisis or a Revolution?
Introduction
Our concern is with the current musical climate. Together we feel that certain changes in the last 4 or 5 years in the music industry, and in how we access and enjoy music, are leading to a new generation of musicians, producers and consumers. No-one can doubt that music [...]
Posted in discussion on 10 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
LOVE: ALTERNATIVE MUSIC
Definition?
- A genre of music that differs from mainstream (pop, rock, dance R&B etc…) and has become an umbrella term that now encompasses a wide variety of genres:
Grunge, Britpop, Indie pop/ rock, Goth rock, Industrial, Glam Rock, Art Rock, Progressive rock, Acoustic pop, ‘Nu’ metal.
