School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts<\/a>. It will feature students discussing their work in the Recording and the Producer course (PERF 317) and the processes they went through with the guidance of Dr. Will Connor, lecturer and expert in ethnomusicology. A Q&A session will follow, and pizza and refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe course provides an entry-level introduction to studio work, equipment and production and teaches students how to explore recording techniques. The tracks have been available on a second-floor kiosk in the building and will now get a larger audience at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m extremely proud of the students who participated in PERF 317,\u201d Connor said. \u201cTheir creativity continually surprised and pleased me, and they clearly exhibited their understanding of the equipment and the procedure. They found inventive ways of expressing themselves with the sounds they generated, and the sounds bestowed upon them from other producers in the course.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a precursor to creating the tracks, Connor shared a playlist with the students to show different forms of production, including black metal, J-pop, country and classical. Some producers are basically recording engineers, he said, but others have a much larger influence on the end result, pointing to Rick Rubin\u2019s work with the Beastie Boys as a prime example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project put the 20 students in groups of four to create stems of tracks with traditional instruments \u2014 piano, drums, guitar, keyboard \u2014 along with electronic instruments, noisemakers and toys. Connor also encouraged them to take a portable recorder outdoors for environmental sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The students took those elements and turned them into full-fledged tracks, piecing them together and mastering them. Studio banter and laughter were even included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Experience levels in the class varied. Only five students were musicians, Connor said, and none had experience recording themselves in a studio. Connor arranged the groups so that each had at least one person with some experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSome were well-versed in being musicians, but they didn\u2019t have the opportunity to walk into an actual studio and put something on digital tape,\u201d he said. \u201cJust that opportunity was appreciated by many of the students to get in there and dig around.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Breanna Loredo-Rayas, a freshman performance studies major, was joined in her group by Cody Barina, Sydney Do and Sam Gay. She said she felt a newfound appreciation for music through the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt gave me the opportunity to make music with sounds I had never considered using before,\u201d she said. \u201cI also got to use programs I had never heard of. It gave me first-hand experience of what musicians and their producers go through to make the music they put out to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The free rein of resources was a bonus for Sam Payne, a senior interdisciplinary engineering major. He was joined in making two tracks by Tony Chuo, a senior economics major; Jase Hollingsworth, a sophomore engineering major; and Shannon Reed, a senior English major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2018Comet Cruisin\u2019 is way laid back and has these spacey sound effects and nonrhythmic percussion,\u201d Payne said. \u201cOur classmates said it was sort of straddling the line between lo-fi and Tron music, which was about what we were going for by calling it \u2018Comet Cruisin.\u2019 Our second track is titled \u2018Chillin\u2019 in the Fondue Pit\u2019 and feels a like a rave because we wanted our tracks to feel super distinct from each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The collaboration in making the music was \u201can exercise in compromise,\u201d Payne said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI loved when someone else’s idea turned out to be better than mine,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause it was really nice being in a group where everyone’s talents contributed something different to the music we were making.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each group created one track that was given to another group to play with, so that students could make creative decisions based on others\u2019 ideas. Students were impressed with the results, and Loredo-Rayas called the reimagining of her group\u2019s track \u201cnothing short of astonishing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPretty regularly,\u201d Connor said, \u201ca group that had submitted a track and heard what the other group did with their track said, \u2018Wow, we never would have thought to use it that way. I don\u2019t even recognize that, what did you do to it?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Payne\u2019s group was given a drum beat, which was then cut into pieces and rearranged in a different pattern. He likened it to \u201cWhere\u2019s Waldo?\u201d in identifying the original material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe gave other groups our Waldos with our own ideas in mind,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think hearing how they made them work for their tracks with their own ideas and motivations speaks to both my classmates’ resourcefulness and Dr. Connor’s teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The students\u2019 work showed creativity and clever compositional ideas, Connor said. He called the music \u201chighly impressive and exceptionally fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey paid attention to each other. They worked together very well,\u201d he said. \u201cThey were such a friendly group. They really enjoyed giving each other tips and ideas. It was a very positive experience. I had a really good time working with the students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Photo: Dr. Will Connor, Stephen Cepeda, Breanna Loredo-Rayas and Sam Payne listen to tracks created in Connor’s Recording and the Producer class. Photo by Rob Clark.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten music tracks created by students in a fall performance studies class will take the spotlight in a listening party on March 22 at 6:30 p.m. The PERF Music Producers\u2019 Showcase in Room 225 of the Liberal Arts …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":15261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62,58,144],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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