Isaac reporting back from the dead! I'm back and bringing revival to this lazarus of a blog heh. Since I've been MIA for too long and there's been a lot of ridiculousness going in this adventure I call my life, I decided I'm going to post EVERYDAY this week :)
Today's topic will be on my grad program here at Stanford: MST (Music, Science, Technology) Currently, I'm enrolled in three classes, details below:
MUS 192A: Recording Studio
In this class we're studying the anatomy of microphones, the circuit systems of the recording studio itself (wires, mics, mixers, etc.), and the general use of the recording studio (mic placement, mixing software, etc.) The class culminates in a final project where we have to make a high quality recording of something. I'm thinking of finishing my all-acoustic album or/and recording a hybrid album (think Mute Math meets Daft Punk meets Phil Wickham)
MUS 250A: Human Computer Interactions Design for Music
I'm in love with this class fsho! We talk about how to design interactive, intuitive instruments so there's a lot of sketching involved. I've always liked drawing designs (took ME 101 for those Stanfordians reading this) and I love different instruments so put two and two together, you get a happy Isaac :). This class' final project involves designing your own instrument that can be playable! I'm thinking an advanced keytar, but any other thoughts?
MUS 320: Introduction to Digital Audio Signal Processing
This class deals with the mathematical aspect of audio/music and how to represent an audio signal as a bunch of sine waves/complex exponentials. What's amazing about this class is it has sorta kinda maybe made me fall in love with Math (again). Math @ Stanford has always been overly complex and entirely impossible to understand for me, but for the first time I actually get what the heck we're talking about in a Math class. This is probably due to the fact that I'm studying Math (something that's hard for me to completely grasp) of Music (something I'm pretty confident in). Who knows, I might switch to a Math major after I finish this series of Math/Music classes (there are 2 more classes besides this one so...*crosses fingers*)
...and now for a completely random subject change, check out this music video here! Esther brought it back from her VSET missions trip to Kyrgyzstan. According to her, it's the most popular song in all of Kyrgyzstan haha. What do you guys think?
....and not for ANOTHER completely random subject change, here's a teaser picture of an upcoming post for this week heh heh.
1 comment:
i'm taking a recording studio class, too! Except there are too many ppl in my class! Idk if I'll get a lot of time actually recording cause everyone has to get a chance...our teacher's too nice, so although the class is only supposed to be like 10 ppl, there are over 20+ ppl in the class :-\.
But yeah, I think I might do some jazz recordings this semester, during the class, hah.
I'm glad you're bloggin! i'll do some more too, hopefully soon :D.
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