Notes for Class No. 4

Presentation of MaKey MaKey Board Instruments

Thursday, January 28, 2016

A video of this class is (or will be) posted at: http://echo360.uml.edu/heines2016/comp-mued2120.html

Handouts and Materials

Audacity Guides

Announcements / Reminders

Don't forget to submit your reflections for Assignment No. 1

as of 10:00 AM on Wednesday, January 27, 3 people had already done so
your responses to the reflective questions are worth 25% of your grade on this assignment
as shown in the assignment write-up, the URL to the reflection form is:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NaNxvFazvwv8WQ9o7nI2EH9IN8vhm3sN6i7vHrVghTo/viewform

Assignment No. 2 will involve using Audacity

get Audacity installed on your system over the weekend and begin exploring its capabilities
follow the instructions in the Audacity Guides
Prof. Dan Walzer has created instructional videos for you that we have posted on YouTube
- Adjustable Fades —> http://youtu.be/Ar9Wn-NwBK0
- Advanced EQ and Filters —> http://youtu.be/2WI4XluI0vw
- Dynamics Processing with Leveler —> http://youtu.be/INGaqH_eFqU
- Fade Out and Delay —> http://youtu.be/uxsSdMZa7dU
- Simple EQ and Volume All —> http://youtu.be/hOgu26L4MB0
Prof. Walzer has also created a simple mixing guide for Audacity
there are many other Audacity guides on the web and tutorial videos on YouTube
- just search for them

Class Notes

Today’s class will be devoted to presentations of your MaKey MaKey board instruments, the compositions created for them, and the notations used to capture those compositions.

UMass Lowell Dept. of Computer Science

COMP 2120 / MUED 2120 — Sound Thinking

Spring 2016 Semester, Section 201

Prof. Jesse M. Heines and Prof. Gena Greher