220a-fall-2007/studentmusic

Student Music Presentations

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9/27

• Chris Warren: musical uses of modified transducers, feedback piano piece

10/2

• David Bao: metal tracks and discussion of quality/range of Mike Patton vocals

• Lawrence Fyfe: played Creative Commons licensed piece by Lavoura (ccMixter.com); discussion of CC licensing (between Copyright and Public Domain)

10/04

• Michael Perl: multitrack recording of band in ProTools; influences: Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mayer; Discussion of mic setup, soloing of instrument tracks

10/09

• John Blessing: live sound at Stanford; discussion of IP, copyright, fair use, sampling/bootleg violation of DMCA ("transformative work" difficult to substantiate legally)

• Alex Bulllit: live sound engineer for musical theatre and rock; discussion of theatrical effects sound design

10/11

• Chris Vega: excerpts of pieces with excellent studio production

10/16

• Jennifer Evans: music of Daft Punk, discussion of live gear (and mixing/processing in Abelton Live, Behringer MIDI controllers); group's change from hardware to software-based setup

10/18

• Susan Nourse: Flaming Lips tracks then video of New Year's bash and Daft Punk summer show, asked the question 'what's better about small vs. large arena concert settings'; "a band should be able to entertain a crowd and the light show really helps"

10/23

• Turner Kirk: numerous examples of music and elusive references to a character of mythological status

• Nicholas Bryan: composition reflecting off of Steve Reich: [1]

10/25

• Alex Medearis: turntablism and the X-Ecutioners, who work as an ensemble, trading off musical material, video demonstrates their awareness of stage presence; early connection between DJ and MC/rapper, discussion of "breakbeat" from needing to break up beats in disco records, and/or play only the instrumental "breaks"

10/30

• Yung-Shen Hsiao: timbre of wood and metal percussion explored in synthesis and transformation of samples; musical idea: hide and reveal; ending is transformed melody by Beethoven

11/01

• Ethan Hartman: discussion of aesthetic of randomness; musical examples of Delta blues recording with noise due to 78 medium contrasted with Cage's 'Music of Changes' performed on piano, followed by Cecil Taylor solo piano recording

11/06

• Elise Macmillan: examples of folk-electronic/live performance, including video of ? (violin guy)

• Steinunn Arnardottir: Icelandic music -- performers and bands

11/08

• Alex Williamson: discussion of music

11/13

• Jeff Cooper: live guitar/vocal performance over background track, video against musical selections

• Alena Kuczynski: the problem of Stanford bubble vs. NYC and personal relationship to music, musical examples

11/15

• Kyle Spratt: Fleischer Studios 1930 cartoon 'Swing, You Singer'; NYC jazz musicians hired to record soundtracks (1921-1942); experimentation of animation in 1930s when it was a new medium; Martin Denny covered the Rube Bloom song 'Song of the Bayou' in the album 'Exotic Percussion' (1961)

• Blair Bohannan: nostalgia and narrative in music -- what makes a piece nostalgic and how do lyrics and/or visualization make more specific or change the effect? Examples: Rachmaninoff piano concerto (descending melody lines); Granddaddy band (lush texture, lyrics, narrative, 2000); 'Hedwig and the Angry Itch' film song performance 'The Origin of Love'

11/27

• Jeff Smith

• Hayden Bursk

• Baek Chang

• Lea Simon

12/04

• Tania Lanfer Marquez

• Reed Anderson

• Chris Weill

• Gina Gu

• Diana Siwiak

• Jidenna Mobisson

• Isaac Wang

• Adnan Marquez

12/06

• Mauricio Rodriguez

• Kimberly Johnson

• Jason Riggs

• Cobi van Tonder