This is a board I'm creating to discuss how we can learn even more at Ex'pression (as if we didn't have enough already).
Here's the premise:
There are a lot of people at the College with expertise in very specialized areas. There are Sound Arts students and instructors, for instance, who might know a lot about guitar repair, or MAXmsp. There are also DVM and DGD students and instructors with specialty information (maybe your good with spraypaint, or with the intricacies of particle effects).
There should be a way to share this information. There has been talk of having electives at expression. I have a suggestion for a babystep in this direction. Here it is: Add an optional 2 hour clinic on insider's day. Students or teachers could propose a lecture on a special topic, and students could get insiders day credit for it. This means insiders day would run from 9-4, with the optional lectures 4-6. There are tons of topics I can think of for soundarts: mastering, a group mixing/listening/critique forum, instrument repair, advanced mic trickery and studio techniques (Theakston, come share your obscure knowledge!).
Anybody got any comments, suggestions, alternatives?
Here's the premise:
There are a lot of people at the College with expertise in very specialized areas. There are Sound Arts students and instructors, for instance, who might know a lot about guitar repair, or MAXmsp. There are also DVM and DGD students and instructors with specialty information (maybe your good with spraypaint, or with the intricacies of particle effects).
There should be a way to share this information. There has been talk of having electives at expression. I have a suggestion for a babystep in this direction. Here it is: Add an optional 2 hour clinic on insider's day. Students or teachers could propose a lecture on a special topic, and students could get insiders day credit for it. This means insiders day would run from 9-4, with the optional lectures 4-6. There are tons of topics I can think of for soundarts: mastering, a group mixing/listening/critique forum, instrument repair, advanced mic trickery and studio techniques (Theakston, come share your obscure knowledge!).
Anybody got any comments, suggestions, alternatives?
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Re: learning beyond the curriculum...
Fri, November 19, 2004 - 11:02 AMhere's some more info where I am with this idea...
talked to john scanlon about it this week, he's going to bring it up at a staff meeting after the break. He seems to like it, and the logistics don't seem to insane. What I'm looking for now is for people who'd be interested in actually teaching one of these little extra seminars.
I'm willing to do one on "beyond music theory 1&2"
I could also do one on "music theory for engineers who aren't musicians"
(this would be less about notes and chords, and more about structural, rhythmic and dynamic concepts in music... how to really "get" music from an aesthetic perpective, even if you don't know the notes)
Does anybody else have anything they'd want to each?
anything you'd like to see taught?
any instructor in particular you think might be a great candidate to do one of these sessions? (mr. circuit bending guy comes to mind)
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Re: learning beyond the curriculum...
Thu, December 9, 2004 - 4:44 PMHey Max, has this gone any further? I'm a 3D kid that couldn't really teach much aside from fine art. I would love the idea of being able to learn about music even though I'm in DVM. And hell, not to have to pay extra for it because its on insiders day, that rocks! Anything to push the Audio and 3D kids together is a good thing in my book. Need help, give me a yell.
-Seth
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