Two things got me thinking about music this week:
- I am about to start a Songwriting MOOC
- The University of Edinburgh's MSc eLearning research into music and learning
- What could you generate from something that is online? This would be a purely digital piece that the machine makes.
- 2. What music could you remix using online tools?
3. A piece of music using the notes EDC.
It occurred to me on Sunday - after staring at it for 3 months - that the term "EDC MOOC" contained within it three notes on the musical scale : E, D, and C. I had been preparing my own artefact on the same day (and viewing other peoples), and kept noticing the free music that gets used in videos. It's often a fairly ordinary piece of piano or guitar music. To get round the potential copywrite issues of using someone else's music (which many on the course have been discussing this week), I thought I'll just write & play my own. When I realised the EDC note co-incidence I knew this was a sign! All I'd need to do was compose something that used the three notes as its basis. I spent an evening coming up with a tune. You can play the notes EDC together yourself here to see where I got my basic melody from (it actually sounds just like the Nursery Rhyme "Three Blind Mice"). I recorded my guitar piece, and used a snippet for the intro video for my artefact.
I've also been wanting to look back at the edcmooc Flickr images to pick out my favourites now that the course has ended. This seemed like a good opportunity to combine my edcmooc music with some edcmooc images (in true HartBeat gallery style). I wanted to try a new tool for this, and after trying a few which were too complicated. came across Masher. This was a nice and simple tool. You can upload your own pics, video, and music, or choose the ones alreaady on there. There is some great stock footage from BBC and elsewhere which could be really good for making videos to accompany music. Click the link below the image below to hear my video.
This has also been my 45th blog post, which considering the musical theme seems very fitting (and any excuse to listen to Motown).
- A typically thought provoking piece from Angela Towndrow here which mentions lots of novel ideas for "blogjects" in the real world "For me, it's about the getting of wisdom and using the tools to that end". http://angelatowndrow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/spimal-tap-harnessing-blogjects-of.html
- Time and Tide Bell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Dm-FeNwbI
- A really excellent Pinterest artefact by Ruth Wilson that has many interesting ideas of electronic music & sound online http://pinterest.com/ruthwww/humans-nature-technology-coursera-edcmooc/
- An excellent idea from my MOOC class mate Chris Millison. Chris created a mix tape to reflect on his studies in #edcmooc. I like the different perspective and format he used to write his feedback. What an interesting experiment.
- Music made from people's tweets: http://thelisteningmachine.org/