The html tasks and my dusted oboe

What I'm doing now is making comments over some assignments that I've done in the past 5 months in Tech trends music class at NYU. I'd never realize that all this stuff could be useful if one try to walk further out of the boundaries stipulated by some rigid-standard ways of music making.
One of the most interesting task I had to go over - interesting but not easy! - was the the animation with audio.
For this assignment, I downloaded a trial version of Ulead GIF Animator. It's an interesting animation program so you get used to it really quick. First of all, I had to bring down all images size I used here. The resolution was too big, then I lowered it to 450 X 328. As the main frames, I used five images and the quantity of frames added between them was adjusted according to the effect I wanted to see in every animation.The first effect used is the Cross Zoom-Strech, I thought it would be more appropriate to start with this one if I consider the big guy on the image and the music I put on it. Check it out at my website and all work I've done.

Remembering good stuff!!!

This assignment was kind of delightful for me. I decided to make a movie about my hometown, Belém do Pará. Then I got some pictures of it on Google which I thought would describe it best. As the first step, I resized the pictures with Photoshop to 320X212, and then I used the Windows Movie Maker to create the movie.The good thing about this program is that is very ease to work with it, but I would complain only about the settings of the titles and credits, though. For instance, I tried to put the fade-in-fade-out title and move it around the picture, but the Movie maker doesn't allows that, so I had to decided which title animation would be more appropriate, since most of the titles are set in the middle of the picture. I used the Audacity to cut the music and added it to the movie by dragging it to the Movie Maker.

The climax!!

As a big combination, here is my final project, presented over the break. I was in my parents home (Brazil) when I got it done. It's a combination of music notation, table (website's skeleton), audio and animation. It's a simple project but took a lot of time to be done. First of all I picked an music arrangement of a scene from The Nozze di Figaro by Mozart for woodwind quintet. I put it in the Finale notation program, then I saved it as JPG file.
Thereby, I saved it as MP3 file directly from Finale, which is cool because you don't have to go to another audio program and spend more time converting it from MUS file to MP3 file. And finally I organized all of this into a table, so I could have the exactly view of my project, just like I wanted. Check it out at http://homepages.nyu.edu/~mp1980/tech.html/finalproject.html/

Getting busy hands.....

It's has been a while since my first post, but a student life isn't so normal as we could expect. Wait a minute..who said students have normal life?. Well, let me get busy hands in describing what I have done in Tech Trends Music class in the last few months.
Meanwhile I post all information of my assignments, I will upload you video which I liked a lot. It's about a software-sequencer that controls 8 solenoids, making them to knock on different things and then produce some rhythmic noise. Made with puredata, an arduino board and a selfmade relayboard to control the solenoids. It's awesome!

An oboe among frames

It was completely impossible to expect this kind of experience when I started out playing oboe 10 years ago. A 17-years-old student, who struggles to make the best oboe reed so the audience can not say "Oh my God, how bad he sounds!", wouldn't imagine that one day, he would get involved with the exciting world of technology. Of course people could say "Well, it's predictable to happen since our life is in constant changing". But seriously, would you expect that since the only thing you want to be is a standard orchestra member or soloist?

My perception of music making has changed in the last two months since I started working  in how to make movies, animations, and specially my website. Even though I spend most of my time practicing scales, etudes, orchestra repertoire and concertos, I try to understand what all this new environment could add in my music business. And you readers will find out with me through my blog.