Music Editing

I worked with the program Goldwave and I have to say it was a really great experience. Here are some of the final projects I was able to create:

The songs:
The dog days are over and feel good time had minor editing. With these two songs I had to listen to the music and find a good spot to cut them to make them under two and a half minutes. This was easier thanks to the Beatles and that music is very repetitive now. But i never realized how much time goes into making sure there is not one extra beat. I will be sing these in actual dance classes I teach.... so it really already is proving useful.

Small I decided to have more fun with. I used tools to adjust the level of the sound, and even add some sounds in there, if you listen closely you will hear the Nokia ring tone in there. It took me a long time, but it was a lot of fun.

Walking on Air has again minor editing. This is the full song in it's entirety, I have just played with the beats, the timing, and the noise levels.

The very hardest part of this assignment was getting them on here. I didn't realize that blogger does not support audio files, then neither does youtube, and neither does any program that I could find. Som after struggling for hours, I did the easiest thing I could think of so here they are recorded on my camera and posted to you youtube.

One reason I chose this program and this project is that this is a free program that still has a lot of different things thsat you can do to the music.  Free programs are very beneficial when working with a small budget as you have with many dance programs and arts programs in schools. I also have a unit plan I created for my practicum class for either a dance 3 class or a Dance Company that involves the students doing their own choreography project.  In this project I would like the students to be able to cut the music on their own, so that they may "own" their choreography.  I would take the students to the lab one of the first days of the class and give them the opportunity to play with different tracks of music and the capabilities that they have with creating music.  This would be great if I had access to a computer lab. I think when I do get a job with a school I will make sure I look into what computer programs they have available and take the knowledge that I have learned to learn a new technology and pass that on to my students.