Best while you're young to enjoy it. You only get to be young once. Although you can when you're much older, it just doesn't hold up so well. Still looking out for some work, did an interview the other day and hoping something in the next month breaks open so I can get back into work - kinda missing it which sounds funny but when you were working for a few years and you're not for six months it sort of becomes a void.
My music - well I finally upgraded to an actual instrument so I've got a few weird things here and there that I'm working on and trying different things. It's a lot better (and more creative-wise) to have hardware where you have to do most of the programming.
As a kid you can't wait for the Summer holidays, but at university, where you get days off during the week and have a social life at night, it all becomes just too much. I still need to sort something out for my final year at university, find a course to enroll on. Then I HAVE to find a job.
Well that's it, you're doing hard work - what are you studying? - and during the week you'd be exhausted. I know I was with my work and being called in at last minute and working ridiculous hours - 3pm to 8pm, or 5pm - 9.30pm. They weren't long hours but it's at the arse-end of the day where all you wanna do is crash out lol.
The actual instrument is - a synthesiser:
It runs via USB and allows me to create sounds and modify them on my computer, then layer them all together through Garageband or Logic.
I was studying a sound and video technology course, but having finished that, I want to top it up to a degree, so I'm looking at music technology courses. I would've been finished now, with a degree in the original course had I not messed up in the second year. Fortunately, I still graduate with a qualification which provides a good foundation for a one-year degree top-up course.
It's great when I finally worked out why certain parts weren't responding to input.
Music technology courses, is that including things such as instruments and playing within bands or reading music notation? As long as you're able to graduate with something worthwhile then it's worth it in the end. Good luck for whatever it is that you do continue on with.
The modules you study will make use of the extensive resources including an 80 seat computer centre incorporating Cubase, Reaktor, Reason and Sound Forge, five traditional studios and three ProTools HD2 suites. The University also has Avid accredited status enabling you to undertake a further recognised industry qualification.
The course is highly practical and you will learn about recording technology, studio equipment, synthesizer technology, live sound, acoustics and electro acoustics, as well as recording systems integration and mastering.
The course is highly practical and you will learn about recording technology, studio equipment, synthesizer technology, live sound, acoustics and electro acoustics, as well as recording systems integration and mastering.
The bold part is the best-sounding part of it all. So you reckon this would be your forte to pursue? When you start working with music production and other technology relating to production, you won't be able to get enough of it. Creativity is key - it sounds very similar to what I was going to go for in university.
I just finished my retail course a week or so ago. I feel much more comfortable applying for jobs and knowing the basics of how retail works - now just to find a job. I have a month set to my own standards and then I don't know what I'm gonna do.
All of those little pieces were part of the sound section of the course I did up to HND. Every week I was working in a recording studio with a small group, recording live sounds, tinkering with the effect units and ultimately mixing tracks for end of year projects. The facilities were great, the university had spent a lot of money on them in the years prior to me joining. But yeah, I've messed with plenty of mixing desks, synth equipment, studio hardware etc.
