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Teaching in Technicolor
Incorporating Technology into the Studio
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Overview❖ Audio Recording
❖ Video Recording
❖ MIDI and Digital Keyboards
❖ Software
❖ Why should we incorporate technology?
❖ A Technophile’s Wishlist
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Audio Recording
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Types of Microphones
Omnidirectional Bidirectional Cardioid Hypercardioid
Dynamic Ribbon Condenser
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Understanding Our Microphones
❖ MEMS: Microelectromechanical System❖ Designed to capture the amplitude and frequency of
the human voice.❖ Because it’s a phone.❖ Some smartphones have multiple microphones or
noise gates❖ Smaller sampling rate
❖ Recording apps exist for both Android and iOS❖ They can adjusts the digital aspects of recording, such
as sampling rate, noise gates❖ You can buy external microphones for smartphones
and laptops❖ Handheld recorders are portable, and are much better
than smartphones for recording
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The ImportanceOf Placement
Placement can affect the blend, the volume, the range, the sound quality, and the reverb.
If you are in a performance venue, you might want to place the microphone in the middle and up - think of the direction of the sound from the performer.
Voice
Strings
Winds and Brass
Piano
Be wary of...❖ Leakage: sounds from other sources blending into each other (especially if
recording an ensemble)❖ Background Noise: sounds like HVAC systems can harm an otherwise
good recording❖ Reverb: This is the persistence of sound - too much or too little reverb can
affect the quality of the recording
❖ The closer to the voice the microphone is, the less “reflection” you get - or a more “focused” sound.
❖ Place the microphone between 6 inches and 3 feet away from the f-hole.
❖ The best sound is often right near the bell - too far away and you’ll hear a lot of echoes and reverb.
❖ Microphones can be placed right near the soundboard, or about 15 feet back and way up, depending on the room.
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Editing❖ Trimming: essentially cut, copy, and paste. But you can create “artefacts” (unwanted sounds) by doing this, so be careful.
❖ Fading: Allows you to fade in and fade out, especially useful to get rid of audience noises in a live recording.
❖ Noise Reduction: Eliminates certain frequencies - can be very useful to get rid of humming from the environment.
❖ Synchronization: Lining up audio and video recorded from separate devices
❖ Never edit recordings for competitions/auditions unless they specifically allow, beyond trimming the audio. Sound engineers can always tell!
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Teaching with Recordings
❖ Poor recordings can make it difficult for students to listen for tone, dynamics, phrasing… pretty much anything musical!❖ Recording your lesson for students can help them during the week, both by demonstrations and listening for what they did
during the lesson❖ High quality recordings can help students (and ourselves) hear what sound we’re capable of.❖ Recording recitals make a great memento for students, their friends, and families.❖ Recording backing tracks and accompaniments can help with learning ensembles, concertos, and even technique (in place of a
metronome.❖ The waveforms of a recording can help a student see their dynamic contrasts.
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Video Recording❖ Video recordings are great for showing students technical
problems and solutions.
❖ Make great mementos for students, friends, and families.
❖ Can be used for long-distance teaching.
❖ As smartphones increasingly become cameras that can text, their video recording capabilities far exceeds their use as an audio recorder.
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The Importance of PlacementPart Two❖ Sports uses multiple camera angles for a reason! Different angles can greatly affect your
perception of a student’s technique
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MIDI and Digital Keyboards
❖ Built-in capabilities are great for backing tracks, metronome, and exploring other sounds.
❖ The MIDI interface allows you to hook it up to your computer: allows you to place directly into a music notation software, composition programs like Garageband, connect to visualizers, and other programs like MaxMSP.
❖ MIDI also allows a keyboard to “talk” to another keyboard, and can be used for a (much cheaper) Disklavier system.
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Dongles❖ One downside is just how many things you need to support all the different technologies.❖ You might need:
➢ USB adapters➢ USB-B, USB-C, USB male to male...➢ VGA/HDMI adpaters➢ ¼ inch to ⅛ inch adapters➢ Power cords➢ XLR cables➢ Various audio cables
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Digital Audio Workstations
❖ DAWs can be very expensive: Ableton, Logic, and Adobe Audition can be hundreds of dollars
❖ Free DAWs are great and do almost everything you will probably need to do.
❖ Audacity, Reaper, and Ardour (Linux).
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Video Editing Programs
❖ Most often, the program that comes with your computer is more than adequate
❖ iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Quicktime (basic editing only)
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Music Notation Software
❖ Sibelius (no longer supported) and Finale are still the industry standard.
❖ Dorico is the newest notation program.
❖ Musescore is a good free program for basic notation.
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Visual Programming Languages
❖ If you want a challenge, or are really into electronic music, these are the programs for you!
❖ MaxMSP is the most common program used by composers today.
❖ PureData is the free version of MaxMSP, but isn’t as user friendly.
❖ You can also explore SuperCollider and RCTmix if you want to get weird with it.
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This sounds hard. So why should you bother?
❖ Can help students engage with music through creating visuals to go with the piece
❖ Adds another creative outlet to learning music
❖ Allows students to hear and see things that they can’t when they are playing
❖ Allows students to explore new sounds
❖ Students and teachers to engage with technology
❖ Enables long-distance lessons and performances
❖ Mementos for students
❖ High quality recording can help students with auditions, competitions, and festivals
❖ Creating backtracks and accompaniments for repertoire and technique
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A Technophile’s Dream❖ Dr. Dan Landes’s set-up: Go Pro camera hooked up to monitor
above the piano, and a finger weight sensor installed in the acoustic grand piano
❖ Eye-Tracking Goggles
❖ Yamaha Disklavier/Steinway Spirio
❖ Piano Marvel
❖ Vibrato, pitch bend, filters, and microtones: TouchKeys
❖ Wearable controls with MaxMSP
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