In our final week we discussed a review of the themes of the course as well as the overarching goals: Did you do the readings and pay attention in class? Can you manage DAW software? Can you think critically and synthetically about working with DAW software? The themes we reviewed were: the problem of attention […]

In Monday’s class we continued the discussion of music transcending boundaries, using the example of the song Watermelon Man, written by Duke Ellington. The path of this song went from Herbie Hancock, to a renovation with Cuban influence by Mongo Santamaria, Johnnie Taylor transitioned it to soul, with a change in tempo to “white music”by […]