User:Rafael

Name: Rafael Canedo

E-mail: rafcanedo@yahoo.com

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Personal FAQ
===Everyone should check out this site if you are interested in working with sound in ways that conventional consumer software might not be designed to do. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/04/27/pd.html This Gives a brief intro into a data-flow programming language that allows you to construct your own system or "patch". This programming language is called Pure Data... or PD. If you are trying to use software like Pro-Tools, Audacity, Logic, etc... for anything other than just recording and editing, chances are that you are stuck with the same preset options as everyone else. This can not only hinder your creative process but also determine the margins of a whole genre of music. Softwares like Pure Data, Max/MSP and other object oriented Data flow programming languages allow for a somewhat user friendly way to bypass the barriers imposed on your creativity by "preset" realm of consumer audio software. Check out the website!!!!!!!!

What experience do you have with sound software and what kind?
Pro Tools and Max/MSP.

All your base buddy...

What experience do you have with programming and what kind?
Max/MSP.

See http://www.rejon.org/bio/

What do you know and how interested are you in Free Culture, Open Source, and Programming?
...I know little but wish to find out more!

What kind of experience with building speakers and external sound hardware do you have?
...Some experience with external sensors and hooking them up to computers.

What type of installations / performances have you done?
...

Which aspects of audio interest you? (recording / performance / sound installations...)
...All!

Do you play an instrument and what is the instrument(s)?
...I never been trained to play anything... but I don't let that stop me.

What do you want to get out of this class?
...I want to expand the technical vocabulary of my "practice", as well as the discourses that surround it.

Do you take another sound class this semester and what is its name?
...

What kind of music are you into? Art, pop, whatever...
...C'mon maaaan!

What field trips would you like? (studio)
...Naut Humans lab.

What is your secret weapon?
...It's a secret!

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Rafael Canedo Intro to Digital Sound -First Proposal

In the next six months I desire to explore the various social-political and formal qualities of sound: pertaining to digital but not exclusively. Hopefully by penetrating into the various practices of working with sound, such as recording, production, distribution (of various forms), performance, engineering, etc… and contextualizing them through the perspective of traditional music as well as more contemporary practices such as the various forms of sound art, I will be able to further contextualize and develop my interests. I have a project I have been working on which is I will perform on the sixteenth of September at the SFAI welcoming party. It is a dynamic amalgamation of different pre-recorded sounds (in the form of vinyl records), composed into syncretic expressions aimed at communicating some of me (and my homie’s) marginal ideas of how we understand music. A major part of communicating these expressions is structuring them into a format that they can exist meaningfully. In this case, a party! Performance is a big part of our vocabulary. I wish to add to this vocabulary in as many aspects as I can; engineering, programming, etc…