Living/Learning Center Programs
The University of Vermont
Program
Overview
Music Production is a professional interest/performing arts program for those who want to learn or advance their skills in the technical aspects of recorded music. Students will master techniques in music production, song writing, MIDI and electronic music, as well as learning the recording process and finally putting it all together for our self produced CD.
Music Production will support an environment where music in all forms is encouraged. Program members will be encouraged to play with other students where new ideas are formed, recorded, and eventually made into song. Students will be in constant musical contact with one another and will form groups to record their original songs with.
In Music Production, we plan to utilize music as an outlet for creative expression. As a program, we will work together to share what we know about making and producing music with each other. It will be a community of students with the unanimous understanding that live music will not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
Aside from jamming, we will have an agenda of program activities. We plan to hold bi-weekly meeting to discuss the process of taking an original song and producing for a studio quality recording. Program directors lead students with goals throughout album production and will openly accept input from all program members to make for a productive program.
Presently, our lists of program activities include hosting live performances by program members as well as bands and artists outside of the program, playing open mic nights in L&L and Slade hall to promote the program, discussions on production techniques, and plenty of listening to original and recorded music. Ultimately, we will produce a compilation of recordings on an album. Our cd of original material will be sold to benefit charity such as a Tsunami relief fund or VH1's Save the Music Foundation.
Learning
Objectives
Students
will learn how to write, record, and produce original music.
Action Steps
§ Members will be encourages to work with each other and on their own to develop their musical skills.
§ Members will work closely with program directors in production of final compilation.
Students will learn production tips techniques ad tricks for recording their own studio quality music.
Action Steps
§ We will meet with music tech teachers.
§ Members will learn a solid foundation of production techniques at weekly meetings.
§ As the year progresses, we will integrate more complex and professional techniques into the ongoing curriculum.
§ Program members will visit a recording studio midway though the first semester.
§ In order to expose ourselves to varying genres and styles of music we will attend local concerts as a program. Moreover, this experience will help members to note differences between live music and produced recordings.
Program members will become proficient in performing together to develop original pieces for recording and production.
Action Steps
§ All program members will meet weekly to plan out and work on the final compilation.
§ Each program member will contribute to the final compilation through creative and technical suggestions.
§ At the end of the year, program members will perform in a concert featuring the original songs developed for the album.
Action Steps
§ We will arrange meetings with musical acts playing on campus. We will learn about the music business first hand from these experienced musicians.
All program members must contribute to the album in some way.
Action Steps
§ Program members who do not play a musical instrument will play an essential role in mixing and producing the album. Their ears and opinions will be of value. This position is equally as important as the musicians’. At the end of the year, every program member will walk away with a notable contribution to the project.
§ We will rotate roles as much as possible to ensure that every program member understands the entire process of creating an album.
Community
Service
Program members will perform in small groups at the living and learning center open mic to share their progress with the L&L community. Our self produced album will be used in fundraising for various charities.