Decibels Week 4 #IMPMOOC

Good lesson this week, about dangerous levels of noise and the difference between Decibels and Decibals sound pressure level:
https://class.coursera.org/musicproduction-001/lecture/125

Introduction to Music Production - week 3

In week 3 of the Coursera #IMPMOOC the basics for the signal flow in a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) were covered. As an assignment I chose "Practical : how to make a submix". In order to make within a mix one can make submixes, assign them to a different track to be able to control for instance 10 individual tracks of a drumkit with one fader. For this week I made a Word document explaining the Mix in a Mix concept, within Cubase. A Word and PDF versions can be found on Google Docs. My assignments for week 1 and 2 I made in the form of a youtube clip, that you can see here: http://youtu.be/jZrig5JJT_I: "Add a software instrument and record MIDI and quantize in your DAW. Including preparing the track(s), adding the instrument, setting the click and countoff, and recording efficiently."

"visualize sound with the freeware program Audacity" http://youtu.be/wHjv9fXJzcc.

first week Assignment #IMPMOOC

For the Introduction to Music Production MOOC of Berklee College I made this clip. I used AVS video editor, and made a screencast of Audacity and the different options there are in this freeware audio editing program to look at sounds.





Looking forward to see other people's products. Here are some examples:

• http://prorecording.org/blog/2013/03/how-to-record-a-guitar-and-amp/ A blogpost by Kasey Patola
• A youtube contribution by Constadinos Papadakis
• A screencast made by J.P. McAllister http://www.screencast.com/t/cgLBhCiq0rl
• A youtube contribution from India by Rajiv Vaidyanathan
• a clip with humour from Greece Yannis Momtsios

Hearing test on-line: sensitivity, equal loudness contours and audiometry

In one of the Forums on #IMPMOOC (there the forums seem to be a bit deeper and therefor more diffictult to navigate than in #EDCMOOC) I stumbled upon this link http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html
given by Eugene Yakshin in Lectures /Week 1 /Frequency / Know your loudness contours. On that page you can test your hearing and map your frequency response. here is mine:

Next MOOC - #IMPMOOC

Just got connected to the social platforms for #IMPMOOC - introduction to music production from Berklee college and saw the welcoming video by Loudon Stearns.

Results of #EDCMOOC

Saw the results of the assessment details today. Very inspiring. For me this form of online education has been quite interesting. The fact that there was a team of teachers of which no-one was a 'star' professor - was the bonus and guarantee of keeping it human.

. As a librarian I wonder how MOOCs will evolve and how librarians will get involved. In the case of the Edinburgh EDCMOOC I could imagine librarians will try to find long lasting, sustainable access to the literature presented. What will the role of publishers be, and what will happen with individual contracts between teacher/authors, universities and publishers? Superficially one could say, this is only about money, but on another level also about academic freedom and independence of the teacher is central director, producer of the education.