Author Archives: Catherine Lu

Reflecting on this UOS, I’ve learned a lot about technology, and how I can use them in a classroom. There is so much to explore in each topic and it provides lots of ideas for music lesson plans. The favorite skill I’m taking away from this course is video making, and Soundtrap. (I had funContinue reading “A little conclusion”

So, the topic is about mashing beats? Well I first successfully made a simple beat in soundtrap and importing one of the audio from Royals by Lorde. Everything seemed to run quite smoothly until I downloaded Ableton Live…. there are SO MANY BUTTONS. Here is a few seconds of beats I made on sound trap,Continue reading “Beats and Ableton”

So this is my attempt in mixing two songs… I’ve used sound trap to do this, I guess sound trap is the easier way to do simple remixing, where as the other software Ableton is more advanced. I didn’t have too much trouble playing with sound trap as we’ve done quite some work with soundContinue reading “Bad Guy/Bored Billie.E Remix”

This video will be about “how to brush your cat”. (the cheat way)The goals is to include different angle shots, embedding audio or voice overs and screen recordings! (in my case I’ve used screenshots instead) Please excuse my room!!! I’m moving next Saturday so the house is a MESS!! James talked about lighting and angleContinue reading “More Videos!!”

So about eBooks, so far I’ve looked at iBook Author, InDesign, and Tumult Hype. for InDesign, I’ve had experience working for a Chinese newspaper, and i did most of the things with InDesign, it was then printed as a hard copy, and it was also available as a digital copy online. However unlike the otherContinue reading “eBooks and more”

Never knew coding could be related to music, well you can do both on Sonic Pi. My understanding is the coding(names) will determine which sound will be playing and the number determine the pitch and rhythm. It automatically loops, which sounds great!! I think this will be a very interesting program for high schoolers! HoweverContinue reading “Coding AND music?”

In another unit, we explored using Reaper to make music for a scene in West world. its a competition held by West world’s film producers. Wish lots of technical obstacles on the way, I’ve managed to do make the first few seconds of the clip.. however, I’ve gained my self an entire library full ofContinue reading “What is Reaper?”

So this week was about music notation software, this includes, Muse Score, Sibelius, Note flight and Finale etc. I’ve chosen to use muse score as it is the FREE version of Sibelius! Using Musescore, I’ve re-created an ensemble arrangement for a stage 5 class. They will be playing “Howl’s Moving Castle” by Joe Hashish. thisContinue reading “Musescore-ing”

This is a digital artwork Jes and I made for children, it aims to introduce children to instruments families of Woodwind, Strings and Percussion. Instruments presented will be provided with Fun Facts and audio. We’ve also created a story line, where Tiantain the main character will be searching for his “Dream Instrument”. There is alsoContinue reading “What Instrument will Taintian Pick?”

Today we learned how to make videos in Tech class, I realized that to make a good quality video a lot of high-end specs are needed, with limited material I will present you The Park Near My House.  PS. initially, I wanted to make videos of my cat but she wasn’t very keen to beContinue reading “The Movie (:”