ALA Creative Day Jan. 26

Today the two groups came to the museum for the purposes of exploring the music software. The students were given the basics before today. Today's activity is as follows: the students will have about an hour or so to create an original composition from the Acid Pro software. They will be able to use any of the loops and sound effects inside the software, as well as any piece of music they choose to use. There were guidelines given for the use of non-original music to practice their creative process. No explicit lyrical content or objectionable language was allowed - these are also guidelines for anything at their school, so we are keeping in line with what they already know. The students were paired up to work together, and their work was then shared with the rest of the group at the end of the session. Each group's work was saved so that their programs could be analyzed later. One of the project ideas that they may work on in about a week will be the creation of original work just like this, only more involved. Anyone choosing to work with the cameras and editing software must first come up with an original composition that will lend itself to telling a story on film, thus using all of the technology we've used so far. Still others will have the chance to create musical sculptures using crickets and MIDI boards. I will be posting pictures from the past week's work shortly.