That is the date I started working on my project with the Mixcraft 8 Digital Audio Workstation software.   After I downloaded the free trial software and opened up the program, I kind of had to take a second for myself haha.  I had virtually no experience with any sort of digital editing equipment, I took a digital art class sophomore year of High School and that is the extent of my knowledge, besides a few forays into the iPad app version of Garage band.

Instead of blundering through the program, which for me has a surprisingly well result rate when I do that, I decided to resort to watching some guy on the internet explain the basics of using the program.  So, I loaded up you tube and looked for “Mixcraft 8 Tutorial” and watched the first one to pop up.  This allowed me to stumble through the first minutes of my song composing experience relatively painlessly enough, and by around the 20 minute mark I was actually enjoying myself.

Going into the project I knew that I wanted to experiment in mashing the essential sounds of several, non obviously compatible, genres.  I though back to our discussions on genres and what happens when you totally remap a song to a totally non-obvious choice, like — one of my favorite analogies of the class — Guns and Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine.”  We saw how the meaning to the words changed when the whole osng was re-performed to the genre of mid-’30s or so swing dance, and that was kind of my jumping off point for what I wanted to do.

I found the whole experience with DAW enjoyable, and came up with some conclusions that I, at least, think are noteworthy about the identities of music, which can be found in my final analysis paper of the experience!