Freedom of Speech debate

What is freedom of speech?

https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/human-rights/free-speech-and-protest




What do YOU think?

EXP - logging your process/reflections

You need to log your progress, talk about the process and reflect regularly throughout the project.  In order to do this in a helpful way and in a way that hits the high grade criteria, you may want to ask yourself these questions each week:

• What did I do this week? Why did I focus on this and how has it helped my project?

• What challenges did I face? How did I overcome them?

• What went well?

• Where there any surprises? How do I feel about the process and my project so far?

• Did I achieve what I set out to this week? If not, how might this affect my project?

• What is my plan for next week?

When it comes to evidencing this, you can do it however works best for you.

Audio - you can use voice memos on your phone as you go then join them up or have one session using Logic to audio record.  Upload this to sound cloud or similar and embed into your project folder or blog if you have set one up for this.

Video - you can keep a video diary and embed this via YouTube each week - at the end of your project you could simply present this as a play list if you want it to be a bit neater.

Text - you can handwritten or type a more traditional log and evidence this on your project - just make sure we can read it if it's handwritten! You can start a new blog for your project if you like or keep it as a series of google docs/files. If you type notes into your phone you can export this.

If you are having to change your plans somewhat because of this blasted virus, talk about it in these reflections. Thankfully, your qualification is al about process, evaluation, adapting and creating rather than exams so it is possible to turn this to your advantage!

Charlie Hebdo

In January 2015, there was a shooting in Paris that caused the world to re-examine freedom of speech and expression.


translations of Charlie Hebdo covers



TASK: Use the resources below as a starting point to research the following key questions.

• What is Charlie Hebdo and what is it about?
• Who is claiming responsibility for the shootings?
• Why did they attack?
• What was it about Charlie Hebdo that caused such offence?
• Do you think the incident broke Freedom of Expression laws?
• Do you think the shootings were an act of terrorism or protest?
• What do YOU think about the whole situation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting
Liberty, Freedom of Speech & Protest
Guardian, Freedom of Expression
Guardian, Salman Rushdi's opinion
The Telegraph, is Charlie Hebdo that clever?
The Independent, George Galloway's opinion

What 'Je Suis Charlie' has become
Charlie Hebdo site
Charlie Hebdo attack wiki
The killers
Secularism in France
Reactions to the first issue after the attack

KEY WORDS/PEOPLE

Charlie Hebdo
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Expression
Satire/satirical
Terrorism
Protest
Laicite

UK satire examples:

Private Eye (UK satirical political magazine)

Starting your research

 Thinking about your project, what might you need to research and where might you start?

Some suggestions are:

Academic articles

News/music magazines

Podcasts

Interviews

Documentaries

Surveys

Books

Music

Practical experimentation

YouTube tutorials

TASK:

Make a list of the areas you think you will need to research and select at least 4 suitable types of source. From these 4, find one example of a source.

ie.

Project - creating a multi-sensory EP

Things to research - 

4D performance

How our senses work

Synaesthesia

How senses have been incorporated into music before....

Sources-

Academic article 

Survey 

News/magazine reviews 

Practical experiments

Example-

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01352/full

citation: 

Velasco, C., Balboa, D., Marmolejo-Ramos, F. and Spence, C. (2014). Crossmodal effect of music and odor pleasantness on olfactory quality perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 5.

Blog for dissertations and EXPs

Keith and I have started to create a new blog with a wide range of articles (industry and academic) and some specific academic skills info to help you with these big projects. Rather than labels, you can search using key words such as 'feminism', 'electronic'....

https://westkingmusicacademic.blogspot.co.uk/

podcasts as research sources

Here is a list of some podcasts that may be of interest....

Sound Matters - all about sound

soundcheck - interviews with creators

stopGOstop - field recordings and sound art

Sound Perspective - film music

soundworks - sound design

music student 101 - overall musicianship and working in industry

MPCs/Production performance

Today we looked at MPCs (Music Production Centers/Controllers) and how they are used.

STEMS: https://www.stems-music.com/

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/stems/

Task:
What are MPCs?
What are the differences between the main makers (Akai/Novation/Native Instruments) and controllers (MPC60/3000/2000/Maschine/Launchpad/Traktor/Stems?
What are the functions and how are they different from drum machines?

What new ways are producers and DJs able to perform?
Find some wide ranging artist examples.
What software is available and how interchangeable is it?

Post your research to MPCs on classroom as you will need to refer back to it for your assignment.

Je Suis Charlie? Intro to project

 What is happening in the world that you feel strongly against? Does it affect you directly? Does that matter? What do you do if you see that something that is happening is just wrong? What are you going to do about it?

Who is Greta Thunberg? What has she been doing?

Interview with Afrikan Boy about his recent involvement in the 'Jungle' in Calais.

Task: find out what 'Je Suis Charlie' means and why people adopted it as an avatar on social media for a time.

vocal effects

Vocoder

 

Auto-tune (as an effect, not to cover up poor tuning!)

Pitch changing

Doubling

Backing vocals

Effects units:

https://www.roland.com/uk/products/vt-3/

https://www.tc-helicon.com/tchelicon/product?modelCode=P0DLT

TASK:

How might you use vocal effects in your music? Can you double the vocal line? Do your own BVs? Pitch change? Delay? Reverb?