Friday, September 25, 2009

Discussion on our selection of G302 Project

Date: 25 September 2009 (Friday)
Time: 2pm - 3.30pm
Venue: RP Library near clavinova keyboard
Team members present: Zachary, Joyce, Chun Kiat, Shirley, Hui Zhi
Advisor - Ting Hsiang: Present

1.Objectives:
- To discuss and decide about our choice of G302 project topic

  • Live event of original music compositions
  • Asian Virtual Instrument: Staff initiated project brief, funded by TOTE board Singapore
2. Production/Project Notes: -none-

3. Minutes of Meeting:

Live event of original music compositions

Pointers:
- Able to showcase our passion in music composition, creatively and uniquely - Chamber Music
- Not all team members are strong in music composition
- After graduation, we can still continue and fulfil this as part of our interest.

Asian Virtual Instrument

Pointers:
- Benefits us greatly in our CV as it's a TOTE board funded project
- We'll be working with big names in the audio industries like Digidesign, manufacturer of ProTools, Structure.
- The virtual instrument will be either sold/distributed to the rest of the world by Digidesign as part of the project deal.
- We can still work on our music compositions with the use of our gamelan patches, after we complete it.
- Everyone can have a fair share of work done.
- Once we graduate, many equipments and software are not easily accessible to us and we'll not be able to sharpen our skills on structure and virtualizing instruments.

4. Research Materials: -none-

5. The meeting ahead: 8 October (Thursday)
- To meet up with Ting Hsiang about the Asian Virtual Instrument Project Brief proposal, and about our plans ahead.

6. Reflection/Comments:
- Final result: We decided to work on the topic of Asian Virtual Instrument