"Remember the Chicago Bomb scare of 2007? Cartoon Network hired a private contractor to place Lite-Brite Mooninites around the city as part of a viral marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theatres. Mistaken for bombs, the city panicked and the contractor was promptly arrested. So I guess that's what I was going for here. But yes, this track draws its mood from the mixture of something innocent mistaken for something deadly. Lite-Brite. Boom."
Richard McCready is Director of Music Technology at River Hill High School, in Howard County, Maryland. Mr. McCready also serves the county school district in a resource capacity, helping other teachers to implement music technology in their schools. Mr. McCready has been a teacher for 20 years and has enjoyed each wave of music technology in teaching, from 4-track cassette-tape recorders to today's powerful DAWs and virtual instruments.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
One of my student's compositions - Mike Furst (aka Charlie Kilo)
Mike has entered this composition in the Ableton Summer Music Challenge. Please listen to it the whole way through - the more times it gets played, the more chance Mike has to get through to the next part of the Music Challenge. Here's his own program note:
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