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Exploring The Gospel Fusion Arrangements Of The Recording Collective, Tyler Williams
Exploring The Gospel Fusion Arrangements Of The Recording Collective, Tyler Williams
Composition/Recording Projects
Exploring the Gospel Fusion Arrangements of The Recording Collective
The Making Of When We Say Goodnight, Andrew Newman
The Making Of When We Say Goodnight, Andrew Newman
Honors Theses
The following thesis documents the writing and recording of When We Say Goodnight, an album by Lo Noom. The author discusses the various influences that led to the development of the album’s concept. The album is meant to explore the feelings the author associates with summer nights in Mississippi. He attempts to create a world in which the songs and feelings live. He discusses the album’s song development and various recording processes. As he brings the album to completion, a struggle emerges between the author’s desire to please his audience and his desire to create for his own personal enjoyment. …
Memory Management For Game Audio Development, Rahmin Tehrani
Memory Management For Game Audio Development, Rahmin Tehrani
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
Research in managing memory for video game audio development. Interactive music and audio implementation are explored with a strong focus on how to manage data while developing game sound. Some concepts that are important include the multi-use of one sound, file conversion, and randomization in music and audio using technology. Additionally, audio middleware such as Wwise is referenced and strongly used to showcase the previously described concepts. The end of this research project explores the future in video game audio with information relative to the next generation of consoles, video game streaming, physical memory limitations and expansions, and the future …
A Violist In Nashville: The Viola’S Role In The Nashville Recording Industry, Patrick Monnius
A Violist In Nashville: The Viola’S Role In The Nashville Recording Industry, Patrick Monnius
Composition/Recording Projects
The viola, the violins larger and often overlooked sibling, is not the instrument people would typically think of when they think of Nashville. That honor would most likely go to either the fiddle or acoustic guitar. But present day Nashville is home to much more than the Country music that originally gave the city its' famous moniker Music City. The recording scene now encompasses almost every genre of popular music imaginable as well as a large amount of video game, television, and movie recording. Through this project, I attempted to explore the multitude of ways in which viola can be …