Music 119 (2025) – Final Project Instructions
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Music 119 (2025) – Final Project Instructions
Assigned: February 26th, 2025
Due: April 12th, 2025 by 9:00am. (late work will not be accepted without a compelling extension request made before the deadline)
Value: 20% of final grade
Introductions
You have now all learned about (and will conInue to learn about) various aspects of music technology in this course, and completed various assignments and tests to prove both your theoreIcal and pracIcal understanding of the fundamental concepts we have covered. The final project is an opportunity to apply what you have learned in a more creaIve context, relaIng directly to using technology to create music.
Instruc7ons
The final project may be completed individually, or in groups of up to four people. As more members are added to a group, there is a natural advantage in terms of available temporal and human resources, and we would expect to see that reflected within the work handed in.
You are to create a piece of recorded music, between 2min and 4min in length. The music may be an original composiIon, or an arrangement of a cover song / piece of music by another composer. Your mulItrack recording should contain at least 4 different musical elements (for example: drum kit; synth pad; pitched wine glasses; saxophone).
At least one of the elements within your recording must have been recorded with one or more microphones, i.e., an acousIc instrument, voice, amplified instrument (e.g., electric guitar through an amp), field recording, etc.
At least one of the elements within your recording must have been creaIng using a virtual instrument within a DAW, with the MIDI informaIon being captured via a MIDI input device (like a MIDI keyboard), hand-wriVen into the MIDI editor, or other methods.
Using samples is permissible, but should be presented in a way that is demonstrably creaIve. For example, don’t just loop a famous drum break.
Absolutely no musical components of this project may be created using genera7ve AI. If your music has vocals, and you want to let AI write you some robo-lyrics, be my guest.
We want you to succeed and make great projects that will be awesome to listen to and easy to grade (because they are so great), so please make use of the <me being allo=ed for this project to come up with good ideas and ask us ques<ons as necessary.
Deliverables:
Please upload the following to Canvas:
1) The final mix of your project, as a single stereo wave file, 48kHz/16bit resoluIon. The file should be normalized (I would suggest a peak level of -0.5dB). Please name the file using this convenIon:
“first name.last name.student number.Music 119 Final Project.wav”
2) A PDF containing: your name and the names of any other group members. The Itle of your project. A list of the musical elements contained within the project, and how each was captured or created (e.g., “1) Drums: recorded with 6 microphones; Bass: recorded with a DI; Strings: Super Hollywood Strings virtual instrument;” etc.). A screenshot of your edit window, zoomed to show the complete song, and all of the tracks within. A screenshot of your mixer window (we understand that depending on the # of tracks in your project, they may not all be able to be displayed with a single screenshot).
For those working in groups, please all submit the same audio and same PDF individually to Canvas. Each group member should rename the audio file to conform with the above convenIon.
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