http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpn8thEGbE

My song

https://soundcloud.com/b3b2b1/verse

Ict project: GarageBand

GarageBand ict project

For my ict project I have decided to explore the way in which music an it's industry is moving into a digital age.

There are two parts to my project, firstly using some musical background knowledge I have I managed to use digital instruments on my iPad to compose a short song. This was surprisingly not as difficult as it seems as the app is very well set out in several chords so it is easy to make a chord progression. It is also well set out to record real instruments which you can edit. The way in which you can also build several tracks on top of eachother  creating a whole sound. I learnt to use this mainly through looking up the problems I encountered on google and finding several tutorials on youtube allowing me to do more advanced stuff. The main problem I had was with the amount of instruments; you could only have 9 tracks at any one time. I overcame this by learning how to merge tracks in another youtube tutorial. I chose this project because I play guitar and I enjoy creating music. GarageBand was a way for me to do this much easier and to a more advanced degree. Overall the project took me around 4 hours, but I'm sure if you made the song longer and added vocals and real instruments it would have taken alot longer.

Fencing
Fencing is a sport i first started when i was in year 5. Many people probably don't know a lot about the sport so I want to give you an insight on the sport I love.
Fencing is a unique sport and laboursly going through all of the technical basics you quickly get the feel for the sport. It is different mainly because if the feel of being in a fight. With the adrenaline pumping it makes you feel vulnerable at first and it also makes you want to win.
As you improve as a fencer, it becomes more and more technical. It becomes less of a mad attempt to hit the opponent and more of anticipating what the opponent is going to do and planning which attack should be used. I strongly advise you to start fencing. (more to come...)

Notes on the connected world video.

WIRED are making massive advancements in `Medical technology such as sensors which monitor data coming from the body allowing us to live healthier and optimizing our medical outcome.
Ivy league universities are putting video's out allowing everyone to have access to this wonderful array of knowledge. Why should we settle for the teachers at our school when we can have the best teachers for each subject from around the globe.
On the brink of a networked society, in 1994 internet in San Francisco was taking off. A lot of companies starting investing and made a lot of money.
.com crash meant fortunes were lost over night.
Sound Cloud shares music across the web. Music industry huge destructive phase. Physical-digital.
CCP games MMO. Idea of digital currencies Facebook 3d world. Mobile entertainment.
57% more talk online than in real life.
48% of 18-34 year olds check Facebook first thing in the morning.
1/6 married couples met online.
8-18 year olds spend more than 7.5 hours a day with their mobile device.
Apliences over the internet. Crop monitors which tweet to indicate need for water or light.
Giving feed-back from consumer to creator.
Assisted living.

These memes are halarious