Keeping Learning and Being Creative

I love working on this project because we are doing a creative practice of my interest—music.   Our project is building a water fountain music visualizer that responding to the music in real-time. There are three main stages of our design and building process. First stage is brainstorming and making designs. The second stage is working…

Remixing and Composing Music

Today, I am going to introduce two of my music creative practices. The first piece that I want to introduce is a remixing work that I have done years ago.  I am a big fan of Joe Hisaishi, a Japanese composer and musical director, therefore, I chose one of his work Summer to do the remixing….

Two Initial Ideas–Shan Ding

Use some fun shaped lights like above, and insert musical notes sensor into each of them. Those lights only light up when its note sensor detects its indicate note. For example, we arrange those lights into a square, and divide this square into 4 equally area, which is A(green), B(yellow), C(blue) and D(purple). We set…

Shan Ding — Introduction

I am Shan Ding, a senior in computer science. This is my last semester at Virginia Tech, and I hope I will enjoy it. BTW, I love cats! I take this course because I think I can do something related to music(at least maybe). I play guitar and a little bit of piano. This summer,…