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TransMedia Sound & Music Production

(click on the site section devoted to Andy Wasserman's company TransMedia Sound & Music for more in-depth information)

• Custom soundtracks: music, audio & MIDI for all digital media
• Audio Pre/Post Production; Music for Radio, TV, Film, Multimedia
• PCM / DAT / Macintosh Digital Editing and Analog Recording
• MIDI Instrumentation Network with Full SMPTE Synchronization
• 24 track Digital Recording; Mastering for CD and Cassette
• Sound Design and Custom Editing of Sound Effects
• Huge Sound EFX Collection, Sound Libraries for Samplers & Synths
• Sound design and custom editing of sound effects
• General Recording Studio Services: On-Site and Remote Location
• Ethnic Instruments: World Music from Asia, Africa, S. America
• Mastering for CD and Cassette
• Digital Music Instruction and educational resources

Instruments: Ancient & Future

Andy Wasserman has the audience travel through time, combining a virtual cornucopia of computerized music technology alongside ethnic instruments from around the world to illustrate where music has been and where it is going.

Connections between instruments past and present are explained and demonstrated using synthesizer keyboards, digital samplers, electronic drums, and a laptop computer. Volunteers from the audience get numerous opportunities during the show to join a "world beat" jam using both acoustic and electronic instruments, including participation in the creation of a musical soundtrack for an imaginary movie. Andy Wasserman has been presenting Instruments: Ancient & Future since 1990. This program may be booked independently or as a follow-up show to Making Music From Around The World.

This is an original Arts-in-Education Program created, produced and performed by Andy Wasserman. Primarily designed for Schools, Libraries, Multicultural Festivals, Family Events and Special Needs Populations.

Music Profession Career Seminars

Andy Wasserman gives seminars and private lessons to prepare students for jobs as professional musicians in many areas of today's marketplace.

Some of the courses of study and preparations for further study at colleges and universities include:

1) The Scoring for TV, video, film and radio lessons offer the student an opportunity to develop the necessary skills to compose and edit music for film and video by interweaving advanced music skills, technical proficiency and dramatic interpretation.

2) The Music Production and Engineering curriculum gives the student extensive hands-on training in studios equipped to meet professional standards. Working with fellow student musicians and faculty members in the recording studio, program participants will become familiar with the principles and practices of engineering and creative production techniques necessary to meet the challenges of changing technology and future stylistic genres. Learning to adapt to the role of producer and/or engineer, students develop the interpersonal skills needed to guide each project through the recording process to all participants' satisfaction.

3) Sound Design curriculum explores the world of electronic sound creation and manipulation and offers the opportunity to build a portfolio of original synthesized or processed sounds for a variety of musical situations and instrumental combinations. Classes will give an introduction to the nature of sound and the software tools which allow the sound designer to create their magic. This aspect of the training is designed to take the student through all the steps a professional sound designer goes through in the process of creating and editing sound for everything from video games to motion pictures.

4) Digital Music for Multimedia curriculum teaches the fundamentals of audio production for CD-ROM, DVD and the Web, and includes introductions to video and programming concepts that will enable the student to work collaboratively with other multimedia professionals. Courses teach fundamental music and audio skills in the vast field known as multimedia. Andy Wasserman will present the fundamental building blocks of multimedia from the standpoint of music and sound recording and interactive media design.

5) Computer Music curriculum emphasizes computer programming skills and their application toward innovation in sound design, performance and composition.

6) The Recording Studio and Production experience provides students an intense, comprehensive and well-rounded education in fundamental areas of a basic audio curriculum. The program will cover analog recording, digital recording, computerized music, sound for film and television, the entertainment business, the audio engineer's role, studio maintenance and an introduction to music-for- video production.

7) Digital Audio Workstation Engineering lessons will introduce this technology and its use in all aspects of digital audio workstation recording including music, sound effects and dialog editing. Students are trained in the basic elements of computer technology as they relate to analog-to-digital conversion, digital imaging, and sound for music and visual post production. These elements are applied in a nonlinear, tapeless recording environment.

8) The Studio Recording Engineering curriculum is designed to introduce basic recording principles and techniques. Beginning with an introduction to recording industry careers, students are taught the principles of sound, the operation of studio equipment and protocol for the jobs found in recording environments. Labs are held in a a studio setting in order to provide a universal understanding of basic audio recording. Wasserman teaches students the principals and techniques for creating professional recordings. Students learn the specialized techniques used in audio and post productions. Learn to record and mix from an artistic point of view. Classes and hands-on studio experiences will encompasses techniques taught in all other classes bringing the artist out of every digital musician.

9) MIDI Courses : Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is the electronic marriage of music and computer technology that has revolutionized music composition, recording and arrangement. Students will be introduced to the history of the MIDI concept, its basic principles and techniques, MIDI production values, tapeless recording, MIDI effects, synchronization, troubleshooting and design of MIDI systems, and the effect of MIDI on the modern recording engineer/musician. Students learn how to interface computers with musical instruments for recording and live performance applications. See Workshops in MIDI section above.

10) Music Performance for Studio Production and Scoring curriculum will develop a musician's instrumental approach to covering the fundamentals of music production. Students break down music to its individual instrumental parts, in order to understand the art of producing sounds. Students will be encouraged to participate in playing instruments for class assignments. Applying the music production techniques. Students actively create and produce musical parts to form a mix. Extensive overdubbing situations push the student to new musical awareness. Building the firm understanding of the writing and aural recognition of notation, intervals, scales, chords and basic harmony provides a solid foundations for all other concepts taught. Creation and perception of musical tones, string, wind, percussion and electronic instruments from an acoustic view. Emphasis will be on listening and each instrument's role in the group setting as well as practical ensemble playing skills such as time keeping, cues, balance and dynamics. How these skills translate from the acoustic to electronic mediums (i.e. - digital sampling, synthesis, wave form modeling, etc.)

"Beat of the Blue Planet" Interactive CD-ROM

Design, content, and Interface Development by Andy Wasserman from 1993-1995 for Virtual Entertainment of Needham, MA, (Richard Viard & Jeff Pucci, the creators of Composer Quest, the very first MPC multimedia title ever created). Beat of the Blue Planet was contracted by publisher Opcode Interactive, a division of Opcode Systems-the leading developer of music and music education software-for CD-ROM mass market distribution and sales worldwide.

Wasserman's responsibilities included:

• Co-author of design document and final specification;
• extensive contribution of intellectual property determining product subject matter and specification content;
• created/compiled/edited and pre-mastering of all field work and research;
• researcher and author of all text files;
• coordinator of all contributing artist contacts, recordings & copyright clearance waivers;
• production of audio & video recording; videotape & camera work;
• provide all photography (camera shoot & developing) of over 130 traditional ethnic acoustic instruments used for graphics;
• composer-arranger-performer of theme music score and all "World Jam" MIDI files, record and mix all soundtracks;
• compilation and research of all instrument making projects;
• perform voice-overs;
• record-edit-mix all text narration voice-overs spots, all incidental music &sound EFX.
  
  ---HERE IS A BRIEF OVERVIEW TABLE OF THE CONTENTS---

WORLD JAM SECTION : 30 musical styles to play by triggering sampled motifs of authentic world instruments on computer keyboard (no external MIDI devices needed)

U-BUILD-IT SECTION : 26 instrument making projects with step-by-step make & play guide; link to traditional ethnic instruments

REFERENCE SECTION : complete glossary, bibliography, resource guide, on-line help, extensive custom search-engine

all material copyright 1995 Andy Wasserman-TransMedia Sound & Music, Virtual Entertainment, Inc., and Opcode Interactive, Inc.