[HackerspaceSG] Help needed for an idea of a music-based startup!
Seow Yi Zhe
This is my first message here, and I've just joined recently but I like the wit and ideas going around here already. =D
I'm personally a music geek, who's a geek about everything surrounding music. I've been teaching jazz and music appreciation for slightly over a year now and see great results when people learn how to appreciate music before they even start to play music. I wanted to bring this not only to musicians, but people of all walks of life with a twist. I realised after learning much about music therapy and the effects of sound, educating everyone in a particular direction through music will increase awareness of such effects and allow people to choose what they want to affect them and how the soundscape should affect them. Also, I want to use this as an initiation for some people to start conversations with one another, as well as increase topics for business networkers and singles to really discuss upon because it really reflects upon character and values. I'm hoping to create a startup where music education is promoted as a basis for self-enrichment and networking.
How would I be doing this?
I'll be using music from my home-ground, jazz, as well as many other music like classical, hip hop, r&b, funk and other non-mainstream music (due to "new exposure" factor) to illustrate the power and ideas of different music. I'll be using methods for people to experience music in a different way from before (active listening). I'll be getting everyone to share their ideas and feelings about the music and to create conversation topics through such means. As the world of music and sound is so vast, I don't believe that it is possible to run out of idea and opinions for them. This will hopefully stimulate conversations and connection between people.
In another session I'll actually be getting the same people to start utilising what they've learnt from listening to actually use small percussion instruments to create music. They will be paired or grouped up to create different sounds and will be recorded. The music will also be sent to them thereafter for them to hear their own works. =)
An important point I would like to add, is that I'm hoping to create community of educated music lovers who can share their experiences and favourite music with one another can create a market for live music as well as to create connections for people who have difficulty with other fields. I'll also be providing resources and aids for people who are interested in taking up music after the workshop. Personal belief is that the effects of the workshop will be to speed up the learning process of many of these individuals.
I'd like to ask for feedback and feasibility of the idea. And I would like to ask whether there is anyone here who's worked with SDU before as I do want to pitch this idea to SDU. I hope for positive ideas, but would also love for some devil's advocates because I need to know how to really change my programme's style and marketing to really suit the market so people would come and actually enjoy the workshops.
Thank you for all your time and ideas! Looking forward. =D
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With best regards,
Seow Yi Zhe
Jason Ong
You could hold a workshop in Hackerspace and we'll be your guinea
pigs. Test, feedback and improve. :)
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JasonOng
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Chew Lin Kay
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On 23-Oct-2010 11:43 AM, "Jason Ong" <velv...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey man
You could hold a workshop in Hackerspace and we'll be your guinea
pigs. Test, feedback and improve. :)
On Saturday, October 23, 2010, Seow Yi Zhe <crazy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
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> This ...
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Cheers,
JasonOng
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Ariff Munshi
anyway, could i pitch too?? ive working on an audio startup too.
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> Hey man
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> You could hold a workshop in Hackerspace and we'll be your guinea
> pigs. Test, feedback and improve. :)
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Seow Yi Zhe
Meng Weng Wong
> Share more!!! =D
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Can I suggest we schedule a Music show-and-tell evening at HSG one of these days? You, Ariff, and chordica.com could present. If you guys negotiate an evening that's free on hackerspace.sg/calendar/ we can just do it.
Speaking of show-and-tell evenings, tonight's theme will be Biotech. We're expecting a couple of speakers to talk about three or four startups. It'll be crowded so come early, maybe 6:30.
I just realized it might be possible to use the stairs as an overflow area, if we set up a video projector on the door, but feed it from a videocamera just upstairs, lol. That way the cigar club can watch the show without interrupting the puffing.
Joash Chee
Joash
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Seow Yi Zhe
Sounds good. Hehehe let's do this Joash!
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Ariff Munshi
I'll try to get another of my friend who is working on another music
idea to come.
Tamás Herman
i would be interested too.
i don't talk much about music in hackerspace and sadly i
dont listen to much music either nowadays, but im a music
lover. my younger brother is a photographer - pianist.
my fater was playing the organ in the local church when
he was young. i was collecting folk wind instruments and
learning how to play them at a basic level. i have collected
140G of jazz, folk, progressive rock, classical etc etc music
in the days of napster and cd rental. i have even made a
wind-midi instrument at home. i was playing around with
sheet music generator software. i was learning irish jigs
from abc format files. digitize tapes and run noise reduction
on them with cooledit and later with gramofile. i thought
my girlfriend how to read a spectrogram. she is doing
language documentation, forensic linguistics and many
other crazy stuff with praat and perl (as an aftermath ;)
i miss those day. would be nice to revive things a bit...
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tom