![]() He spoke about several of the projects in a real-time session during the festival, and he will speak and perform live at A New HOPE hackers' conference in New York City in July, as well. Nearly a dozen students did, and Castillo ended up organizing an entire virtual UML building. While most create their own instruments, both analog and electronic, organizer Sherry Huss was happy to accept digital performances this year because the festival was virtual, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Ĭastillo encouraged students in his Contemporary Electronic Ensemble class to participate in the festival, which debuted the weekend of May 14-15. ![]() “Lavender Town” was among 18 UMass Lowell projects featured at the all-video, online 2022 Maker Music Festival, which drew participants from around the world. ![]() During her second and final semester, she created the video performance “Lavender Town,” which combines elements of her two favorite games – a Pokémon soundtrack linked within Minecraft to a mine cart traveling on rail tracks that trigger different game actions. In her first semester in the ensemble, in fall 2021, she watched, learned and helped with a project. He directs the Contemporary Electronic Ensemble and is starting the new Video Game Ensemble in the fall. “Seeing it visually, seeing how wiring and electronics and machines work, was the biggest takeaway.”Īn image of falling chickens, villagers and cows from a Minecraft musical performance by Music Assoc. “We had to take electrical engineering courses about sound technology, but I didn’t really understand circuitry until we did this hands-on project in Minecraft,” McCumber says. She says the practical experience of synchronizing sounds to video games built on what she had learned in classes required for her major – and gave her a better understanding of electric circuits that will help her in her new career as a sound technician at AudioLink, a company that provides voiceover recording and production services. Ramon Castillo, were creating music videos using Minecraft, she joined up. So when she heard that students in the Music Department’s Contemporary Electronic Ensemble, led by Assoc. Sound recording technology (SRT) major Tess McCumber ’22 grew up playing Pokémon games on her Nintendo DS, and then also became obsessed with the massively popular game Minecraft.
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