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Avid Pro Tools Production Software has been the industry standard for over 10 years while many other competitors keep the game interesting, the professional studios still prefer to work with Pro Tool music production files.

Avid Pro Tools Production Software has been the industry standard for over 10 years while many other competitors keep the game interesting, the professional studios still prefer to work with Pro Tool music production files.

The world's best-selling music notation software. Sibelius is the easy way to write, refine, hear, scan and print beautiful scores. This is incredibly helpful in the classroom for anything that relates to sheet music.

I have used GIMP for years. It is a really powerful image program. But it does have a learning curve, that is well worth climbing. From their website: " It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X."

Interesting, I actually have this on my computer and never paid any attention to it...I will now!

I recently stumbled upon the University of New Mexico's interdisciplinary program in Art + Technology. They describe it as such. " The program fosters an atmosphere of radical creativity and thoughtful engagement with emergent and established technologies. Students are expected to make work that comments on, engages with, and expands our notions of what technology based art can be through courses that explore high tech immersive environments alongside consumer electronic hacking and simple analog circuit building. Labs are equipped with industry standard software as well as free open source analogous software options. Studio production is coupled with critical inquiry into the relationship between art, technology, politics, society and culture."

Drat! The link no longer links! Grrr If you find this again would you re-post? Thanks!

Shane Hope is a talented mixed media artist that is exploring the relationship between his art and new technology. He uses a 3D printer to create molecular-like scale canvases which he then paints. Very intricate work! I thought this was appropriate because we discussed 3D printers in one of the last units!

A video and discussion of a software used to take 'snapshots' from movie scenes. Once compiled, each movie has a unique 'fingerprint'. Strangely enough, many of the fingerprints resemble the over all feeling of the film. I particularly liked 'Alien'.

An interesting look at what sculptors are able to create using computers.

The link has some good arguments. I think digital sculpting has it's place, especially with 3D printing, although the featured software, Zbrush isn't cheap, even for an academic license.

This is a link to a scholarly paper about the dance.draw program from UNC Charlotte. This work is supported by an NSF CreativeIT Award#IIS-0855882 grant. The program is a marriage of technology and dance. The dancers are tracked by cameras or gyro devices that they carry on their person. The software then uses the dancers information to change display information behind the stage and or modify audible information. http://dancedraw.uncc.edu/DanceDraw/Dance.Draw.html

This is really intriguing. I have longed to do something like this with music, translating scores into visual images, so that you see patterns, colors and textures. I haven't read the paper yet, but I will. Also, I find it interesting that this is happening at UNCC. I have a house in Charlotte. I am only temporally in Memphis. Over the years I have done a lot of work with UNCC, and I know several people in the dance department, but I had not heard about this project.

The GUI has been redesigned with a great new look and many time-saving enhancements! The Toolbars and Song Title Area have been redone, and the chord sheet now has a "Real" looking handwritten font for chords. We've added UserTracks. Now you can make your own RealTracks to add to your song.

I think this is kind of cool tool, it gives a new look to music and is a way to customize your work a little. Saves time.

I purchased this software several years ago and found it interesting. The RealTracks sounded clean and followed my chord and time changes as good as could be as expected for a computer program. Sadly, my computer was not powerful enough to run the program without it jamming/freezing/lagging. I think with a proper computer system, a lot of time, and some creativity you could produce a pretty professional backing track for gigging out or creating your own studio tracks without the help of other musicians.

Blog from Carnegie Mellon University's Research Center of the Master of Arts Management Program. Provides reviews, how-to's, and general information on software systems, MOOC's, assistive technology, and many other types of technology that would be useful for arts managers.

Audacity is a multi-track audio editor and recorder in the same vein as pro-tools, but free to use for Windows, Mac, Linux. Music tracks can be edited individually, mixed and exported in multiple file types.

Create your own whiteboard video (like those by RSA and AsapSCIENCE) without having to be a great artist. VideoScribe does all the work for you. There is a free trial you can use to test out the software before you purchase a subscription.

"Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes except iPhone, iPod touch and nano 6G). Floola Desktop is another freeware application to manage your local PC music library. Both are standalone applications that do not need installation and run underLinux (any GTK2 distro), Mac OS X (10.4 or newer!)" --I have used Floola to retrieve music files off of an old ipod that itunes would not allow me to use the music from. If anyone else has had this frustrating problem, Floola is your friend. It also allows you to use your ipod like an external hard drive and drag and drop files to and from it...no syncing necessary.

Software for video, audio, image converting and editing. Support all popular formats and devices. This is a subscription ( paid ) service. It is pretty easy to use and has many different tools available.

Filmora is free, well-reviewed editing software that is easy to use. Here is the tutorial on how and you can find the download with a quick Google search. Have fun!