CLASSMATES SITES~ 1. Domenica's: I love her homepage with the picture. I think it is very abstract and beautiful, and the colors compliment her colorscheme in the webpage. I also enjoy her Flash animation with the text, and how she varies it throughout different links. The vertical text is really cool too, as is the use of flash paper for her resume. 2. Danby's: Her color scheme is also very beautiful, and the banner with the rain at the top of the page is awesome. My only comment on the banner for improvement is that the white text is a bit hard to read against some of the raindrops, but perhaps is she just moved the text up a bit away from some of the drops it would be more legible. I also wish that her name were on the top of the page, too, so we know the person doing the website. 3. Maria's: Although it's anything but simple, it looks simple and elegant. The colors are clean, the text clear, and the navigation smooth. Especially impressive is her use of streaming audio so that the view knows the mp3 is on its way, rather than thinking that it didn't load. I would like there to be a gallery or photos link to see her play-that's the one thing I would suggest she add. Good work everyone!!

THOUGHTS ON THE COURSE... I felt the strongest features of this class were being able to go indepth into many software applications. Being taught Flash and Dreamweaver, two programs that are very hard to learn on one's own, was an extremely valuable asset that will help me extensively down the road. And having the website up and started is absolutely fantastic!!! I'm thrilled this is a product of the course. Although it's hard to fit anymore into an already busy class syllabus, I would have liked to do an intro to Fireworks and Contribute because they came in the package sold at the NYU bookstore and I don't know too much about what they do.

Before submitting my website for job consideration, however, there are several things I'd like to improve on my website: Within the "about" page, I'd like to have to separate popup windows, one being a traditional resume, the other being my bio. The opening animation in flash is a little off with timing- I think it takes too long to load. Within the "photos" page I need to create another window with navigation bars that enable the viewer to scroll through more pictures. As it is now, there is only room for 3 pics because they are loaded onto the main page. Same thing goes for the schedule page-because there is no separate window there isn't room to load all of my concerts coming up. I'd love to have a "past performances" section as well. In the "Listen" page, I ran into a bunch of problems with the Flash buttons. I've successfully loaded soundfiles and published them before, but when trying to do this page I kept getting a "syntax error" form. Tried for hours to figure it out, but no luck yet! I'll keep trying! Once I tidy these up a bit, I'd also like to work out a few timeline issues within the whole webpage to make it flow more. Over the next few months I'd love to further my knowledge of Dreamweaver and Flash to produce more elaborate websites in a more time efficient manner: I think this will be well worth the effort in furthering my ability for PR and marketing for my life as a performer.

Thoughts on my website... I have learned so much from doing this project! Building a website is something I've always wanted to do, as it is such a useful tool for the modern musician. As a performer, I have had to complete many an audition packet and deal with printing resumes, burning CDs, mailing lables, postoffices... now that I'm working towards an "electronic press kit" I can say goodbye to the hassle of hard copy mailing. There are so many jobs, auditions, and clubs that recommend applying online, and now I can fulfill all of their application requirements with a few clicks of some Flash buttons!

Yeaa jazz flute! One of my goals in my study at NYU is to pursue performance of various genres of music. In my search for interdiciplinary study here at NYU, I have found inspiration in our dear jazz flute friend...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faAjN7u6zhU

So I have recently discovered the joys of rice milk. i've always been a dedicated dairy girl (mostly skim or 2%) but i had no idea that "milk" made from grains of rice that comes in a box could be so delicious. apparently there are various types of rice beverage goodness: almond, vanilla, chocolate... the list goes on. i hope to one day have tried them all.

Hello! As of late my technology focus has been geared towards composition using electronics, both pre-recorded and live manipulation of live sound. I wrote and premiered my first composition at Carnegie Hall a few weeks ago. It is for flute and bass (played by the fabulous Eleonore Oppenheim) and digital delay, looping, and distortion pedals. At the beginning of the piece, I created an ambient drone on f by having the flute and bass sound feed into separate distortion pedals, which in turn went into a the delay/looping pedal Line6. After recording the live sound into the Line6, I began a cycle of 14 second playback over which we played long, slow, and somewhat creepy melodies. All in all, it was a fantastic experience and I feel I've grown tremendously as a musician by beginning to write! Now all l have to do is get a clip of the piece (called "Fracture," by the way) up online! Over and out.

all consuming recital

well the past few weeks have been super crazy in preparation for my recital coming up. after show i really need to spend some super quality time with flash... i wish i could have had video at recital, but carnegie is all union and there wasn't the time to set up. so sad! gotta go :)

post Decaisa performance

Hello~ It's been a bit since my last blog- last week I played in a production of Michael Gordon and Bill Morrison's "Decasia" with the TACTUS ensemble. It was a great time, but with six shows in three days it was quite hectic! I really enjoyed playing in multi-media production again-I hope to be able to again soon! Off to practice flute-

first blog!

Hello~ It is the first day of class and I have a blog. yeaaa!! Over and out.