satkinson – Sean Atkinson

Quest for Zoom Audio Perfection

Warning: This post is not for the faint of heart. After Zoom released a recent update that finally enabled high-fidelity audio, I went on a quest to up my audio…

Space

30 Sep 20161 Oct 2016

This week has been an exciting one for students, faculty, and staff at the TCU School of Music. We had the pleasure of hosting John Corigliano in residency for a…

Time

14 Sep 201614 Sep 2016

My graduate seminar on Music and Meaning has recently been reading Raymond Monelle's chapter "The Temporal Image" from his The Sense of Music , which has me thinking about time. According to…

Overworld music in the time of augmented reality gaming

29 Aug 201631 Aug 2016

It's the age old (well, "old" in terms of video games) question: Can the character I'm controlling in the game hear the music that I'm hearing? When you think of…

Directional Tonality and Wolf

My graduate music analysis class is discussing Wolf's "Mir ward gesagt" in class today. The song starts in a most ambiguous way, seemingly signaling G major before adding a minor…

In-class Song Analysis with Nested Groups

2 Sep 20152 Sep 2015

Sometimes you get so excited about a teaching idea that you just have to share. My Sophomore theory class is embarking on the topic of mode mixture for the next…