User:Arte Walton

Bio
hello my name is arthur lawrence walton i was born in renton and grew up in a place called grapeview washington. much of how i am today i can directly relate to my childhood. i view myself as a very laid back and easy going individual. i grew up with the puget sound as my front yard and have probably spent more time in and on the water than any one that i know. growing up playing sports year round as a child was a great experience for me and turned me into a great athelete. my favorite sport was always soccer since i wa about four years old. i even played soccer in colloge for a little while. all of the training i received in traditional sports is what really got me ready for all the other sports that i really love today. such as wakeboarding, surfing, skateboarding, rock climbing, and so on. from these sports i draw much of my personality from. for example rock climbing is all about a challenge to yourself, you either do it or you fail, and when you control your own success you almost never fail. this has a small drawback when it comes to school however because i dont really feel a personal challenge so i dont really try that hard, but i have been doing my best to turn that view around. anyway so i am an adrenaline junky but very laid back, i view myself as a visionary because i am always the one who has the ideas in my circles of friends and work. i am a musician and never satisfied with my ability at any instrument, even though i get compliments, i just think yeah it might sound cool to you but wait till you hear so and so then youll know waht real music is. i am also an avid non christian, well non religion not just christianity. i honestly believe that if it wasnt for religion the world would be a much better place. when you think about all the death and destruction that comes from loving god it makes me want to throw up all over a giant statue of jesus. as much as i hate religion i do nderstand that there are certain people who need a crutch, but believing in the any denomination of god is a little bit of a stretch for anyone with a fully functioning brain. anyway now im in the audio program at the art institute really working hard on my music and trying to produce all styles of music even genres in which i would not have until recently given a chance at all. in conclusion i gues i would label myself as the next evolution of the human mind.

Always Wanted To Schedule

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by the end of this class i would like to complete a midi composition using fruity loops and reason to create an instrumental. my main idea for this is that i would like to try the idea of instead of using a kick drum or an 808 hit as my main down beat i would like to try to use a marching band snare drum using different rhythms in and out of a drum roll.
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 * week 4

continue to sample sounds for other instruments contained in the piece such as a brass and string section.
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by now i will have all my drum rolls laid out and a basic layout of horns and bass.
 * week 6

tighten the whole thing up making sure that my instruments all follow the rhythm of the snare which is my lead instrument in the piece.
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lay down guitar tracks and vocals if i think it is necessary. in this step i might also add a dub step feel to it if i think i can pull it off through a digital cd-j mixer.
 * week 8

have final copy of session ripped to a two track on a cd or flash drive to turn in.

Why Do I Like What I Like?
for this assignment i am going to choose the big type writer eraser thingy that faces elliot ave. i have alwaysthought of this piece as less than art. my view aas of now of this piece is that yes building a really big version of something that is originally much smaller is very hard i understand that. the art aspect im not too sure about, i think of it in the same way that someone might think of an architect as an artist, creating a beautiful building out of nothing, but then the contractor who builds the building for the architect is just a construction and no art is involved. this may not necessarily be my view but i think it is a very accurate assumption of the views of a majority of people. so while the construction is very precise and difficult process the art is what someone put down on the paper, or the art will be the building when its done but simply building is not most would say.