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May 2005

• Original student compositions mp3 are now online for each class. MS Music Studio and HS Music Composition.

May 2003

• Live recordings of our Commissioned Centennial Compositions, Daruma Festival March and Tsuki-Yume-Ko Japanese Choral Suite. 

September 2002

• Choral Practice page  Kanto Plain and International Honor Choir 2001 Audition files for your practice. Also find links to our most visit our most recent World Composition  Project.

June 2001

• Choral Practice page  Kanto Plain and International Honor Choir 2001 Audition files for your summer practice. Yes. There is a desperate need for a site upgrade.

December 12, 2000

• Choral Practice page has updated Kanto Plain Honor Choir Audition files and a new FAQ for your help.

October 25, 2000

• Just added the brand new Choral Practice page, innovative practice tools for note learning at home. The page is raw but the stuff is there!  More details later.

October 2000

• Collaborative World Music now includes our latest composition projects.

November 1, 1998

• We look forward to a pre-millennium upgrade soon but for now enjoy two beautiful pieces by our student composers, Looking into the Future and Delayed Guitar.

October 20, 1997

• Yes we still have that same old fashioned 1996 look, but check out the new mini songs from the Music Composition class in Net Soundz. Our curriculum is the same but we are beginning to move to software based tools, particularly MOTU's Freestyle. More details and examples later .

June 13, 1997

• No report since December? I guess we were just having too much fun making music to hack out that html this spring. And now it's summer.

  One of the biggest deals in the ASIJ Music Studio this year was the pressing our own cds. Very cool. Each high school comp student now receives digital memory of their musical adventures. If you are interested in buying a disk or learning more about how to burn your own, drop me a note.

  Midi really came into it's own this year on the web and has become a standard feature on many sites with lots of plugins to support it. This spring Andreas Sundquist's piano solo, Revolution on the Inside, was noticed on our original compositions section and is now part of Fred Casselman's beautifulEarth Echo under Works in Progress. Look for the Clouds image. Definitely worth a visit.

  We also continue to experiment with our friends around the world, co-composing songs via the net. Is cybersong a word?

  And, yes, you noticed, it is time for a major Music Studio web site overhaul, it just looks so dated, so Spring of '96. Other than a few fixes on the Hot List it will just have to wait until fall. Because I'm going to tie some flies and hit the stream.

  Ja ne.

Dec 17, 1996

• Just added a first draft variation to our world comp project. We are really enjoying the use of midi on the web with plug-ins Crescendo! and MidPlug, or even just with Netscape 3.

November 27, 1996

• New year and new composers. We have begun another co-composition project with our friends in Germany and around the world. This time melody is the thing and local culture is the theme. The Music Comp classes have created a new batch of Net Soundz, those bite size audio files for your enjoyment. Gramma look here first. Netscape 3 now has built in midi and audio support, and plays all these files right from the browser, though you may still want to experiment with the flexibility of Crescendo.

June 14, 1996

• School's out for the summer! And the last dash to update these pages is over. Note the many beautiful midi compositions now available and if you get a chance drop by Tokyo Eyes for lots of new photos of Japan. We look forward to many new musical and cyber adventures next year, but for now, you will have to find me on the stream.

  Ja ne.

June 6, 1996

• We are excited to debut many new student pieces on our Composition site. The page is redesigned and includes music and photos from our Junior Summit project as well as our co-comp project with kids in Germany and Australia. As exciting as these adventures have been, I am also most impressed with the original sounds coming from individual young composers here in our Music Comp class at ASIJ. These GM midi pieces posted take advantage of the new plug in, Crescendo, which allows you to play right from your browser. There is still some confusion about reading the correct voice number when using Quicktime on Macs but the songs sound awesome when using a sound card. Of course, you can still download the files and play them through your favorite sound box. I love the wide variety of styles from these young composers.

May 23, 1996

• Our Hot List is smoking hot and reformated. So many links, so little time. Note the useful midi and sound sites as well as our Internet/International composing friends.

May 21, 1996

• Our music pages are now Crescendo embedded and musically enhanced! (Kind of nice for a music site to finally have music.) You do not need an external synthesizer. Crescendo is a Netscape or Microsoft browser plug-in that accesses the Quicktime 2.0 sounds on a Mac or a sound card on a PC. Embedded files play automatically or click on one of our midi file links to hear what you have been missing. This is great.
  More site upgrades soon.

January 26, 1996

• We have some brand new NetSoundz up on our Original Compositions page. They are "aiff" files that should play on all platforms with the right sound player (try Tools) We tried a lower sampling rate this time to make the download fast.

October 31, 1995

• We are off to the Junior Summit tomorrow to practice the song that we wrote with kids from around the world. Visit our Composition Page to hear and see our theme song for the Summit, Stand Up!
• Lots of new hot stuff on the Hot List. Don't miss Toad the Wet Sproket's site.
• All of our pages have been redesigned to be elegant but fast.

October 19, 1995

• We are back but I have been too swamped with the real life of school to be able to get our virtual music world caught up. The middle school music composition students are currently writing music with kids from around the world for the GII Junior Summit in November. We are also working on a world compsition with some of the same schools with which we developed Tokyo Neon. More soon.

June 16, 1995.

We've been working hard trying to make these midi files easy for you to download. There may still be a few gliches but Midi Typer does seem to fix them. This morning I played Alex's Revival using Quicktime Midi Player and it worked! No external sound modules were needed. Very slick.
• Some fall goals include refining our Midi delivery system, getting midi files to play without external sound modules (using Quicktime Player for Mac and sound cards for DOS), and much more composing with our friends around the world using midi files and CU-SeeMe. We'd like to see these projects culminate with some live performances and even the dreamed and hoped for "Live World Wide Internet Midi Jam." If that is not enough, stay tuned for new multi-media projects from the advanced composition kids.
• School is out for the summer! Enjoy yourselves and we'll be back making music at the end of August. If you e-mail I will get it, so write if you can.. Hope you have as good a summer as we will. Ja ne.

June 14, 1995.

• We've begun a Tool Box and Help Page with pointers to sound utilities for both Mac and Dos as well as some hints for html programing.
• Huber has forced his way on to the web again with Tokyo Eyes. It has nothing to do with music, just a lot of cool photos. Maybe he'll compose a soundtrack for them.

June 9, 1995.

Check out these new additions to our web site.

• Lots of new songs are on our Music Comp page. More short Net Soundz from both high school and middle school musicians and now full length General Midi songs including our almost world famous Tokyo Neon, co-composed with kids from around the world.
• Our Hot List is especially hot these days, smoking musically speaking.

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