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Music Assignment

Dubstep: I would add Bassnectar to this category. They use a heavy amount of technology in their songs, creating the beats electronically. They also include sound bites from various sources, which are electronically edited to change their pitch, speed, and other factors. Bassnectar began creating music in the 90s, releasing his first album in 2001, after becoming deeply involved in the electronic music scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRftXCiqfQ8 Nineties: I would add Smash Mouth to this category. Their most well-known song “All Star” features the use of electronic instruments. The music video for the song contains a modified version of the song, with an intro, sound effects, and dialogue to set the tone of the video in a comedic way. The video also contains special effects in terms of the visuals. This song was posted to Youtube in 2009 and has nearly 200 million views to date. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E Punk: I would add The Offspring to this ...
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Vacuum Tube essay

The vacuum tube played a key role in the development of radios, televisions, and computers. The purpose of a vacuum tube is to control the flow of electrons. This can be used to amplify a current, work as a switch, and with the invention of the cathode-ray tube, display an image. The amplification of current allowed radios to receive a signal broadcast from miles away and amplify it for us to hear. Vacuum tubes were also used in the first computers as on/off switches, to perform calculations. Televisions were made possible by a variation of the vacuum tube, the cathode-ray tube. This tube contains multiple anodes, which attract electrons. One focuses the electrons, and one accelerates them, causing them to collide with the phosphor coated screen, which glows to create the images seen on the first TVs. Now knowing about this, it is interesting to think about the TVs in my house when I was younger and compare them to the liquid retina display I am typing this on, tha...
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This year, it has been hard for me to get into the Christmas Spirit and look forward to the holiday as much as I did in the past. I’m not sure what has caused this, so I decided to focus on an unusual depiction of Christmas. I took some inspiration from horror Christmas movies like Krampus, but this does not have any historical context. Once I got into designing the costume and set, I began planning it in my head as if it were a brief segment from a horror movie - or a haunted house promo.
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