DMC Sound Recording Technology Program does it, again! Enjoy! (Videos)
Article by DMC CRO Media Relations and Dr. Paul Bissell
The Del Mar College (DMC) Music Department’s Dr. Paul Bissell, Professor of Music and Director of the Sound Recording Technology Program, gathered past and present Music students, faculty and community members for a recording session on Saturday, Nov. 9, for some studio fun on the Heritage Campus.
Dr. Bissell says that the first song, “Do It Again,” by Steely Dan “was to be the sound track of an ‘art project’ I have had in my mind for a while. I wanted the paintings and murals that I like to magically come to life and interact with the music. Thus, a crash course in motion graphics…and a dedication to Mike Anzaldúa.”
The late Anzaldúa, Professor Emeritus of English, was a beloved faculty member with the College’s English & Philosophy Department who passed away in December 2012 and was considered DMC’s Plato or Socrates as an educator, leader, advisor and friend. “Mike” was very involved with the College’s chapter of the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education as well as the establishment of the Mexican American Studies degree program.
Of the first video, Dr. Bissell says, “The Chicano movement of the 1960 and70s influenced artists and musicians alike. Steely Dan’s ‘Do It Again’ clearly shows how two jazz guys from New York took in the sounds and happenings coming out of Los Angeles in 1970.”
He notes that the second song, “Kodachrome” by Paul Simon, is a quick and simple classic from 1973.
“Here, too, is the influence of culture so evident,” he says. “For this recording, quintessential New Yorker Paul Simon recorded in both Malaco and Muscle Shoals sound studios in Mississippi and Alabama, respectively, and it sounds like it.”
Dr. Bissell notes that there’s nothing fancy about the second video … it’s “just showing the band playing Take 2.”
And, if you want to learn more about Del Mar College’s Sound Recording Technology Program, visit www.delmar.edu/SRT.
Enjoy! (Click on each video to expand and play in a pop-up box.)
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