Open Music Initiative

Last Friday members of the Yale OMI gave a workshop where participants went to three different stations featuring different electronic instruments. They got to experiment with those instruments and then make recordings of them to include in the first OMI Sample Pack which will be on GitHub soon.

After Yale’s Spring Break, anyone interested will meet up for a “beats battle” to show off what they did with the sample pack. For those who haven’t every sequenced audio before there will be a learning session featuring Ardour where they can learn how to sequence samples, adjust amplitude, spectral edit, change pitch, add FX, and more.

Be sure to follow us on Discord for updates about events!

https://discord.gg/MRuWRG95YR

To say the past year has been challenging is a massive understatement. A lot of folks, myself included, went into survival mode, focusing on only the most immediate and pressing things (like graduating or taking care of children.) Still, OMI did a few things. This site (such as it is) was one of them. We also started a Discord channel, a Notion.so page, and had a few remote synth jams to boot!

Needless to say we are all looking forward to in-person events – to gathering, workshopping, and making music together. Until then, we will be amassing ideas for precisely *what* to workshop and what kind of music we want to make. If you have ideas, use the contact page or the Discord channel to let us know. Better yet, join OMI and help us directly!

In the meanwhile, please stay healthy and keep making music.