Self Reflection

It is amazing that how many computer programs I have learned throughout the semester. These are the programs that I now know how to use:

Garageband, iTune, and Audacity for sound
Gif builder Carbon, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, and Aperture for image and animation.
iMovie for movie
Finale for music notation.

These softwares and web-making will definitely allow me 1) to teach children more effectively and efficiently with sound, image, and movie, and 2) to grow more as a musician. I will continue to explore these programs and web-making so that I can provide more effective lessons for my students. Also, I will spend more time learning how to use Audacity for editing the sound and will soon start learning Logic Studio and protool for recording, mixing, and mastering so that I can produce my own album independently. Moreover, I will explore more about movie-making and its sound so that I can connect sound with image (or connect image with sound) and learn more from its collaboration. Lastly, I strongly believe that these technologies and media will enhance connection and communication with people in different parts of the world.

My Final Project

You can visit my final project at www.learningforfun.net
I made this website with iWeb of Mac for both elementary and secondary students who are just beginning the guitar, music-making, movie-making, photography, and Korean.

I used a variety of programs for the site to communicate with the user: Audacity for sound, Aperture and Adobe photoshop CS 5 for images, and iMovie for movies. I wish that this site help many students improve their guitar, making music, making movie, photography, and Korean.

Flash

I was first uncomfortable learning Adobe Flash because
I had no experience working on it and it seemed to be very complicated.

After Dr. Yen's lecture on the program, I just tried it to see how it goes.
It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

These are the steps I follow for creating a flash animation:

1. open the flash -> create New: Action Script 2.0
2. Change FPS to 12.00 frames per second
3. choose the rectangle tool on the menu on the left hand side and create a shape on the stage and then click on the select tool on the menu on the left hand side.
4. Go to "Modify" menu and "covert to symbol" and select "Movie Clip"
5. select on 30th clips and go to "Insert"
6. change the location for the new location and may change the size
7. select the frame in between
8. control button and click "Classic Tween"

For text

1. choose "T" and font style
2. Write and color the word
3. Modify menu-> Break Apart-> Modify menu, timeline, distribute to layer
4. Select the final frame-> insert, timeline, keyframe
5. do the same thing for the rest.
6. Control and mouse "Classic Tween" between the frames

Work on the individual letter

6. select the frames, insert, timeline, keyframe, and move the letter and design it the way I want
7. Control and mouse "Classic Tween" between the frames


Import a piece of image and a clip of music to the flash
File, import, import to library, choose the image and music

Create a new layer and drag & drop the image on the background
-go to modify menu and "Convert to Symbol" and Type"Movie Clip"

-Create a new layer for music.
1. First frame, Insert menu--> timeline--> Key frame, and click on sound (Property menu)
2. on Property, go to sync, chose "Start"
3. Publish: go to file, publish setting, Check Flash (.swf) & HTML (.html), choose the location to save the files, and publish the files.(Hit the publish button in the desk top)

Photo

Photography is the one I feel most strong. I have been taking pictures and have done my own exhibition a number of times.

Photography is from Greek, which means to drawing a picture with light. Thus, the first thing that I do when I edit the image is adjusting the luminance of the photo. Andthen, using the channel mixer, I change the image to Black and white. The reason I use the channel mixer instead of just mere black and white menu is that the mixer gives more detail work so that I can work more seriously on the gray scale which is the essence of the black and white image.

Once I finished working on the luminance and black & white process, I move onto the cropping and filtering if necessary, then resize the image. The last thing I do before putting the image on the web or print the image is sharpening. Sharpening is extremely important especially when you print the image. It gives better the contour and looks more focused.

music notation program "Finale 2009"

I have had "Finale 2009" for few years but
I was so lazy to use it and I also I was kinda reluctant to use it because It seemed to be very hard and I had trouble writing basic things such as different voices, rehearsal marks, and dynamics.

The most trouble I had when I first used it years ago was writing music in different voices. I wanted to stem different directions according to their voice parts, but
because I did not know that I was required select different layers for different parts.

After learning Finale in the class and doing the assignment, I feel more confident and I am willing to write music with Finale in the future.

A video for Noah Lee

This is my second video assignment for the class.
I am becoming a father this February and I dedicate this video to my beautiful son, Noah Lee.

My wife Joanne and I as parents try to provide a variety of experience for Noah while getting ready to be born. We often go out and visit many places such as museums, live clubs, and parks. In the video, we visited MoMa NYC where we enjoyed diverse art works by many great artists. I hope Noah appreciated all these arts and enjoyed the day.

I filmed with JVC HD camera and edited with iMovie.
Music was recorded in Vancouver, BC on November 5, 2010 with Garageband.
Jon Lee on Guitar; Kenn Nakamine on Bass

Just finished creating "musique concrete"

I've just completed my musique concrete site.
https://files.nyu.edu/sjl457/public/concrete.html

It was fun doing it.
Before working on the tracks, I had to know exactly what I wanted and needed to do and
organize audio and image files accordingly.
Planning is the key for this assignment.

I have found that Audacity is a user-friendly program.
It easily allows the user to cut and paste the track, to modify the track with a variety of effect such as phaser, delay, EQ, amplification, normalization, and more.

It will help me a lot when I record a rehearsal for an ensemble and mix down the tracks.

New picture

I have decided to change the picture for the tech page..
https://files.nyu.edu/sjl457/public/tech.html

How do you like it?
Does it fit to the background color?
Does it look fine in general?

trip to rosario.mov

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Video Assignment

It love travelling all around the world, and I am eager to learn and experience different cultures in the context of their own cultures, not from our Western or typical English perspective. Also, it means a lot for me to perform music in different cultural settings and with and/or for people from non-English cultures. Travelling and performing music with different musicians in different cultures has always led me to think and learn something that I have never encountered or experienced; it makes me expand my musical and cultural spectrum.

My Argentino friend Martin Nemcovsky and I went to Rosario, Argentina last August. We performed jazz with tremendous musicians there at a number of different venues. I learned so much about Argentinian culture and tradition by living and interacting the musicians and their families and friends. Despite living in the same continent (North and South America), it is amazing that how they are different from us in terms of music, life-style, philosophy, politics, society, and culture.

I am planning to visit Argentina again next summer and perform music with more musicians at more diverse venues there. Also, I am scheduled to visit and perform with my Canadian, Japanese, and Argentino friends at several places in my home town, Seoul which is one of the most dynamic and vibrant cities in terms of art and technology. Would you like to join us? Please do so.. Everyone is welcome to join the trip :) I can't wait to learn and experience so much stuff next summer

This video was created with photos that I took during my trip to Argentina, except those that are fighting for democracia. I edited them with iMovie 06, using a variety of transitional effects, fonts for text, and video effects. iMovie 06 was straight and easy to use. I had fun creating and editing the video! Hope you enjoy the video...!!!

Music was recorded in Vancouver, BC in October, 2009. Jon Lee (guitar), Peter Kim (bass), Kevin Romain (drums)

animation.gif

I've just finished my animation and music.
Please check out the site:
https://files.nyu.edu/sjl457/public/animation.html

I have always wondering how those animation pictures are created.
Now, I know it is GIF.

I am using a program called "the GIF builder carbon," which
you can download from http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/235/gifbuilder

It is very easy to use.
You can simply drag and drop images that you want to animate.
GifBuilder lets you control pixel depth, the color palette,
dithering, size, interlacing, transparency, interframe delay,
disposal method, frames position, and looping.

It may sound a bit complicated.
But, once I tried, I found that it is very easy to use and
create animation files.

Creating webpages by html

I've been simply making and posting websites by using iWeb of Mac.
However, I did not know what html files are about.

This is great that I learn how to do with html, and how websites are created.

As a novice web-maker, I had difficulty understanding
the concept of the file in the beginning,
but as I work and create a variety of webpages with html,
I am now familiar with html and feel very confident.


please visit my website that I have created:
https://files.nyu.edu/sjl457/public/index.html

my bio...

Jon Lee is a professional guitarist, music educator, and photographer. He was born in Seoul, Korea and moved to Vancouver, Canada at the age of 14. He has been working as a musician, music educator, and photographer in Canada and many places around the globe. He has recently moved to New York City for performing music, teaching music, studying privately with Randy Johnston, and completing his master’s degree at New York University.


He first began learning and playing classical music on the piano at the age of 10, and swiched his instrument to the guitar when he was 12. He started his first band with hardrock and performed at many places in the early 90s. For professional musical development, Jon Lee moved to Boston, MA and studied Jazz composition & arranging at Berklee College of Music. Also, he studied Jazz guitar privately with a number of internationally renowned musicians and faculty memebers at Berklee and New York University, such as John Wilkins, Richie Hart, and Randy Johnston. He is largely influenced by many legendary musicians in Boston and New York City and plays music based on Jazz and Blues.


After returning to Vancouver, Canada, Jon Lee attended Capilano University and served as a teaching assistant for music theory and ear training classes of professor Linda Falls. After majoring in music education at the University of British Columbia, he taught music at public schools in Delta School District, BC, Canada.


As a performer, Jon Lee has played with a number of internationally renown musicians like Bob Mintzer, Jimmy Greene, Kurt Elling, and Hugh Fraser, at a variety of venues around the world, including Berklee performance center, CBC radio, Chan center of UBC, Wall center, El cacol, Jazzycues, Cellar jazz, Plaza of nations, Prophouse cafe, Cafe Monmartre, and Yri-cafe in Seoul, Korea. Recently, he finished his tour in Argentina with Martin Nemcovsky, Esteban Maxera, and Alvaro Manzaero.


As an educator, Jon Lee taught music at public schools in Canada for several years. He directed concert & jazz bands and guitar programs from K to 12 in Delta school district, Canada. Also, he directed all the guitar program that Delta School district offers every spring and summer. He is associated with a number of professional music organizations: MENC, IAJE, CMEA, and BCMEA. He is a dedicated music educator and provides students with a safe, fun, and enjoyable learning environment. Currently, he teaches music at Paul Pope School in West Orange, NJ.


Furthermore, Jon Lee had written weekly music columns for Chosunilbo, one of the major Korean journals from 2002 to 2009. He covered issues on music and music education. Also, he critiqued many records from Pop to Jazz. Additionally, Jon Lee has involved in photography. He takes pictures from portrait to landscape. His photography focuses on aestheticism and communication with viewers. He pursues images with arstistic, philosophical, social, and political messages that often appeal to the viewer.




“Jazz cannot be limited by definitions or by rules. Jazz is above all, a total freedom to express oneself.”


Duke Ellington

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