I'm unfortunately getting to this a day late, but In this entry, I'll be recounting my media encounters from Monday. I didn't get around to reading a paper in the morning, rather I checked Facebook, where I'm currently connected to various news pages such as NPR and The Huffington Post so I can receive updates from them in my news feed. In class, I took notes off of various PowerPoint slides that my professors presented, which contained mainly text and photographs/illustrations. My music lecture class regularly integrates video and music/audio into class to demonstrate different music styles and characteristics. In yesterday's lesson about opera, we watched video clips from performances of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and the earliest surviving opera, Montverdi's L'Orfeo. After my classes finished on Monday afternoon, I headed up to the KXUA studio in the union to do my weekly hour-long show, which involves various types of audio formats, including CDs that are in the station's heavy/medium/light rotation that week, and my laptop, which I hook up to the soundboard in order to play a few selections of my own as well.
After school, I gathered with a group of musicians at a friends house to rehearse for an upcoming performance. During the rehearsal, we listened to several songs using the popular media player Spotify and tried to decide which ones would work best as cover songs. After returning home, I caught the first half of the 9:00 news on the local Fox station, then got on my laptop and worked on various homework assignments while listening to music through iTunes. After completing my work, I spent the remainder of the evening using the internet recreationally, checking social networking sites such as Facebook and Tumblr.
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