Thursday, February 28, 2013
Since I have been straying off of my initial subject of mixing music and math and have fallen in to ranting about time management, I decided to make this post back to the subjects of music and math. I'm actually going to talk about careers that use music and math - something that I doubt I will go in to professionally, but is definitely worth a try. The first and most obvious career is a composer - it takes substantial mathematical talent as well as a terrific musical ear to do well as a composer. In order to do that though, I would have to focus my college studies on music theory rather than engineering, so I highly doubt I will become a professional composer. I could go in to architecture and acoustics and create structures specifically designed to make music sound better. While this is more engineering-focused, sound and waves was one of my least favorite chapters of physics B, so that's not probably my cup of tea. Lastly, I could design and program music-related software. This would go nicely with my current college plans as I am likely to major in compsci or software engineering, and would allow me to work with music. I could write software that reacts to music, edits music, or even creates music. If I was to go into a music-related career, a software-music combination would be the most likely option. However, if I don't go into that profession, a very very likely situation, making music would still make a great hobby.
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Alex I had no idea you were interested into music! I thought you were just going to follow a path of some insane type of engineering. This medium that you have touched upon with music, computer science, and engineering seems really cool, and quite interesting too! I love the various choices that you have already found, and I'm sure you will find more to add to your list of careers. Keep it up!
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