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A Cinnamon GIrl is Born
Columbia Academy recording students don't spend hours in classrooms - they learn by doing. Here's a example of that philosophy in action.
Over three days, CA Recording Arts instructor, Harland Giesbrecht, played all of the instruments and sang on this cover of the great Neil Young song, Cinnamon Girl, teaching a group of students just two weeks into the program how to professionally record each track. It turned out great and everyone was real proud of the result. Mixed by fellow instructor, Kyhan Smith. Check it out. (Note: picture is not from this session, but hey, nobody thought to take one and we had to have something in here, right?)
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A Montage of RSD Student Projects - Recording & Sound Design Career Training
Students of Columbia Academy's Recording & Sound Design program work on all kinds of real projects in many different musical styles.
This video montage features a variety of performances from Rap and Hip-Hop, to Latin, to African, to straight up Rock - all projects recording at Columbia Academy.
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Backstage Pass Kia Kadiri
Backstage Pass was a unique and exciting project for Columbia Academy students in all three dvisions. CA Video & Film Production students created and produced seven, half hour television episodes of a new music profile series. The series aired on Shaw TV in Vancouver.
CA Recording & Sound Design students recorded all of the live music and interviews to a ProTools recording rig and later edited and mixed the episodes for television. CA Video & Film students videotaped the episodes using eight cameras and a production mobile donated by Shaw TV.
Host of the series was CA Broadcast Performing Arts program graduate, Zahra Alani.
This episode featured the incredibly energetic performance of Vancouver artist, Kia Kadiri.
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Brad Hanna's Sound Design Demo Reel
Post Production sound student, Brad Hanna, did something unique for his demo reel project. He took the animated Kanye West music video, "Good Morning", and designed sound for it. The original music video had no sounds on it other than the music. Check out the amazing job he did on this, and, as Brad says, it's just for demo purposes only - so don't sue him (or us)!
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Capade
Recently recording their album, "Wake Me Up", at Columbia Academy, was the Vancouver-based rock band Capade.
Capade features the strong hooks and memorable lyrics of singer/songwriter Nikola Tucakov on acoustic guitar and piano, Jeff Scharf with a traditional funk rhythm on the electric guitar, dub powerhouse Ali Siadat on drums, and a thick energetic groove from David Spidel on bass.
Engineering was Columbia Academy Recording & Sound Design student, Parlange. Assistant Engineer was CA RSD student Blake Jones.
Check out the band's website at: www.capademusic.com.
http://www.capademusic.com
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Cheek
Recently recording & mixing tracks with recording students at Columbia Academy was the unique Vancouver, BC band, Cheek. Cheek is an imaginative fusion of funk, hip-hop and jazz, featuring: Dorian Brown, Emily Roop, Geoff Alexander, Edward Perkins, Denham Trollip, Dan Hersog & Addie Perkins.
Check out the band's website at: www.cheekmusic.com.
http://www.cheekmusic.com
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Electronic Music Production Demo Tracks
Students enrolled in our Recording & Sound Design program have the option of working with well known Vancouver hip-hop Producer, and Columbia Academy grad, Cody Aalo Guha, to study more in-depth the capabilities of Reason® and Pro Tools®. The tracks in this clip were recorded, produced and written between January & June, 2008, and were created in Reason® and mixed with Pro Tools®.
Students involved as Producers were: Jorge Barroso, Esteban Diaz, Kelvin Smoler, Karlo Mercado, and Alex Wah-Shee.
Students involved as Recording Artists: Esteban Diaz, Kelvin Smoler, Matt Szoo, and Alex Wah-Shee.
Students involved as Engineers: Jorge Barroso, Curtis Dengler, Esteban Diaz, Karlo Mercado, Kelvin Smoler, Matt Szoo, Brigette Taylor, and Alex Wah-Shee.
Instructor: Cody Aalo Guha. (Pictured: Kelvin Smoler)
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John Wood
RSD student John Wood has been hard at work since arriving at Columbia Academy learning and honing his skills on the new recording technology.
John has been busy recording his own original material, including this Pink Floyd-influenced track, "The Lonely Road", on which John played most of the instruments. (In the photo, John is seated at the console.)
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Language Arts
Interesting music from an interesting band. This song, "Piece of the Pie" was one of several recorded by the students of Columbia Academy's RSD program. The EP was engineered by Columbia Academy Recording & Sound Design student, Matt Dawson.
Check out the band's website at: www.language-arts.net.
http://www.language-arts.net
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Number Four - A Short Film
An excellent example from our Columbia Academy Sound Design post production audio students.
This clip from a short film called Number Four, demonstrates the original sound of what the filmmaker brought in, followed by the completed work of the student sound designers and editors.
RSD students designed and created all of the sounds, replaced the dialogue in studio, and wrote and perfromed the music.
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Sekoya on Backstage Pass
Backstage Pass was a unique and exciting project for Columbia Academy students in all three dvisions. CA Video & Film Production students created and produced seven, half hour television episodes of a new music profile series. The series aired on Shaw TV in Vancouver.
CA Recording & Sound Design students recorded all of the live music and interviews to a ProTools recording rig and later edited and mixed the episodes for television. CA Video & Film students videotaped the episodes using eight cameras and a production mobile donated by Shaw TV.
Host of the series was CA Broadcast Performing Arts program graduate, Zahra Alani.
This episode featured the jazz-funk stylings of the Juno-nominated Vancouver band, Sekoya.
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Smokey Valley Drummers
A short sample taken from a video made for the Smokey Valley Drummers. This was a joint project, involving students from both the Recording division to record the music, and from the Video & Film division to shoot and edit the video.
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Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Another exciting, real world project for students of Columbia Academy.
These musical profiles were created for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra(VSO) as part of their innovative Video Screen Project. The VSO installed large video screens in the Orpheum Theatre in order to provide more value for their patrons, prior to, and during, the symphony performance.
The profiles were produced by CA Video & Film Production students. Sound was recorded and/or created by CA Recording & Sound Design students.
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VOC Soul Gospel Choir
The Vancouver Outreach Community Soul Gospel Choir, directed by Checo Tohomaso, came in to record this beautful track in Columbia Academy's "big room", Studio A.
Lead engineer on the session was RSD instructor, Kyhan Smith.
Check out the band's website at: www.vocsoulgospel.com.
http://www.vocsoulgospel.com
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