Day 1: Ira

 Today was the first day of our 2 week long Art of music and DJing Mterm! The whole morning was led by a guest speaker and music producer, Mr. Hiram, he is a music producer and was an incredibly good guest speaker, check out his soundcloud here. Mr. Hiram taught us some basics about the programs we were using, as well as showing us some of what he does on a daily basis. After that we did some practice and made some musical compositions to test out our skills. Overall it was a very straightforward and enjoyable day. The pictures below are some photos of the students trying out the music software by making some simple beats.

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