I had a great time creating my song for GarageBand. It was great to explore this program and discover its different facets. I literally spent hours and hours syncing up the sound clips, and monkeying around with the volume, etc. There is enormous creative potential with GrarageBand. Moreover, GarageBand clips could be used in many different ways- from sound effects, to original music, to creating spoken audio.
I was surprised to find little academic studies on GarageBand. There were little to no articles available via Library Literature. I would hope that the future will bring more scholarly research around this type of tool.
In a discussion about GarageBand with a friend, I was told about an interesting way to use it. My friend explained how him and his bandmate ended up living in different cities. To continue to make music, they would send one another their own parts of a song- then one of them would put the parts together to compile the music. I thought that was a pretty cool use of the Library 2.0 tool.
It was an overall good experience for me. It felt good to get my hands on this tool, as I hadn’t worked with it before.
