{"id":127298,"date":"2022-11-17T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=127298"},"modified":"2022-11-17T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:22:43","slug":"queens-universitys-qwave-allows-anyone-to-make-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/queens-universitys-qwave-allows-anyone-to-make-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Music collective QWave encourages everyone to make music, tries to break down barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen's University's music production collective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theqwave.ca\/\">QWave,<\/a> along with the International Education Conference, hosted a Sound Play event at The Union Gallery yesterday. QWave founder Adam Ben David says it was an opportunity for people to come and create their own music using sounds that already exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA lot of the time it can be kind of frustrating if you don\u2019t play an instrument\u2026if you have this passion for music and you don\u2019t feel like you have an outlet for it, it\u2019s nice to be able to create something of your own...you can come in here with no instruments and create something totally different than what someone else might do two minutes afterword,\" says Ben David.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He the club's mission statement is anyone can make music and that they try to break down barriers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"We recognize finances are a big barrier, instruments can be exorbitantly expensive\u2026through the funding the club gets through our opt out fee we are able to provide these resources for free\u2026we have a studio on campus members are free to use...<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you sign up, you get access right away to free software that\u2019s granted by our sponsors\u2026you get a digital audio work station for free and you can start messing around with sounds for yourself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">QWave also offers tutorials and workshops; the collective is open to Queen\u2019s students and Kingston community members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To learn more, visit QWave's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theqwave.ca\/about?getittt=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CFRC story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen&#8217;s University&#8217;s music production collective QWave, along with the International Education Conference, hosted a Sound Play event at The Union Gallery yesterday. QWave founder Adam Ben David says it was an opportunity for people to come and create their own music using sounds that already exist. \u201cA lot of the time it can be kind&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":127300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,221],"tags":[15090,20811,20812,15637,20813,20810],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127298"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127423,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127298\/revisions\/127423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127298"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=127298"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=127298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}