15 Minutes of . . .

Dan Thibeault

I believe the world is a great place, with good people, doing awesome things. I am also very interested in the people I meet. I have crossed paths with so many that are living such interesting lives, and I want to share their stories.

Episodes

  1. 11/05/2024

    Owen Flanagan UML Digital Media Major

    It’s been a while but I still believe that the world is a great place with good people doing awesome things. And I’ve had a lot of really cool experiences in the last few years. Teaching has become, if not the most interesting, the most rewarding thing that I’ve done in quite a while so far has a 65 year old guy faced with the prospect of interacting and working with today’s Gen Z, they range from the ages of 18 to 24 years old. I was prepared for a variety of stereotypes that the media in general, and even a lot of my family and friends told me to get ready for, and those were things like frail, emotional egos and people who are glued to their cell phones and can’t pay attention, can’t make friends that they don’t read, and in general demand instant gratification, all that stuff, but in my experience, I found it to be quite the opposite. And my guest today is a great example of this, as a teenager, somebody sticks a box of electronics in front of him. He figures out how to use it, how to interface it with a computer and make music with it, and then he learns all the software programs necessary to produce music, to produce music well and publish that music in a variety of places. Then comes to college as a digital media major, lands up my class, an Intro to Audio Production course and knows just as much as me, if not more. Owen, like many of his classmates, are some of the most industrious, intelligent, and kind people I have met, and this bodes well for all of us in our future!

    18 min
  2. 09/11/2020

    Solo Guitarist Scott Ouellette

    Scott Ouellette is a self-taught classical/solo guitarist living on the east coast of the United States. Scott first began playing the guitar at age 7, mostly strumming chords to Fleetwood Mac, Jim Croce and the Eagles. He soon discovered the sounds of Andres Segovia, Christopher Parkening and Konrad Ragossnig. Not having a teacher available, he used the recordings of classical guitarists as his guide, and taught himself how to read music during the process. By the age of 16, Scott had already graced the stage of The Palladium in New York, performed on television, and was performing professionally. After graduating high school, Scott was accepted to Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts where he studied guitar performance and theory. Scott would spend the next twenty years developing his compositional skills, creating teaching methods for beginner, intermediate and advanced guitar students, as well as building his online presence through the internet. Scott currently composes modern solo guitar music for nylon string guitar. He also arranges popular music for solo guitar as well, and creates videos for YouTube. His original music has been recorded by guitarists in many parts of the world. He can be found performing in local concert halls and smaller, more intimate venues. Learn more about him at his links: https://souellettegtr.wixsite.com/scott-ouellette,    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCASpUKjQVcDBxJYFHng0YeA,     https://souellettegtr.wixsite.com/guitar-transcribing/about Music in this episode, “Cullare la Tempesta” and “Taj” composed and performed live in the Fast Twitch Media studio by Scott Ouellette. If you know of someone that would be a great guest on this series, please reach out to me, Dan Thibeault at dan@fasttwitchmedia.space or go to my website to see what I am creating! https://fasttwitch.wixsite.com/fast

    22 min
5
out of 5
10 Ratings

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I believe the world is a great place, with good people, doing awesome things. I am also very interested in the people I meet. I have crossed paths with so many that are living such interesting lives, and I want to share their stories.