Norberto Olivarria

Instructor for: Guitar, Piano, and Composition

Norberto teaches piano and composition and has an A.A.  Music, A.S. Science and is currently working on a B.A. in Music Composition & Guitar Performance.

Norberto began his musical career at Riverside Community College, where he studied classical guitar and piano.  After obtaining both his A.A. in Music, and A.S. in Science, he transferred to Cal State San Bernardino, where he is currently working on his B.A in both Music Composition, and Guitar Performance. Norberto plans to obtain a Masters Degree in Electronic Music Composition.

Related Ensembles and Directors:

            CSUSB Classical Guitar Ensemble – Stewart Green 

            R.C.C. Classical Guitar Ensemble – Peter Curtis

            R.C.C. Piano Instructor – Jasminka Kenecht and Norma Townsend

Norberto has been studying piano for 12 years, and guitar for 10 years. His primary interest and focus is towards recording and producing, along with and synthetic sound. His ever growing collection of synthesizer keyboards and home recording studio is the basis for his own musical compositions and career. His YouTube channel has become a popular resource for other electronic music enthusiasts and Roland synthesizers.

As a well studied musician and composer; Norberto has written songs and collaborated with several local bands and artists, including his own, Prime Matter Sublimation. His musical influences include a large spectrum of genre and styles; ranging from the Beatles all the way to works like Switched on Bach.

Take a moment to listen to some of Norberto's compositions

I made this loop while I was inspired after having watched little living things march to music. I had this image of dancing little lights, 'kinda like the Disneyland parade with instruments.

This is an 8 bar loop that I created to represent aspects of instruments as male and female counterparts. There are a total of ten tracks and one initiated patch with portamento. This was an attempt to describe the feeling of sparks flying between two people when they first meet.

Norberto wanted to make a short video hoping to help out people who have just bought a juno-g and want to use the song recorder but don't know that you have to be using the specially designed  preset template 002.    

This is a little project that I did for school. I did all of the midi sequencing using the Roland Juno-G which got imported into cakewalk's Sonar producer 8. I mangled with it on Sonar and manipulated it with different soft synths... The most time consuming part was that I had to do a lot of video and sound editing in order to keep the original voices. Its not the usual approach but I did it and it took forever. The music didn't take long to do - that was the fun part about it. There were three different versions of this trailer.  What you hear in the end of the video is the music of one of those other three versions. I used a Buchla 200 series modular synthesizer that they have on campus for some sounds. It was a learning process since I had about a week to do it. I hope that people enjoy the new music.

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