Sunday, October 26, 2008
Comments about Assignment 3
I started out wanting to do this project in the Ambient style. I began with some drony synth sounds but I didn't really want to deal with environmental sounds and some other aspects of the style, so I switched to Techno. First, I created a drum beat with a strong bass drum on every count. I used a few different techno drum patches from Dr. Rex but other than that the percussion part was relatively minimalist. I used one melodic progression, starting with a C-minor arpeggio, and recreated it with a few different synthesizers in different patterns. I used a lot of the reverb effect. I tried to avoid having any sort of climax in the melodic structure. I think the parts are a little too separate, and the melody is very distinct from the underlying drum pattern, so it is not actually classically in the techno style.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Song below...
I just posted this Lemon Jelly song, Experiment Number 6, because the way they create a beat out of the static in the beginning reminds me a lot of the click assignment we just finished - creating music out of very little.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Just some comments about the last assignment:
The first ringtone was made from a recording of my suitemate taking out our recycling. The glass bottles clanked together and made a sweet almost purely musical sound. In the course of my recording, I also chose some things that were just music to record: a roommate's singing echoing in the entryway, the bells of Harkness Tower and an organ performance at Woolsey. But ultimately, I wanted to make the ringtone from something not intrinsically musical. I basically just copied the first recording, moved the layers to different times and experimented with modifying speed.
The second ringtone was a recording of opening my entryway door with my ID; the beep and click of the heavy wooden door. I took a small splice of the recording to be repeated and experimented with the frequency changer in the Pluggo effects. I liked that the last repetition turned out to be an exact octave from the original recording.
The first ringtone was made from a recording of my suitemate taking out our recycling. The glass bottles clanked together and made a sweet almost purely musical sound. In the course of my recording, I also chose some things that were just music to record: a roommate's singing echoing in the entryway, the bells of Harkness Tower and an organ performance at Woolsey. But ultimately, I wanted to make the ringtone from something not intrinsically musical. I basically just copied the first recording, moved the layers to different times and experimented with modifying speed.
The second ringtone was a recording of opening my entryway door with my ID; the beep and click of the heavy wooden door. I took a small splice of the recording to be repeated and experimented with the frequency changer in the Pluggo effects. I liked that the last repetition turned out to be an exact octave from the original recording.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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