For my final project I cut up the song Suo Gan, which is a Welsh lullaby used in the Spielberg film Empire of the Sun (where Christian Bale sings it in a boys choir as a 10 year old - his 1st big movie, it's so legit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNonF2n4qdE). One of the biggest problems I had was making the tempo consistent to use with certain underlying beats. The singer kind of drags and so it was hard to make it sound constant. I changed the tempo by first bringing the clip into recycle and labeling the bars so it gave me the original tempo. I then brought it into waveeditor and changed the tempo to various tempos that I used throughout the song. The first other clip I used was the intro of No Sex for Ben, by the Rapture.

I used a lot of different effects on Suo Gan in Metasynth. The program was one of my favorites because it was so simple and effective. But every time I did an effect and exported the file, the program would quit immediately. So, I had to do every single clip separately and it was a little frustrating. I think that, overall, Logic was the best program we used. It has such a simple layout and is a really powerful program for putting different elements together. My final project turned out a little psychotic - the different parts of it are only tied together by the Suo Gan sample and it is not in any one sample. But I had a good time doing it and just being able to use different sequences and effects.

I've listened to a few other final projects on people's blogs and I have been really impressed every time.