Audio Arts Final Project

My ORIGINAL final project was a grunge rock band, but that one got deleted so my NEW final prject is a jazz quartet from the university. The song they're playing is called Oleo, and the actual song is 5 minutes long. Luckily for you, I faded it out at 3 minutes, but if you would like to hear the full version, feel free to ask.

The song is mostly improvised which made things a lot easier for me, and being jazz, didn't require a whole lot of producing.

No major troubles were encountered during this exercise, apart from the obvious one of losing my entire project. So despite the steep learning curve this semester has been, I think I've been successful in completing the task.

So here are all the final products! ::

PDF FILES OF DOCUMENTATION

OLEO

Creative Computing - Final Project

Program Note :

Speaking In Tongues :-
Amy Sincock
2`04

This composition was made using vocal reproductions of mobile phone conversation’s heard on the bus, or in Rundle Mall. They were reproduced by Meghann Sunners and Sarah Melrose. The material was heard and noted, and re-recorded later in a studio. Not only the words, but also tone of voice, pauses, and dynamics of the caller were noted. Also recorded were standard ringtones of a Nokia phone. The idea for this project came after being on a crowded bus in which 7 phone conversations were taking place. The fact that it is a very distinct mash of sound that people don’t even seem to notice was interesting and I wanted to highlight this. Most of the piece is simple and hardly edited, because I wanted to keep it fairly similar to the actual sound you would hear. Some effects were put on the vocals to further emphasise the confusion and unintelligible effect of the conversations.


SCORE FOR SPEAKING IN TONGUES

And the final piece of music itself:: SPEAKING IN TONGUES



Over and out, happy holidays!

Week 11 - Creative Computing

This weeks task was to use Metasynth's other rooms that we didn't use last week. The Image Synth, Spectral Synth and Montage Room. As usual, it was interesting to see the different effects you can make with something as common as the human voice.

For my soundscape, I basically just took snippets, almost randomly warped them until I found something I liked. Because this is so late, and because I doubt I'll be able to be marked on this anyway, I'll jsut post the pictures of what I did without to much written explanation. They show what I did better than any misguided words anyway.













And here is the sound itself. I like to think of it as Montage Of Doom. It sounds a lot better if you turn it up loud. I think I should have fixed that in the program actually. Anyway, here it is:

MONTAGE OF DOOM

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Lecture presented by Christian Haines, 31st May, 2007, Adelaide University

week 12 - CC

This weeks task was simply to complete the preproduction form for the major project. It was a bit confusing knowing what to write but I tried to address what it said on the sheet. I originally wanted to make recordings of lots of different water noises, like the rain, drains, and things like that, but it would've been too hard to make the recordings in the set time. So I settled on what is on the form. Any thoughts on the idea greatly appreciated!

Pre production form