This piece is a landscape of the recesses of the mind.
Word. Have a great break everyone - enjoy this with the volume and bass up, light some candles, and just be.
09 December 2009
Electro Psychadelia
I wanted originally to create several different mixes of a theme in electro, psytrance, and other electronic styles. I noticed these mixes started to sound similar, and without some logic incompatible synths, I had a hard time trying to get the sound I wanted. I decided I would combine all these styles into one mix and see how it turned out, concentrating on really polishing it.
Steel
Yo doods,
Here my song is. This song is all about stretching out
short sounds until they are unrecognizable. The long
"steely" sound is a piece of bamboo being struck with
a stick, streched from a fraction of a second into
something like a minute. Another sound is the
resonance of a bell stretched out, and
another is some Swiss-German voice
stretched out and processed.
The clicking sounds
are nuts (as in
nuts and bolts)
rolling across
a table.
Enjoi
About my final project
I have an exam during class today, so here's some info about my project:
I was originally going to record my brother playing guitar, piano, drums and electric and upright bass and put them together into a more or less traditional song with some electronic embellishments, but the electric bass recordings were so much better than the others that I decided to make the whole song out of the bass recordings. All audio is electric bass recorded with a zoom while I was home over Thanksgiving (with various plug-ins and other modifications in Logic).
I couldn't think of a good title, so I called the piece "Tube Well" because as I am posting this, I'm studying for an econometrics exam that I have in a few hours and am doing a practice problem about the distribution of arsenic in tube wells in Bangladesh....
I enjoyed the semester, good luck with exams and happy holidays
I was originally going to record my brother playing guitar, piano, drums and electric and upright bass and put them together into a more or less traditional song with some electronic embellishments, but the electric bass recordings were so much better than the others that I decided to make the whole song out of the bass recordings. All audio is electric bass recorded with a zoom while I was home over Thanksgiving (with various plug-ins and other modifications in Logic).
I couldn't think of a good title, so I called the piece "Tube Well" because as I am posting this, I'm studying for an econometrics exam that I have in a few hours and am doing a practice problem about the distribution of arsenic in tube wells in Bangladesh....
I enjoyed the semester, good luck with exams and happy holidays
Not Quite Pachelbel in C
Originally it was to have a completely original tune, but after apparently mixing it up with Pachelbel's Canon during recording and also later in the editing process, I've realized the result is fairly similar - thus, the title, and also because the song is in C major. Piano and Harp are acoustic.
Final Project:
This one is called organic machinery. You guys know my style, its more sound than music. Its also quite reflective. To me electronic music is a lot like organic machinery in that we take organic, found sound, and from it produce music with a sense of order. This is my own personal reflection of the time I have spent in MUS153, and also includes a humorous poke at our honorable Professor. Hope you guys enjoy its been a great semester, and thank you professor Supko.
PS: IF you don't like it, I'm sure this goes without saying, please don't hesitate to criticize.
St. Eno's Fire
by Cameron Zohoori
I won't be in class for our final concert, so here are some short ramblings on my final piece:
I made this piece without a definite plan. I focused mostly on the sound itself, rather than a specific process or technique I intended to use to get there - in this piece, music was not the process, as many of the theorists we've read have treated it; it was the product. However, in some ways it did end up being a sort of sampling of some the of the ideas and techniques we traversed in class. It starts with a bit of musique concrete. The initial static-like noise was a recording from Thanksgiving dinner preparations; the water drops were found on freesound.org. However, it is not meant to be a musique concrete piece at all, so these sounds are quickly processed and incorporated into midi sound. There are some pseudorandomly generated segments (in the second half of the piece) - I played/composed the notes, but with no planning or later alteration, in one take, and not really paying much attention to what I was doing - basically holding down keys alternately. Overall, however, my goal was primarily to avoid having a goal, unlike most of my other pieces thus far. Though I think it could use some polishing in places, I am quite happy with how it turned out. I'd love to hear your comments.
P.S. I have had an incredible time learning and making music with you guys this semester. Thanks to everyone!
I won't be in class for our final concert, so here are some short ramblings on my final piece:
I made this piece without a definite plan. I focused mostly on the sound itself, rather than a specific process or technique I intended to use to get there - in this piece, music was not the process, as many of the theorists we've read have treated it; it was the product. However, in some ways it did end up being a sort of sampling of some the of the ideas and techniques we traversed in class. It starts with a bit of musique concrete. The initial static-like noise was a recording from Thanksgiving dinner preparations; the water drops were found on freesound.org. However, it is not meant to be a musique concrete piece at all, so these sounds are quickly processed and incorporated into midi sound. There are some pseudorandomly generated segments (in the second half of the piece) - I played/composed the notes, but with no planning or later alteration, in one take, and not really paying much attention to what I was doing - basically holding down keys alternately. Overall, however, my goal was primarily to avoid having a goal, unlike most of my other pieces thus far. Though I think it could use some polishing in places, I am quite happy with how it turned out. I'd love to hear your comments.
P.S. I have had an incredible time learning and making music with you guys this semester. Thanks to everyone!
08 December 2009
05 December 2009
Daniel Thielman's Final Project (The Vantage adVantage)
A frail tribute to the amazingness that is the Beastie Boys.
14 November 2009
11 November 2009
White Kid Gloves
Independent Project 2
Experiment with generative music (noatikl) and other ways to give up compositional power.
Experiment with generative music (noatikl) and other ways to give up compositional power.
Electric Oven
An electro/glitchy remix of Beethoven's Fur Elise. When I thought of "Electric Beethoven" - I couldn't help but think of "Electric Oven" so go figure. Very crunchy bassline.
10 November 2009
In The Dark
This one was intended to be an instrumental, but hey, things happen. I recorded it with a touch of cold and wrote the lyrics in about 2 seconds so please be kind.
09 November 2009
Admonition to a Red Dog
Independent Project 1
Yeah, I'm a bit late getting this one up. Stay tuned for project 2.
All audio, all recordings of my roommate Brent Sodman playing the guitar.
Yeah, I'm a bit late getting this one up. Stay tuned for project 2.
All audio, all recordings of my roommate Brent Sodman playing the guitar.
06 November 2009
Fire!
This is Danny Thielman's second independent project. Follow a firefighter as he breaks in, finds a survivor, picks him up, thinks there's no escape, and then saves the day through a harrowing act of heroism!
05 November 2009
04 November 2009
02 November 2009
24 October 2009
23 October 2009
21 October 2009
Saturday Night
The lyrics for this one came from a post secret card that said "I've been losing things recently in my tiny apartment...Maybe i'll stop looking and everything will come back to me."
19 October 2009
Spinners
An original rap by Daniel Thielman. Backbeat based on Blood Sweat and Tears' Spinning Wheel. A cult classic.
Lyrics for the curious:
The odds are stacked for hip hop and rap
To tip top and cap the charts for so long, it's wack!
Cuz sick songs don't lack or hold back
all the facts and smack talk on tracks that blast
from the back of cadillacs that're
packed to the max to hide the fact that the lack of
cash is just so bad that dad's about to snap
So he taps into a mad rap, but
See the effect on the select teens who let
these obscene texts shred the best things about being
left clean with no need to be set free from
Juvee. Cuz music lets things look so
sexy and juicy till you're arrested
cruising down the street in
cop corvette,
and don't you bet you're in the left seat (cuz then you'd be drivin', heh...
On a one to five with a
Five bein' right
and a one bein' what goes on
all the time in life
The highest kinda o' honor's when
on a whim, karma spins, and honest men
ascend into the lime light
Such delight when the underdog fights and wins
And applause thunders on as we're empathizin'
Despite his plight, odds one to ten million and then
Some, he's risin' enticed by the trillions of benja
min's time goes by, and odds are one in ten million
again His life is right before God and before men.
If power corrupts then, money's destructive,
And if you're lucky enough, then you won't get too much,
because runnin' amock with truckload of bucks is
Unjust when the bus stop for hobos is boxes-
The homeless are rockin' to tupac and wantin'
to upset the system that constantly stops them
and with the cost of a song that they bought, they get broke
but we know that it's wrong for one profit off hope
And before long, who knows, easy come easy go,
The ones on the top'll toppel down to the floor
If the tube is a mirror,
Then music is clearer
And I fear we're endeared to a
a series of peers who are
Usin' their sheer cool to
as a tool steer youth who
hear tunes and deduce that
beneath the veneer
is a sneer and a slight leer
of a goon of our nightmares
who don't fight fair cuz his sights landed him right where
he had in mind, I'm scared, got this
hint of a feeling,
this spinnin' wheel it's when
Men are dealin', and kids are reeled in and
think that ceilin' of their po tential is
signed and sealed in an official
check of a record deal, and there's no
healin' for the neglect or the
lack of respect: they've been kneelin',
dejected, beggin' and pleadin', instead o'
seein' the reason, that these things life feeds us
aren't to tease us, but to teach us that leaders
torn to pieces, so that, reborn like a phoenix,*
we can Repeat the previous task without the past defeat it's
like answer to your prayers is right there,
It ain't that God don't care, we just all ain't
supposed to be millionaires.
*Yes, I know this is a cheesy image, but it fits well, lyrically and content-wise, so I left it. Eh, no one's perfect.
15 October 2009
14 October 2009
13 October 2009
The Fake Slim Shady
A time-intensive remix of Eminem's, "Sing for the Moment."
For your listening pleasure, courtesy of Danny T.
Cheers.
For your listening pleasure, courtesy of Danny T.
Cheers.
07 October 2009
02 October 2009
24 September 2009
Welcome to St. Eno's Chapel!
Duke University is situated not far from the Eno River in North Carolina, but this chapel's patron saint is Brian Eno, the father of "the studio as compositional tool." Here you will find the work of students taking Music 153: Introduction to Computer-Assisted Music. We're using AudioSculpt, GRM Tools, Logic Pro 8 (soon to be 9), Max/MSP, Noatikl, Reason, SoundHack & SPEAR, among other applications. Check back periodically for new audio posts!
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