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.
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