MY SONIC JOURNEY

Project 7: Meldoy

2008-04-17T04:07:00.000-07:00

For this last project we were to create a sound piece that deals with the idea of melody. I used the software FlexiMusic Composer to create my melody. FlexiMusic Composer is a multi-track program for composing, editing and mixing of music using sampled instrument sounds.
I found this project challenging as I have never composed before, yet the process of making it was enjoyable.

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Project 6: dinoSOUND

2008-04-02T15:02:00.001-07:00

For this project we were to create a sound piece that contains dinosaur sounds, and that will be made up of a blend of various effects. To create the sounds of dinosaur, I used a lot of animal sound clips and rendered them in Audacity. I as well used a lot of effects in my piece, such as pitch changing, echo, fade in/out etc, trying to create the Jurassic background ambience.

The combinations:
dino1- grizzly bear, monkey, leopard, swan

dino2-raccon, fish, dove, blownose

dino 3- dove, sealion, hippo, polar bear

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Project 5: List of numbers

2008-03-22T20:11:00.000-07:00

For this project, I decided to do a piece based upon the statistics of the largest earthquakes in the world since 1990.
I first created the simple melody with 3 different types of sounds using Max and then layering the tracks into Audacity.

	Chile	1960 05 22	9.5	-38.24	-73.05	Kanamori, 1977
2.	Prince William Sound, Alaska	1964 03 28	9.2	61.02	-147.65	Kanamori, 1977
3.	Off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra	2004 12 26	9.1	3.30	95.78	Park et al., 2005
4.	Kamchatka	1952 11 04	9.0	52.76	160.06	Kanamori, 1977
5.	Off the Coast of Ecuador	1906 01 31	8.8	1.0	-81.5	Kanamori, 1977
6.	Rat Islands, Alaska	1965 02 04	8.7	51.21	178.50	Kanamori, 1977
7.	Northern Sumatra, Indonesia	2005 03 28	8.6	2.08	97.01	PDE
8.	Assam - Tibet	1950 08 15	8.6	28.5	96.5	Kanamori, 1977
9.	Andreanof Islands, Alaska	1957 03 09	8.6	51.56	-175.39	Johnson et al., 1994
10.	Banda Sea, Indonesia	1938 02 01	8.5	-5.05	131.62	Okal and Reymond, 2003
11.	Kamchatka	1923 02 03	8.5	54.0	161.0	Kanamori, 1988
12.	Chile-Argentina Border	1922 11 11	8.5	-28.55	-70.50	Kanamori, 1977
13.	Kuril Islands	1963 10 13	8.5	44.9	149.6	Kanamori, 1977

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Project 4: Max/MSP

2008-03-13T07:22:00.000-07:00

MIDI SAMPLE

For this project we were assigned to design a sound generating device with the software called Max/MSP. I decided to stayed away from making complicated sounds since I am new to this program, therefore I created a piece that is not any of a kind but rather a random piece.
Overall I found this program very confusing and is not user-friendly at all. I dont think I would ever use this software again.

max v2;
#N vpatcher 4 48 1022 715;
#P origin 35 53;
#P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
#P newex 333 249 40 196617 decode;
#P newex 590 111 39 196617 noise~;
#P number 700 70 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P newex 690 113 51 196617 pgmout 3;
#P toggle 463 198 15 0;
#P user dial 585 47 40 40 128 1 0 0 159 270 1 1. 170 170 170 221 221 221 120 120 120 225 225 225 0 0 0 0 0 0;
#P number 537 192 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P newex 529 144 90 196617 scale 1 120 1000;
#P newex 529 113 27 196617 pipe;
#P newex 538 225 58 196617 metro 300;
#P newex 536 262 58 196617 random 99;
#P window linecount 2;
#P newex 535 300 82 196617 makenote 107 2 0;
#P window linecount 1;
#P newex 534 337 52 196617 noteout 3;
#P toggle 11 123 15 0;
#P number 389 120 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P newex 378 161 51 196617 pgmout 2;
#P user dial 292 57 40 40 128 1 0 0 159 270 1 1. 170 170 170 221 221 221 120 120 120 225 225 225 0 0 0 0 0 0;
#P newex 256 117 40 196617 ctlin;
#P toggle 186 145 15 0;
#P newex 229 166 105 196617 scale 0 127 50 2500;
#P number 229 203 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P newex 228 244 58 196617 metro 500;
#P newex 229 281 58 196617 random 99;
#P newex 230 319 100 196617 makenote 127 1000;
#P newex 232 350 52 196617 noteout 2;
#P number 47 151 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P user dial 53 64 40 40 128 1 0 0 159 270 1 1. 170 170 170 221 221 221 120 120 120 225 225 225 0 0 0 0 0 0;
#P newex 123 117 51 196617 pgmout 1;
#P number 121 83 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P newex 45 227 58 196617 random 99;
#P newex 47 193 58 196617 metro 500;
#P newex 46 291 52 196617 noteout 1;
#P newex 45 258 94 196617 makenote 127 100;
#P fasten 2 0 3 0 50 211;
#P connect 3 0 0 0;
#P connect 0 0 1 0;
#P connect 6 0 7 0;
#P connect 7 0 2 0;
#P connect 19 0 2 0;
#P connect 0 1 1 1;
#P connect 4 0 5 0;
#P fasten 6 0 5 0 95 121;
#P connect 14 0 11 0;
#P connect 12 1 11 0;
#P connect 15 0 13 0;
#P connect 13 0 12 0;
#P connect 11 0 10 0;
#P connect 10 0 9 0;
#P fasten 9 0 8 0 257 351;
#P connect 9 1 8 1;
#P connect 16 0 15 0;
#P connect 15 1 13 2;
#P connect 32 0 9 1;
#P fasten 12 0 11 1 308 247;
#P connect 32 0 11 1;
#P connect 15 1 13 4;
#P connect 18 0 17 0;
#P connect 16 0 17 0;
#P connect 27 0 24 0;
#P connect 24 0 25 0;
#P connect 21 0 20 0;
#P fasten 22 0 21 0 540 299;
#P connect 23 0 22 0;
#P fasten 25 0 26 0 538 177;
#P connect 28 0 23 0;
#P connect 26 0 23 0;
#P connect 21 1 20 1;
#P connect 24 0 25 2;
#P fasten 27 0 25 4 590 111 590 129;
#P connect 30 0 29 0;
#P connect 27 0 29 0;
#P pop;

Listening Questions

2008-03-13T04:26:00.000-07:00

1.What is your earliest memory of sound? How do you feel about it now?
My earliest memory of sound would have to be one of those toy piano I used to carry with
me all the time.

2. When do you notice your breath?
When i am running or working out

3. What is attention?
Attention is all about focusing and concentration

4. Can you imagine composing or improvising a piece based on breath rhythms?
Yes

5. What sound reminds you of home?
My dog

6. Do you listen for sound in your dreams? What do you hear? How does it
affect you?
Sometimes but most of the conversations are not clear and i tend to forget them the next day

7. The distinguished historian, Wiliam H. McNeil, has recently argued in his
book Keeping Together in Time that "coordinated rhythmical activity is
fundamental to life in society."
Can you imagine tracking a rhythm pattern in your daily life and writing about
it?
Sure

8. Can you imagine rhythm pattern for the rhythm circle with your own form of
notation?
No not really

9. Can you imagine composing or improvising a piece for voices using attention
patterns?
No that is not quite possible

10. What is sound?
This is a broad question, I think could be whatever you want, it is everywhere.

11. What is listening?
It requires your full-attention when listening, quite different from hearing

12. What action(s) is usually synchronized with sound?

13. When do you feel sound in your body?
When i am singing

14. What sound fascinates you?
running water

15. What is a soundscape?
A sound is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive
environment.

16. What are you hearing right now? How is it changing?
I am hearing the sound of traffic now

17. How many sounds can you hear all at once?
I am not sure, depending on the range of sounds

18. How far can you hear sounds?
I wonder too
19. Are you sure that you are hearing every thing that is to hear?
I dont think so, its quite impossible to hear everything

20. What more could you hear if you had bigger ears? (or smaller)
I wish i could hear the animals talking

21. Can you hear more sounds if you are quiet? How many more?
Ya i think i could hear a few more

22. How long can you listen?
Not very long, I am not very good at focusing

23. When are you not listening?
When im sleeping

24. Can you not listen when something is sounding?
Yes then you are just ignoring it

25. Try not listen to anything. What happens?
Its difficult

26. How can you not listen if your ears never close?
You just change the focus to somethin else

27. What meaning does any sound have for you?
Not sure

28. What is favourite sound? How is it made? When can you hear it? Are you
hearing it now?
My favorite sound would be playing with snowballs, when you are throwing snowballs really
hard at your friends.

29. What is the soundscape of the space you are now occupying?
not sure

30. How is the soundscape shaped? or what makes a soundscape?

31. What is the soundscape of your neighborhood?
The soundscape of my neighborhood mostly comprises traffics

32. What is the soundscape of your city?
The soundscape of my city is very quiet and peaceful.

33. How many different soundscapes can you imagine?
infinite

34. What would you like to have in your own soundscape?
running water

35. What would you record to represent your soundscape?
My own voice

36. What sound makes you speculative?
dont really know

37. What sounds gives you chills?
Any sound that is unexpected

38. What sound ruffles your scalp?
high pitched screaming

39. What sound changes your breathing?
when doing excercise

40. What sound would you like whispered in your ear?
my bf's voice

Project 3: Databaseaudio

2008-02-11T03:57:00.000-08:00

For this project I decided to play around with the program polyMachine by ixi software. polyMachine is a polyrhythmic step sequencer where one can set the number of steps of each individual channel. It has up to 6 channels with countless steps. You set up your system when you start playing and then import the sounds you want to use.

Overall, I found this project really enlightening and I was satisfied with the result. The software was really easy to manipulate as well, I am looking forward to trying other softwares.

databaseaudio

Project 2: Field recording

2008-02-11T01:34:00.000-08:00

This recording is a journey on my way home from school, much of the outdoors were recorded.
I really enjoyed this project because it gave me the opportunity to listen to sounds that I would normally ignore. It was such an interesting experience when I was able to re-hear all the ambient sounds in the recording. I was also fond of the idea of recording the fleeting conversation of people, but it seems that a lot of them were confused by what i was doing with my recorder, and even a guy came to me and asked if i was recording a free conversation for english class.

sonic journey

Project #1: Building a music instrument

2008-02-11T01:22:00.001-08:00

Get rice into bottle and shake away!

drum loop

2008-01-17T10:30:00.001-08:00

this sound was created bla bla