Friday, February 22, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
GeoSonix Assignment
I used Flower and Ring Triplet Rhythm and Melody as my script.
https://soundcloud.com/alisonkw/flower-and-ring
https://soundcloud.com/alisonkw/flower-and-ring
Saturday, February 16, 2013
VST Plugins
In case anyone is still looking for decent free VST plugins, this site has a pack of six. I downloaded and tested them all successfully.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Sonification and Charles Dodge
Charles Dodge (born 1942) is an American composer and educator who is best known for his contributions to electronic music. He pioneered a technique known as "sonification" that would create a musical interpretation of scientific data.
His most notable work is Earth's Magnetic Field. Dodge and his partner set up a correlation between pitch and the average magnetivity of the Earth over a given period of time.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dodge_%28composer%29
http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/musicandcomputers/popups/chapter1/xbit_1_1.php
His most notable work is Earth's Magnetic Field. Dodge and his partner set up a correlation between pitch and the average magnetivity of the Earth over a given period of time.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dodge_%28composer%29
http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/musicandcomputers/popups/chapter1/xbit_1_1.php
Charles Dodge - Earth's Magnetic Field
Charels Dodge is an American composer best known for his electronic specifically his computer, Dodge created some of the first meritorious works in the field of computer music one of his songs mapped magnetic field data to musical sounds,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5MHsnc67yw
also this was in interesting video explaining the sonds that are made from the magnettic fields
http://io9.com/5947951/earths-magnetic-field-is-singing-this-is-what-it-sounds-like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5MHsnc67yw
also this was in interesting video explaining the sonds that are made from the magnettic fields
http://io9.com/5947951/earths-magnetic-field-is-singing-this-is-what-it-sounds-like
Curtis Roads
Curtis Roads is an electronic music composer who specializes in granar and pulsar synthesis techniques. He was the first person to implement granular sound processing into the world of electronic music. At the moment, Roads is busy researching a new kind of sound synthesis technique called atomic decompositions. In addition to being a sound engineer, Roads is also an author and a computer programmer in his free time.
Inception & Social Network Sound Perspective
I found the perspective from Inception sound re-recording mixer on the film, Gary Rizzo. He basically wanted audiences to know that “just like a dream, this is the movie that breaks the most rules; the one that will actually challenge the audience. This is the one that will really make people think long after the movie is over.”
Gary says. “Chris is interested in powerful, effective emotions…he really wants to make a big impact with both picture and sound, and he relies on his crew to follow through and deliver and do so in a timely manner. That’s an exciting team to be a part of.”
From as early as the first temp mix of Inception, it was evident to Gary that he was contributing to a unique project. “From an emotional perspective, this film is always growing and from a sound perspective, we're always having to keep up with it. The film feels as if it starts as one genre and almost morphs into another.” he says. “There are very passionate sequences with characters expressing incredible loss. A sweeping Hans Zimmer score and delicate production dialog tracks prevail here. In the same movie, you also have big, James Bond-like action sequences, with skiing, guns, military vehicles and explosions. This soundtrack as well as the screenplay are deliberately dynamic, to serve the emotional effectiveness of the film the whole way through."
In Social Network, the sounds and music used created a feeling of discordant and ominous overtones played by Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor.
This type of environment plays an important role in the sense of the movie, where the audience in feeling different sensations for the combination of the scenes and sounds. That's what the director in Social Network accomplished with all the music used in the movie.
Gary says. “Chris is interested in powerful, effective emotions…he really wants to make a big impact with both picture and sound, and he relies on his crew to follow through and deliver and do so in a timely manner. That’s an exciting team to be a part of.”
From as early as the first temp mix of Inception, it was evident to Gary that he was contributing to a unique project. “From an emotional perspective, this film is always growing and from a sound perspective, we're always having to keep up with it. The film feels as if it starts as one genre and almost morphs into another.” he says. “There are very passionate sequences with characters expressing incredible loss. A sweeping Hans Zimmer score and delicate production dialog tracks prevail here. In the same movie, you also have big, James Bond-like action sequences, with skiing, guns, military vehicles and explosions. This soundtrack as well as the screenplay are deliberately dynamic, to serve the emotional effectiveness of the film the whole way through."
In Social Network, the sounds and music used created a feeling of discordant and ominous overtones played by Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor.
This type of environment plays an important role in the sense of the movie, where the audience in feeling different sensations for the combination of the scenes and sounds. That's what the director in Social Network accomplished with all the music used in the movie.
Dodge: "Viola Elegy"
Charles Dodge is an American composer best known for his electronic music, specifically his computer music. In particular, Dodge was one of the leading innovators in the emerging field of computer music composition (as opposed to analog electronic composition, the norm in the field through the 1970s).
Monday, February 11, 2013
Remixing
In my opinion, remixing is an honest musical art, based on inspiration and prior ideas. Many artists, even prolific ones such as Phillip Glass, encourage remixing and believe that it can only push the boundaries of music and sound for the better. So we have the wills of the artist vs. the wills of the industry. In the end money has to be made and the labels want every bit of it. This is not to say there are not artists that support the current copyright laws, as we saw with Metallica. It is usually the more wealthy musicians that care to pursue legal action.
New Type of Music?
Does sampling, remixing, or mash ups change how music has been been made and are these techniques new or original? probably not as much as we think. people have been covering different artists songs for years which is practically the same thing as remixing just with out the use of electronic music. in both instances the artists is using something that already exists to entertain others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBftYleOspA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBftYleOspA
Girl Talk
Girl Talk is a music producer who creates mash-up style remixes of popular songs. A mash-up combines samples from previously produced music to create a new, unique song. He originally studied biomedical engineering but left that career to pursue his passion for music. He is the main feature of the documentary "A Remix Manifesto" and has had great success with his album "Feed the Animals". For creating his music, he uses Adobe Audition and AudioMulch Software.
Remix video
I think the point made about the old steadily trying to control the new hasn't been more true. Because the tools used to create the music are electronic, any music made has the potential to be hacked and stolen. It has reached a point where it can no longer be controlled.
Itunes has updated their business model slightly to combat the "stealing" of music with the ease and accessibility of purchasing music, sometimes earlier than the physical copy.
Another artist similar to Girl Talk is Dj Earworm:
Itunes has updated their business model slightly to combat the "stealing" of music with the ease and accessibility of purchasing music, sometimes earlier than the physical copy.
Another artist similar to Girl Talk is Dj Earworm:
Girl Talk Video
Mixing songs, creating new compositions, mashing-up different tones and timbres are been one of the most exciting things in music to me. Especially in electronic music cause I grew up listen to all this, but never saw the behind scenes of it. How this was created, how they picked the songs to mash-up, well all the process. Now watching at this guy, Girl Talk, and his video showing the real deal with all this compositions and creations, helped me understand the art in all this.
I'd think of Girl Talk as an especially talented mash-up DJ, but in reality he’s an artist in his own right, one who creates entire worlds in his mixes. They’re dynamic and shift endlessly, always ushering the listener from one place to another.
It was an awesome video, specially for what the "The most coolest layer in world", said: You cannot stop creativity and prevent of doing amazing things to revolve the world.
To me Imaginations and creativity has not boundaries and I personally think that the copyright concept is nothing but a way of preventing someone or something to be even better.
I'd think of Girl Talk as an especially talented mash-up DJ, but in reality he’s an artist in his own right, one who creates entire worlds in his mixes. They’re dynamic and shift endlessly, always ushering the listener from one place to another.
It was an awesome video, specially for what the "The most coolest layer in world", said: You cannot stop creativity and prevent of doing amazing things to revolve the world.
To me Imaginations and creativity has not boundaries and I personally think that the copyright concept is nothing but a way of preventing someone or something to be even better.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Sampling/Remix/Mashup
Sampling: taking a sample or piece of music and re-purposing it to your own song
- Original: Under Pressure by David Bowie ft. Queen
- Sampled: Ice, Ice, Baby by Vanilla Ice
Remix: a song that has been edited to sound different from the original version
- Original: Stronger by Daft Punk
- Remix: Stronger by Daft Punk (dubstep remix)
Mashup: a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track
- Ex: All Day by Girl Talk
- Black Sabbath "War Pigs"
- Ludacris "Move B****"
- Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys "Empire State of Mind"
- and many more!
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Wall of Sound
The production technique pioneered by Phil Spector, Wall of Sound, was developed in the late 1950's and dominated the airwaves during the 1960's. Be My Baby, a classic pop hit, was produced by Spector and brought the technique to the forefront of the music world.
The "wall" is achieved by having numerous guitar and bass players playing in unison, in addition to other instruments. This orchestration is then put in an echo chamber to achieve a larger sound. "Memories" by Leonard Cohen is a clear example of this technique.
The "wall" is achieved by having numerous guitar and bass players playing in unison, in addition to other instruments. This orchestration is then put in an echo chamber to achieve a larger sound. "Memories" by Leonard Cohen is a clear example of this technique.
Brian Eno - Generative Music
In 1996 Brian Eno released the title generative music
with SSEYO Koan Software. In so doing he popularised the term
"generative music", describing music that is ever-different &
changing, created by a system.
Many people find generative music systems incredibly interesting. Musicians to academics enjoy using them, and creating with them. They can generate some completely unexpected, but wonderful, results. You might think that generative music, being generated by a system, would always sound formulaic and impersonal. What you find, instead, is that artists using their skill and judgement can impose their own personality on the output, providing rich rewards for listeners through unique and live experiences.
Many people find generative music systems incredibly interesting. Musicians to academics enjoy using them, and creating with them. They can generate some completely unexpected, but wonderful, results. You might think that generative music, being generated by a system, would always sound formulaic and impersonal. What you find, instead, is that artists using their skill and judgement can impose their own personality on the output, providing rich rewards for listeners through unique and live experiences.
Generative Audio
Brian Eno coined the term generative audio to refer to music that is produced by a system, and is constantly changing. While it would seem that music produced by a computer would sound cold and machine-like, there are a variety of techniques that can be used to produced aurally-pleasing music. A technique that http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/ uses is called cellular automata. It is a simple algorithm which can be used to create wildly complex and unique patterns. Once these patterns are generated, musical knowledge can be applied to songs which could easily be mistaken for a human-produced song.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
"Wall of Sound"
What George Martin, Phil Spector and Brian Wilson all have in common is the Wall of Sound. The Wall of Sound is a production technique used in by rock bands in the late 1960s to create a rich and full sound. Attributed to Spector, the technique involves large orchestral ensambles, recording in an echo chamber and lots of layering.
George Martin is famous for incorporating these nonconventional instruments in many of The Beatles songs, such as Strawberry Fields Forever and Eleanor Rigby.
Brian Wilson also used this technique for many of the Beach Boys songs, most notably Good Vibrations.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Martin
http://youtu.be/NwrKKbaClME
George Martin is famous for incorporating these nonconventional instruments in many of The Beatles songs, such as Strawberry Fields Forever and Eleanor Rigby.
Brian Wilson also used this technique for many of the Beach Boys songs, most notably Good Vibrations.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Martin
http://youtu.be/NwrKKbaClME
Generative Soundscapes
Coined by sound designer Brian Eno, the term generative soundscapes refers to music that is constantly changing. Rather than following musical notation, the sounds are determined by a system. The system may be software, a composer or a biological element, such as the chimes in the wind.
What is important to note about generative soundscapes is that it can never be played the same way twice. Despite the expectation of something programmed to be very static or impersonal, generative sound is quite adaptive.
Below is a YouTube video of Brian Eno's generative sound app "Scape".
Sources:
George Martin, Phillip Harvey, and Brian Wilson
The most common thing between George Martin, Phillip Harvey, and Brian Wilson is that all of them produce music for very recognized musicians and musical groups using unique techniques. All of them have been recognized as pioneers in all their own areas of work specially for the type of productions they created for all these groups.
Now they are part of the legacy in sound and music creation in nowdays groups combining different techniques in their productions.
Now they are part of the legacy in sound and music creation in nowdays groups combining different techniques in their productions.
Generative Audio
Basically what this is, is the sound is changing all the time. The concept would described as the sound that unfolds in time according to a pre-determined formula or
process that has an unpredictable element to it (it will sound slightly
different every time it's played.)
There are four primary perspectives on "Generative Music": Linguistic/structural, Interactive/behavioural, Creative/procedural, Biological/emergent
There are four primary perspectives on "Generative Music": Linguistic/structural, Interactive/behavioural, Creative/procedural, Biological/emergent
Monday, February 4, 2013
Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes
Its amazing how the function of ambient sounds or aural landscapes is lost to us when they are present, but the absence of these sounds are strange and unnatural. Brian Eno, has honed in on the small sounds and noises that make things sound the way we think they sound in our minds.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Beyond Imagination
This the set of sounds created with Ableton using sounds from Ubu and Free Sounds to create different feelings.
Beyond Imagination
Beyond Imagination
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Brian Eno - Ambient Sounds
Listening and reading about Brian Eno, he will probably always be known as the godfather of ambient music. In this video and other sounds he created, he shows a creation of imagination in sounds. Brian, creates a sense of different emotions withing his compositions going beyond imagination and combining different feelings along with it.
Interesting concept of sound compositions.
Interesting concept of sound compositions.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Ableton sample beat
Here's a beat I made using only samples on ableton.
https://soundcloud.com/wiley-ruffians/slow-it-down
https://soundcloud.com/wiley-ruffians/slow-it-down
ADSR
Attach - Decay - Sustain - Release
Attach: how quickly the sound reaches full volume
Decay: how quickly the sound drops to the sustain level after the initial peak
Sustain: the "constant" volume that the sound takes after decay until the note is released
Release: how quickly the sound fades when a note ends
Source: http://en.wikiaudio.org/ADSR_envelope
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