Feeling the sound

https://soundcloud.com/araabmuzik/araab-muzik-streetz-tonight

As a Hip-Hop/Rap fan I connect with this instrumental because of its tempo and percussion sounds. It feels more upbeat than the average Hip-Hop/Rap sound. There are a few changes that occur in tempo and slight changes in sound uses to change the feel of the track. Anything more upbeat should normally make me want to be active and have my blood pumping but the sounds used by the producer are relaxing to me. Primarily the soft spoken sample of the woman you hear. The producer designed the sample to feel dreamy. This adds a balance to the up tempo sound without the sample of her the sound would make me feel more energetic and excitement. At "1.11secs" into the songs the mood switches from dreamy to more electric with the increase tempo of percussion and the less dreamy effects to the voice sample. this is when the track sounds completely like Rave music and loses it Hip-Hop/Electronica Hybrid feel.

Darius

CAN

I love it when people bring up "krautrock" groups of which Can is one of my favorite. The Future Days and Ege Bamyasi are prog-rock masterpieces with of course Mr. Damo Suzuki singing.

Music: Staples and Tendencies

Like many folks, the music that I trend towards adjusts with the rhythm of the day. Currently, I find myself choosing Thelonious Monk, Pluramon, Tom Zé, and Jacaszek.
Thelonious swings with elastic introspection. I can’t think of anyone else who can elicit a meditative bounce using minimal notes than he can. T.M. is one of the main jazz staples for me.
If I am in a processing or grinding out mode I have been selecting Pluramon’s Render Bandits, which is/was a German group performing post-prog rock/ IDM with heavy dub-like bass and glitch and electronic treatments thrown in. It’s like Nabukazu Takemura remixing Can.
I like intimate classical music( soloists and quartets) and the trend of some composers to integrate ambient treatments into chamber music. Jacaszek, from Poland, is my current favorite among these composers. He could have composed the soundtrack to any Andrei Tarkovsky movie.
My wife is Brazilian, so I also listen to a lot of Brazilian music. Tom Zé is a genius-trickster. He turned samba on its head by giving it a post-modern look in the mirror.

Please watch this and be able to discuss the sound design components of one of the greatest rock songs of all time.

Please find the links to the software i mentioned below. We will use them to get familiar with some basic elements of sound before we move onto Ableton, Reaktor and Supercollider for Sound Design.
Please install them and bring your laptops to class and we will go over some very basics to get familiar with Types of waveforms, Oscillators, and ways to create sounds with simple functions. Also please tell me what you are listening to and what you are into right now so i may get to know what you are into musically.


http://puredata.info/downloads

http://cycling74.com/downloads/

Final Requirements

Just found this on my computer if anyone is interested

6 files - lfe, left stereo, right stereo, left, center, right

1 movie file

folder with your name, student id, title of piece

48000 kHz, mono or stereo (16 bit) wav/aif, all source, sesx file

audio bed that changes at least once

paragraph about what you did

import something from UBUweb

4 hours of lab time logged

excel spreadsheet with arrangement view (cues)

use audition, 3-5 minutes (max 7)

route 2 effects inside audition

at least 1 sound goes 360, ping-pong, traveling, morphing

environmental sound

extra credit if sound from pure data or cecilia, or do silent film, use synth

20 cubes

Monday Class

Hey Everyone,

Hope everything's going well with the projects. Today is a workday, but we will be meeting on Monday to show Pat the progress we've made thus far. Have a great weekend


-Kenya