Nov 27, 2019
One of my favorite YouTubers just posted a video that's vaguely related to something I'm working on.
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One of my favorite YouTubers just posted a video that's vaguely related to something I'm working on.
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my friend Aja makes beautiful sounds
Studio2 : Sound Sampling
This is my final sound uploaded to soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/colab-soundscapes/confusion-dale-mccullough Reflective Statement I found going out and physically recording my own sounds then playing them back an interesting experience which really connected myself to what I was working on. I learnt there was a large amount of free software available that works with sound and found them very useful for adding effects, trimming, fading and layering my raw audio and internet sourced audio. I highly enjoyed having large files and just slashing and hacking away at them to create new sounds, sequences and rhythms. I discovered that to much sound in one place can cause drowning out, irritating noises and confusion. This is where I discovered the name "Confusion" for my piece of work. I feel my piece of work has to much "songs" and "beats" for what the brief was intending to aim for but I did what I felt was right and mixing these with my raw data sounds had an interesting connection between the two. Although many of my raw data sounds are distorted in one way or another I feel I have done well with this task and proud of what I was able to produce at the end of it.
Studio2: Sound Sampling
Yesterday I went around town recording all sorts of noises including truck reversing beeps, court yards, birds, street buskers, shopping malls, foot traffic and so on. I've also downloaded audacity and had a bit of a play around on there with some of my content. Now time for some research on others music and a few internet audio files to download to add to the collection.
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Exploring Sound Sampling
The past few days I have been working on building a collection of sound samples for the purpose of creating a 'sound collage'. I am really interested in ambience, especially the sounds that we commonly filter out without realising. Even a silent room contains a wealth of audio information, and I am interested in discovering some of the unnoticed sounds that occur in what we would commonly think of as a silent room.
In order to explore this idea I took two approaches. Firstly, I used a microphone with high input gain and explored a few different rooms looking to amplify the quiet sounds emanated to the point where they were acutely noticeable.
My second approach was to discover the acoustic sound of a silent room. Every room has acoustic dynamics that give it a particular 'sound'. Audio engineers will sometimes use an equalizer to adjust a sound system in order to remove any problem frequencies that might occur because of this 'room sound'. One of the techniques used to find these 'problem frequencies' is the technique I employed in order to record the sound of a silent room.
By connecting a microphone and loudspeaker to a mixing desk, it is possible to create feedback by increasing the input gain and output volume of the microphone and the loudspeaker respectively. By connecting a parametric equalizer between the mixing desk and the loudspeaker it is then possible to isolate and reduce the frequency that is causing the feedback. I used this technique to record the different frequencies that would feedback for different rooms, as well as for different microphone and loudspeaker positions within a room.
The result of my recordings was a range of tones and sounds that reflect the unheard noises of a 'silent' room, amplified to make them noticably audible.
This one has a lot of weird influence to it. I might have created some kind of horrible sounding monster, or I might have created something reasonable. Listening to it after the final export, the drums can be a bit distracting. Hm. Tumblr's gone and killed my layout, leaving only basic html at the moment, so I'll be brief-ish. Ever since I've started work, I've been trying to write something, but could never get it out. On one hand, there's plenty of inspiration to be had in the tiringness of it all, but on the other hand, they play plenty of shitty music on the radio. Lots and lots. They're also obligated to not change the radio station because they have a contract. It's sort of annoying. I'm allowed to use my mp3 player, but generally this people to yell at me. I work at a thrift store frequented by old people. There's plenty of people who are amazingly nice and supportive, but then there's plenty who play into the exact stereotype of "bitter old person". It has the potential for a lot of sucking. Anyway, someone convinced the manager to change the radio station for a bit today and I heard some song with breakbeats on the radio. I didn't like the song itself, but it did give me the urge to do something with really effected breakbeat style drums. The other influence on this track, as seemingly always was sonic. That's actually what got me to write it in the first place. However it's not the usual sonic music that did it. This was inspired by sonic's newer pop-punk openings. Realistically, sonic was the catalyst but the song is mostly rooted in plenty of pop-punk writing style. It's a genre that I like to listen to sometimes, but never seem to write. The chord progression is probably reasonably recognizable. I didn't specifically stolen, but I'm sure that there's plenty of early 2000s songs that use a progression like this. The only outright stealing I've done is more homage, because it's short and blatant, and intended. This is in the form of the second half of the verse. It's made up a mix between two blink 182 lines, one from Anthem part 2, one from I Miss You. See if you can find them. Ho ho, I'm such a clever dude. Also, sorry if this doesn't make sense or flow. I'm writing in a box that displays about five lines at a time. Tumblr's being dumb again. More like dumblr.
It's been a while and I still feel like I'm not going to get back into my songwriting groove, but at least I put something out, right?
I got kind of lucky with inspiration here. In terms of something that I've made up, there's pretty much zero phrase stealing here, so it's all original. I just happened to overhear a few seconds of music playing on the radio downstairs that I really liked. However, I was upstairs and just caught a few seconds of it. I didn't really internalize it, but I had a vague idea of that feel and from it, I got a ton of my own ideas. I did a bit of work on my keyboard and then set about writing the thing out. There's some issues in my actual writing it out, which worries me because I was getting pretty good at that before and now I seem to be back to having difficulty getting a song from my head to the page.
I'm not sure why, but there was a point where I thought of the Donkey Kong 2 soundtrack, and that's where a lot of the feel got thrown way crazy like (the original song was rock.) In everyone's favourite Donkey Kong 2 song, Stickbrush Symphony, there's a cool mix of britpop-ish rock and a dreamy electronic feel, which I'm a fan of. That's to say that I like both britpop and dreamy, spacey music. In the vein of dreamy spacey music, I remembered a favourite track of mine from Nights. If the track plays long enough, you begin to hear voice samples from children calling out to each other in the background. I'd played through the entire game twice and only discovered that on my third playthrough. I think it's really cool though and wish it was a bit more prominent, which is what I tried to do in this song.
I wrote out the flute melody forwards anticipating that it'd be backwards. That was my plan from the start. With this in mind, I knew that it'd have to be a short little thing and not a full song thing, as there's chord changes and stuff. I'm not good enough here to be writing songs backward, so they can be played reversed, so they'll sound backward, but be forward. What?
That's what I did though on a smaller scale. This is getting probably difficult to read and could have been worded better. Anyway, I wrote it backwards. I also discovered that the backwards-reverbed, echoed synth flute is one of my favourite sounds ever.