Spaziani MUE332

This was a pretty fun project to complete. I decided to go into the WCU CMT studio and try to record vocals with an actual microphone. I used a Warm Audio condenser microphone with a pop filter. I had to figure out how to set the USB audio interface correctly because there were some dB settings I had to fiddle with. I ended up needing to click in the switch labeled +48V. After some research, I found out that this switch allows for phantom power meaning the microphone needs a source of electricity to work properly.  I feel more comfortable inputting drum beats and bass lines with vintage synths, but I'm grateful for the accessibility that has been programmed into newer technology. I played around with the tones of the synths to get something I thought sounded pretty cool. I made the bass line a square wave instead of a saw wave and changed the resonance tuner. The square wave had a smoother sound and the resonance tuner changed the tonal character.  Once in Soundtrap things wer...

Disco Popular form of music in the 70s  Saturday Night Fever Disco Demolition Night in Chicago considered end of Disco  Punk began to rise  Stripped down (no strings  Simple, raw, unproduced  Micheal Jackson  Almost all synthesized  Salt n pepa  Run DMC  Beat box evolution Drum machines Drum machines or beat boxes are “played” or programmed  Small trigger pads are sometimes present  Real-time or step entry Drum sounds are loaded into groups or “kits” Digital Drums  Drumsets are reproductions of acoustic drumsets in manner of performance Percussion controllers include mallet like or hand percussion models Trigger pads come in various materials configurations Have become a substitute for the many instruments a percussionist could be expected to play in a single performance History Drum machines  Rhythmicon  Worlds first electronics drum or rhythm machine Created by Leon Theremin  Ace Tone Rhythm Ace Early dum bea...

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Sound Breaking Early synthesizer players came from a classical organ playing background. Mixcraft - garageband for windows. Digital audio and recording  Loops are a particular type of digital  Very versatile Change tempo without changing pitch Change pitch without changing tempo 12 bar blues often used for middle school classes. People in the 1800s either had to go to a performance or learn to play an instrument.  1800s ways to hear music Performance Playing an instrument yourself Music box  Player piano orchestrion  Pat Metheny Orchestrion Thomas Eddison gramophone  Capturing sound wave energy and storing it on a wax cylinder  Captured sound using a long cone Moved to wax discs (vinyl records) Magnetic tape Began with large rotating reels of thin steel  Became reels of plastic with a thin coating  8 track  Tape deck  1980s Personal computer technology  CDs  Record audio digitally ...

     Musique concrete seems to me like the precursor to a modern genre of music that I enjoy a lot. Its generally referred to as Hyperpop, but is also considered to be experimental/avant garde pop music. They use many techniques found in modern pop music, but use them in an exaggerated way. Some artists include 100 Gecs, late Charli XCX, and Dorian Electra. They manipulate samples and raw data in a way very similar to musique concrete. For my project I used a 100 Gecs song "I need help immediately" as inspiration.        I remember hearing that 100 Gecs released the "stems" of their songs for download. The stem is essentially each track from their original project exported as its own mp3. This allows people to import each file into a program like audacity and look at how the tracks fit together. Unfortunately, they are only wave files, so you can't see how they manipulated the sounds to get the end product but I found it useful nonetheless. Fred ...

Check out my new song.  Fred · Blues