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Week 2
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
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 ...
Week 1
Hello world! Notes: Acoustical and Perceptual dimensions of sound four main properties Frequency Perceptually known as "pitch' measure in Hertz Hz considered a repeating frequency pattern noise: non regularly repeating frequency pattern Human ear range: 20Hz - 20kHz Amplitude Perceptually known as "volume" unit of measure: decibel 0 dB is the threshold of human hearing (ability to perceive a 1000 hz tone in a quiet room) threshold of pain = 130 dB Envelope Perceptually known as "articulation" how sound changes over time Attack (how the sound begins) Decay (how the sound falls) Sustain (continued tone) Release (how the sound cuts off) Harmonic system We dove into the web app called Soundtrap. This seems like a really useful collaborative digital audio workspace. We learned some of the basics of recording on the built in keyboard and the piano roll. The set up is very similar to garage band so I was able to pick up on things pretty qui...