 My Intention with this project was to extract different aspects of other music that I found interesting and unique. With this I had an idea in my head that I wanted to use this as my base for the rest of my project. Specifically to build upon the base sample with my own creativity.  It was difficult, but I feel that I was able to create a good base complementing sample taken from different songs. Although I found it difficult to add my own creativity to the song without destroying my original piece. I also feel that I could have changed it up a bit and make it more interesting when listening to it. It seemed to be a bit repetitive and I continued to return to my original part of the song. Overall I feel that I did a decent job of maintaining the atmosphere of the song which was meant to be hip hop. I am relatively satisfied with my final piece, although I do feel I lacked variety.






Patrick Original Remix Project

 My intention with this task was to create two different pieces of musique concrete that created a certain mood and atmosphere. With my first piece I wanted to create a mysterious mood in which the listener would spend his time attempting to piece together some meaning in my music. Although in actuality, I had no specific intention with this project in terms of portraying a specific scene or moment. However I did know that I was looking to make this piece relatively rough sounding and sharp in its sound. I’m sure with many of the sounds I used it was difficult to identify the sounds. With my second project I was looking to contrast this and make a smoother project with smoother transitions. This ended up being a much more soft sounding project, probably because of the fact that I ended up using almost only water sound effects. Since I had many of these already recorded. 

I found this task much easier throughout the making of my projects because it didn’t require as much musical skills in comparison with the other projects. The biggest challenge for me was perhaps recording and getting the right sound effects that I was satisfied with. I had already decided on the theme of my piece before so there was many sound effects that I ended up not using because I felt they didn't fit my piece. In order to solve this problem I started using “Audacity” and I found this aspect of the project very interesting. I was even able to use the same sound effects in both my pieces, but I used audacity to manipulate the feel of the sound and this is what intrigued me the most about this project. 

Overall I am relatively satisfied with the final outcome of my project and I feel that I managed to achieved most of the things I was looking for. I liked this project and I found it a nice contrast to the previous projects we have done throughout this year. 


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