Popcorn-1

This is the initial sound byte I wanted to show today. I thought about doing this when we were talking about using musical instruments in different ways. When you close a piano lid you are pretty much stopping musical sound.  But you can sometimes hear the faint sounds of the strings vibrating when you close the lid. It's a sound I'm fond of because it's like the last breath of sound before silence.  Since the sound is very quiet though, I had to modify it by pushing the right pedal down and slamming the piano lid.  I then cut out the sound of the lid hitting so you would just be left with the sound of the strings all vibrating at once.  It turned out way scarier and creepier sounding though than I had thought it would be.  Instead of a nice little whisper that you hear when you just close the lid, it sounds like after having a frustrating music rehearsal and you just hate your musical instrument, or the soundtrack of "Amnesia"...not intentional but still kind of cool I thought! Also the sounds of people practicing piano in other rooms around me kind of linger as the strings stop vibrating, which I also chose to leave in.

Assignment 1

I decided to use Audio 6 as the foundation of the music, and then added the other tracks as more of accents and hits.  I think if I were to do this again, I would add in audio track 8, because I found this track really interesting and would have liked to play with it a bit more.

Assignment 2

Combines Call On Me by Eric P., Turn Me On by David Guetta ft. Nicki Minaj and Radioactive by Imagine Dragons.

Jenny's midterm

For this assignment I took the first line from a poem that reads, "Sometimes I wish I could just stop time/Weightless in an infinite moment" and I ended up just using the first line and splicing it so that the "t" of "time" became a ticking like of a clock and then adjusting the pitch of the word "time" and adjusting the velocity of "just."  I liked using the "st" of "stop" as well.  I end the assignment by pulling away elements until it is just the ticking and the word "stop."

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