We created a song based on pi (3.14159..). My code was c =1 ,d= 2 ,e=3, f=4, g=5, a=6, b=7, c=8, d=9,e=0. I used keyboard, flute, drum, guitar. Based on pi, I repeated '314159265359'(ECFCGDDAGEGD). Picture credit: http://blog.naver.com/cmssb/130163997421

Pi Composition

Music Mix Personal Project

My mood was ‘lonely’. What inspired me to create this song was ‘BANKS – Under the table’. Because I really like that song, I wanted to create that kind of music. Not just sad ballad that keep expressing ‘I’m so sad!!!’, I wanted dark and atmospheric song - resignation and giving up, loneliness (feeling that we suffered after sadness), smile bitterly rather than crying. I tried to show the stories – late evening, come back home after hard works, take a bath and then listening to music alone in the room. So as you can listen, the order of sound I put was subway station sound, closing the door sound, taking a bath. Then, go into the room and lie down on the bed, lightly playing (tuning) the guitar. Suddenly, even worse raindrop falls which create darker atmosphere (which I exactly intend), and he/she plays the records. Searching sad, dark, downtempo sounds were really difficult because most of Mixcraft sound were bright and bouncy beat. I put ‘Synth Intro’ to whole music to make music darker by droning low sound and put rain sound to make music more gloomy. 

To avoid red-line, I turned down the vocal and rain sound. I also adjust all sounds volume like arch-shaped to connect each other more smoothly. I used ‘Echoes’ FX for vocal sounds because I thought if there is echoes, it will more atmospheric and used ‘Room (Small)’ FX for guitar sounds, ‘AM Radio’ FX for recording sound and rain sound. Additionally, I used the panning and changed ‘subway station sound’ to left to right to show how subway go. Actually there was not many challenges in Technical Part. 

Lonely Night

Morse Code Song (about ME)

Kyra K - Eye Project

For this project, we find a MIDI file and remix (transform) it. I really wanted to learn remixing for a long time but I found out that this project was the hardest project. I chose ‘4 walls’ by f(x) to remix because whenever I listened to that song, I wanted to remix it. So although there was only two tracks in the MIDI files (right hand piano melody and left hand piano melody), I just chose it, thinking that I could just add some MIDI or sound files from other songs. (And I was totally wrong) I realized ‘remixing’ that I had thought was actually ‘arranging’. What I had been thinking about was just small changes like electronic sound to acoustic or just slow down the tempo. But remixing was ‘transforming’. We should take little part of it and make it to different song. (We had to make big changes) But it was very hard because the original one was so perfect that if I try to do something with it (take out some part and reorder it, put some layers, etc) it sounds so bad. Cutting the part of it and changing the order made the song doesn’t make sense. Also it was hard to connect the parts that I took it out smoothly. Another challenges was technical problems. I don’t know why but my MIDI files didn’t let Mixcraft to change the instruments, so I had to play piano and record it. Also whenever I worked it in my home and clicked ‘save’, it said Mixcraft program is closing and you can’t save it. So sometimes I had to do everything again.
To explain my song, my theme is a little girl’s love. So I put narration from f(x) art film and change the intro piano sound to music box. (It is fair use because it is less than 30 seconds and I cut and edit it) Also I changed most of the sounds using ‘reverb’ and ‘delay’ effects, put some water drop sound to make the song dreamy. Additionally I changed some melody piano sound to the bell sound to match with my theme. My song is an arch form because I put same intro melody (music box sound) at both intro and outro part. I also tried to use various instruments by using KORG and KORG piano (It’s not really composing but I recorded some melody of background layer)
This was the project that I really wanted to do so though it was hard, it was really fun. Next time I think I can do it better by using more midi files and make the connection smoother. 


Kyra K @ TAS