found audio from when i took a digital sound class during grad school. completed august 2017.

below is my submitted statement:
Iannis Xenakis was who I wanted to use as a starting point. I loved how his piece La Legende D’eer had an overall mood, so I wanted to emulate that. I feel like the first half of my piece is successful with that goal but around the final minute or so I struggled with how to change it up a bit. My audio is either from my field recordings or what I generated myself, with the exception of the cat hissing and growling, which is from freesound. La Legende D’eer starts with high pitched noise, which is a direct reference in my piece, and I also end my piece with the same noise, just set at a different pace.

My two other influences are Bernard Parmegiani’s L'oeil Ecoute, in which there is sampled pop music. It’s faint, but I included one of my field recordings that picked up music playing in the HUB dining hall. I played with the spectrograph of this audio, as well as analog decay, stretch and pitch, reverse, chorus/flanger. 

An interesting moment in my piece is at 01:25, in which I used the time stretching technique of Richard Karpen. As done in Life Study #4, I added audio of a woman in charge of a group of kids, (quietly heard at 01:10) and then repeat this sound at 01:25, where it is stretched out. I applied a doppler shift to this clip, so I emphasized this moment by silencing all other audio, so the movement of the voice can be explicitly heard.

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found audio from when i took a digital sound class during grad school. completed july 2017.

below is my submitted statement:
I wanted to choose new audio that seemed to share the same theme, since I just randomly chose different sounds with my earlier projects. I decided to use more complex editing methods on the already existing audio. Techniques I used were cut, paste, reverse, pitch shifter, enveloping, speed up, low and high pass filter, and overlapping. 

There are two primary techniques I wanted to attempt and incorporate in my piece. One was using clear sections with my music like what we saw with Parmegiani’s L’Oeil Ecoute. This made the piece look organized when looking at it in Audition and it is something I plan to do with my future pieces. Another technique was inspired by Richard Karpen and his dog clip in Life Study #5, which I chose to imitate with the sound of the baby, which I feel is the most out-of-place sound. Although the dog’s bark is unedited in Karpen’s piece, I took a little creative freedom to experiment with the baby sound.

The baby’s voice is played as is and repeated three times, each repeated segment with an increasing graphic equalizer starting with 10 then 20 and 30 bands, and that entire segment was pasted again and reversed.

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