For AUD 405 assessment 2 I chose to create a track with my interpretation of minimalism music.

Minimalist music is a steady pulse, status or gradual transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs and cells. Also includes aspects of the additive process and phase shifting.

I approached my mix with the intention of creating repetitive phrases which gradually transforms over time, by the end of the song it’s changed quite a bit from the start and hopefully it’s not an obvious transformation.

My source sounds were
Sound 1- driving around the block in my car with zoom recorder sitting on passenger seat.
Sound 2- walking around the streets of south Melbourne with zoom in hand.
Sound 3- walking into studio 1 music in background, Simon speaking.

I found 6, interesting sounds out of these 3 clips and began processing each sound, I used a combination of TCE, heavy compression, pitch shift, time shift, EQ, vari-ble and limiting to get the final result. I set a tempo, put protools in grid mode and used TCE to make sound fit into the tempo, once I had a 8 bar loop I duplicated it for the whole 1 min. I then went back and made subtle rhythmic changes and pitch shifts, so as the track goes on some sounds are slowly being pitched up and some pitched down.


Marquis