STS349Sushi - Assignment 4

i made thos moser worse

"when a song has a pause in it and the soundcloud waveform spoils it" -aidan

sts349sushi - assignment 3 - shesjustlikeme

STS349sushi Assignment 4 - Down Below

Couldn't help myself, had to add something more to the track other than only drums lmao

Anyways, I tried to do drums on my electronic drum set, but the latency was too much to work with, so I used the drum pads on my keyboard, and fixed them manually.

STS349Sushi - Assignment 4 - Befuddled on a Title

STS349Sushi Assignment 4 - Cashon Drum Kit

i used a multisample drum kit to program a little beat and then tried to play guitar with it.

sts349sushi - assignment 4 - drum thingy

me when i realize techno is all just drum kick snare sounds

STS349Sushi Assignment 4 - drum automation

STS349Sushi Assignment 4 - Drumkit

samples Star Trek episode 2x24 "The Ultimate Computer"

sample from TrekCore.com 
https://trekcore.com/audio/

thanks to Julia, Curro, and everyone else who helped me figure this out

Ultimate Computer Sample - sts349sushi assignment 3

I wanted to play around with an interesting drum kit while also making something more simple instrument-wise. I'm not used to writing drums or rhythms first so it was very challenging. I also wanted to try writing something lower, since higher octaves are more comfortable for me.

drums practice - sts349sushi assignment 4

by Murat Arat (https://on.soundcloud.com/krizs) and Edie Westrich
We sent the .als file back and forth. Murat wrote the main melody, I added harmonies and bass, and we both worked on the production :)
the picture is a collage of our pets

teamwork! -sts349sushi assignment 5

Group Members:
Michelle Beaubrun
Sean Slusarz

STS349Sushi Assignment 5 - Game Console Type Beat

My first "job" at 6 months old was sitting in the freezing cold with my mom at her job as part of a northern antebellum historical reenactment at Genesee Country Village and Museum. The performers/employees would sing carols for holiday guests, O Holy Night being a popular one because of its abolitionist roots.  
I find a lot of inspiration drawn from other time periods, either futuristic or historical. I wanted to sort of fuse a "wasteland" vibe with a very traditional sound (footsteps in the snow, carols, etc.). I used a free version of the song, but for the final i plan on recording my own vocals. I like the mix of a very simple "traditional" piece with something like a theremin, and I plan on adding similar piecemeal elements in the final, mainly radio static.

sts349sushi - assignment 8a

this track is definitely unfinished, I'd have to expand it more, as the final sample should be the end of the track, would need to add more elements to the middle of the track. the process here included taking samples that I found online, including some tiktoks of interesting machinery, and adding and creating loops and sound effects, plus some new ones I got online, to create a 90s/2000s style breakbeat track... I would like to include a drum kit pattern as well, as it will give it a bit more life than just electronic noises, and make a genuine-sounding breakbeat song that you'd hear in a fight scene of a movie or a soundtrack to a game like jet set radio.

STS349Sushi - deliverable: cyberia (working title idk)

i added some vocals and a chorus with some distorted guitars and a big distorted section. definetly straying from the original inspiration here in a good way i think.

sts349sushi - assignment 8.2 - ophelia, i cant feel you (because youre a ghost)

Original text plan: "Sunshine, Caffeine, Fast Cars & Oxygen. Played softly at first, emerging, accelerating, from a fog into crisp sharp highs and long free sweeps. Dreamy, like a toy film camera. A Rush."

Composition notes:
The words that became the title were higher energy then I felt - I decided to make a piece about getting there.
I began with sine waves from Vital synth, microtuned in 7-limit and using the harmonic series preset, and used only the low number fractional intervals found in the early part of the harmonic series - beginning with the root, fifth, major third, minor seventh, and finally including a major second, each approximated using just intonation rather than their equal tempered values.
I wanted to move from something foggy, unsettling and dissonant at first to something more buzzed, wired, consonant and major key as the listener 'wakes up'.

Mastering notes:
After completing the draft, I widened and stereoized it in Ozone Imager to give the track more space and airiness, like the wide blue sky of a new day that inspired the piece.

Samples include:
Zhea Erose - Sola [31edo]
Tiësto - I Belong to You (Axel Bauer & Lanford Remix)
Airplane flyover

Software used:
Ableton Live 11 Standard
Vital Spectral Warping Wavetable Synth
Ozone Imager 2

Deliverable #2 - CAW - Sunshine, Caffeine, Fast Cars & Oxygen (stereo)

I tried to do vocals but i lost my voice. then i kept trying to do vocals, it sounded bad, so i tried leaning in to it

the speech is FDR’s holiday Fireside Chat from 1944

STS349Sushi Assignment 4 - Drumkit

Murat arat

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