Sound Exercise 2

Sound Exercise 1

test for SoundCloud

Sound Exercise 3 Zoomix

This sound is the sonic narrative I design for the story of the Two Large Stones. The story is one part of the book Mouse Soap by Arnold Lobel. The story states that two large stones stay in the one side of the hill. The information from the bird break their feelings because they know the another side of the hill have towns and castles. They think they stay in this side is bad than another and feel sad. After long time, one day, the mouse come and tell them the another side just remain the flowers and grass which same as this side. The feeling of the two large stones from sad to happy. For my sound project of this story, First I think that it is a sonic narrative so it should like the real music that has the complete melody and it can follow the emotion change of the story. I choice the guitar and try to build the music. The music bases on the emotion of the two stones in the story. It is from happy to sad and from sad to happy. I build the guitar sound has also three part to show changes. It is the first time I use the keyboard of the computer to make guitar music. I have to divide the sound in so many small parts and play them on the keyboard step by step. I edit the sounds from the Logic Pro X to make the sounds which represent the bird and the mouse and set them at the time when two animals occur in this sonic narrative. The part of “two stones felt sad for one hundred years” I also edit the sounds of the instrument in the application. I try to make the sound feel more deep and heavy and add a few noise of the wind and rain to present the lone time and sad emotion. This version of the sonic narrative feels like simple and light. The sad emotion part of the story should be added more sounds and change the melody. I will edit it later.

Sonic Narrative Two Stones

The sound of the ArmoredMech we made by Logic Pro X is designed like the war robot sound. We decide to show the case that a armored machine of the super computer fight in the war. It uses the cannon and has the two-feet structure. It works, shots and moves to the far place.  We use the sound sources from the Freesound.com and BFXR.net to mix this sound. It includes the working sound, the system sound, the shoot sound (cannon) and the movement sound. We also record our own sound and mix it became a part of the machine work sound. To make the sound of the case more real, we found some sounds which are real machines recordings from the Freesound.com. When we mix them, the sound feel like the real robot work.

Ningtian Ruan