STS349Sauce Final Assignment

Electronic Music in Practice Assignments

This piece is for the first assignment in my Electronic Music in Practice class. We were tasked with using 1 MIDI instrument and writing something 1-2 minutes in length.

To find the instrument I used, I browsed the instrument rack. Eventually I found this organ + synth sound that I really liked. As for the chords, I just picked a few 7th chords in C major. Eventually I settled into a progression I liked and that's what I used for the assignment.

STS349Sauce - Assignment 1

This piece is for the second assignment in my Electronic Music in Practice class. We were tasked with revising assignment 1 by changing and improving the track.

For the instrument, I stuck with the same one as Assignment 1. In terms of how I revised the track, I cut out some repetitive parts. Once I did that, I had space to add some new ideas. My MIDI controller has an arpeggiator, so that is what I used for the second half of this assignment. I stuck with the same chords, but the arpeggiator added something new to those chords, as well as giving the track a more energetic sound. Near the end, I used my modulation wheel to change the tone of the instrument. At the same time, I decreased the pitch by using the pitch bend wheel. Lastly, I faded out the volume to add a sense of closure near the end of the piece.

STS349Sauce - Assignment 2

This piece is for the third assignment in my Electronic Music in Practice class. We were tasked with sampling an audio clip and changing it. The original song is Heal, from the video game ICO.

I approached this assignment by first chopping up some parts I liked from the original track. As for the audio editing, I mainly slowed down some parts. I also reversed some parts and clipped them to sound distorted. When I was finishing up the assignment I noticed the master volume was redlining. This is something that normally should be avoided, but I liked how it changed the sound. Since the audio was distorted from my editing, I leaned into that distorted feel by keeping the redlining master track. My idea with this track was to make it sound glitched out, as if the game CD was corrupted or had scratches.

STS349Sauce - Assignment 3

This piece is for the fourth assignment in my Electronic Music in Practice class. We were tasked with using 1 drum kit and writing something 1-2 minutes in length.

To approach this assignment, I first spend 30ish minutes finding a kit I liked. I specifically wanted something where one of the sounds was a bass sound. Once I came across this boom bap kit I just hit record and started improvising. I kept improvising until I found a clip I was satisfied with, and I used the pads on my MIDI controller to play the kit.

STS349Sauce - Assignment 4

This piece is for the fifth assignment in my Electronic Music in Practice class. We were tasked with making a 1-2 minute piece with a classmate or two.

I worked with Matthew and Gabriel. Gabriel started off the project by writing the chords and melody, then he sent that audio file to both of us. Matthew then came up with some percussion using a drumkit. After that, I came up with the bassline. I picked a synth bass sound to stick with the futuristic sound of Gabriel's contribution to the track.

STS349Sauce - Assignment 5 (Nour, Matthew, and Gabriel)

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STS349Sauce - Assignment 9 - Final Countdown

This piece is for my final assignment of my Electronic Music in Practice class. We were tasked with making a piece that uses the info and knowledge we gained throughout the semester.

I wanted to go for a slower, relaxed sound with the piece. The first thing I did with this piece is come up with the chord progression using a piano MIDI instrument. After that, I wanted to come up with some percussion. I struggled with that so instead I chose a drum loop I found on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BNcYhdoPWo). After I had those two parts down I made a simple bass line that outlines the roots of the piano chords using an upright bass MIDI instrument. The last part was coming up with the flute melody that comes in a little later in the track.

STS349Sauce - Assignment 9

Nour Mohamed