C1_Stanley_Yin

Sound Assignment 2 for CDT208
It was very difficult to do sound because I do not really sing nor play instruments but I just so happened to be watching horror movies right before doing this assignment and was therefore influenced by such. I could only muster very slight differences for each criteria in pitch, volume, location, space and timbre and might be difficult to recognize because the nature of a script rather than an instrumental piece.

C2 Stanley Yin

Attempt at a Japanese lullaby with no experience at all on a MIDI device or piano. 

C4 Stanley Yin

The purpose of our sound piece was to experiment with and play with the idea of bridging the real and the virtual. The piece contains three main audio tracks: two of which are recorded and one that is generated using a MIDI with a duplicate track for contrast. In the creation of this piece, I used a recording of two players playing the game Street Fighter against each other. This was a live tournament setting where there was a crowd. The first "player" played with a PS4 controller while the second player used a MIDI controller. The MIDI controller was mapped to the keys that a computer player would use such as up, down, left, right, punches and kicks.  I recorded the physical sound of the controller of the first player as the first player "played" the game imitating the controls of one player. This was our first audio track. The second player imitated the second player and the keys pressed would create a sound on Soundnation. So as the second player played against the first player, the moves and combos he made directly generated a respective virtual sound in logic. All the meanwhile, I recorded how the audience/crowd cheered as the two players fought against each other. Through this, I wanted the virtual sounds created and recorded to depict the real fight between the two players without any visual aid. This is our interpretation of bridging the virtual with the real.

I imagined this played in a wider open setting like a room that can house a large amount of people reflecting the audience attendance in the original tournament. It would be played with small speakers (like a 5.1 or 7.1 channel speaker) with the satellites surrounding the room for the audience sound (which is at a relatively low volume) and the main "fight" to happen around the center of an edge of the room blasting inwards towards the room.


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