Alteration

On Wednesday Carla and I got our samples to playback using the suit successfully. The resulting sound was really cool but not what we wanted as the vocal line to our song. Mainly because of the lack of melodic range in the samples. We had a go at transposing the samples to create different pitches to each of the samples but the result didn't sound natural. After having a chat with Lamberto we decided to record the words in the samples but to different tones so that if they were played in succession they would form a melody. The interesting thing about it was that we could use the chopped up words or sometimes reversed words and sing it phonetically which would enhance the result with respect to our idea of singing a foreign language.

In our Performance with Technology session today, Jonathon mentioned that we could do a something similar but in a live performance. Where we would have a singer singing into a mic and the words could be played back jumbled up through speakers.

In relation to capturing our melody next week using the rerecorded samples and the MIDI suit, the combination of movements could either be random, or be intended. I personally think that the MIDI suit should be used in the same why as an instrument, so we spend a bit of time familiarising ourselves with what movements activate what samples and make an artistic decision as to what combination of movements should be used to form the melody- and also what of the question about the piece being played live? should probably be discussed.