Saturday, November 3, 2007
The Next Step
The next step was to think about the backing music to our vocal line. Carla and I discussed the idea of composing something musical but neither of us had much experience in writing japanese pop music. It could possibly been interesting but we decided that we were both more interested in making the pop song more experimental and abstract which works better with our theme. We decided that the composition would include the samples we recorded (most of which we didn't use) to create the backing by altering them to sound as we wished. We were interested in creating the atmosphere of the woods from litte red riding hoods story, so we messed around with the sounds and have so far come up with owls, mouse and bird sound an excellent growl sound from carla and a few other bit and pieces. We decided we wanted some sort of rhythm to the piece (something for the dancing to look for carla suggested), so we thought of footsteps as a kick and leaves on trees to be cymbols. We went out with an Edirol portable recorder to record some sounds in the park. We spent the rest of the week, editing this sounds (using high pass filters to eliminate traffic noise etc). Next week, we will carry on composing sounds and discuss the composition as a whole.
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Notes from tutorial 7/11/07
Your main interest in the relationship between sound and music was noted and discussed. What is particularly interesting is the idea of generating the visuals from the sound rather than creating a score to accompany visuals, and this was discussed. No point, for example, to recreate a visualiser like iTunes or something, though this is clearly not what you had in mind. This appears more to be the realtime interactions between sounds and images, with what could be described as a dynamic relationship rather than a call and response (or cause & effect) one. This discussion took in an indication of your interest in using this as part of a performance environment, to which might be added the complications of improvising by setting up an environment.
We also had some discussion about the nature of technology, and whilst LC and I have differing views about this, you should not feel obliged by either (I am sure you don't), but to use your own interpretation of the place of technology in the creative process, as paart of a content/technology/ideas nexus.
As LC poiinted out, technology in performance can be fragile, and this is worth accounting for (given your preference for some performance component in what you are offering). Issues like redundancy, persistence of certain types of technology, its use and effectiveness and levels of environmental control were also discussed. Your ideas are not expected to be finalised at this stage, but the next step would be to commit them to the dreaded ISP form for submmission.
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