UBUWeb Sound Artist

I chose the artist Dave Soldier on the website UBUwebsound, and a project he did in 1996 called The Peoples Choice Music



http://www.ubu.com/sound/soldier.html

The first track is the most "wanted" song in the human population, according to a survey Dave Soldier conducted. He had the participants choose their favorite instrument combinations. The most likeable song will be liked by 72% +/- 12% of the population. The track consists of guitar, piano, bass, male and female vocals,saxophone, drums, cello, violin and a synth. The voices are singing in rock/r&b style. Everything in the track is moderate ( volume, pitch, duration and tempo)

The second track is the most "unwanted" song. It has varying tempos, volumes and pitches and lasts almost 25 minutes long. The instruments in this track are the bagpipes, accordion, banjo, flute, tuba, harp, synth and organ. The themes in the song range from ad jingles, to christmas songs, to childrens songs. Cowboys were also a very unpopular theme. The vocals feature a soprano opera singer singing rap lyrics. Statistically less than 200 people in the world will like this track.

I chose this piece because I found it really interesting the statistics of sound. it seems almost biologically humans are drawn to some sounds more than others. However personally I really dislike the first track, and would almost rather listen to the second track as at least it is exciting. The first track sounds like the majority of music in the "soft rock" category.

Live PA Performance

So the performance for my Digital Studio Discplinary class is nearing! My semester's work on Ableton Live will be shown, as well as two other local producers.
Here is the flyer for the event

Melody Project

This is my final piece for Daniel Dugas's sound class, the melody assignment.
Since it is the end of the semester, and I have been focusing on learning the program Ableton Live, I decided to use Live to create my melody.
While at first I tried making the regular downtempo/ambient beats that I usually make, I found myself playing in the housey keys MIDI instrument on Live. I decided to try to create a house track, as it is a genre I am not very comfortable working within and I thought it would be an interesting challenge.
While the beats in house music follow the traditional 4/4 pattern, I found myself having to find different variations on the same beat structure, to keep the pattern consistent but not boring.
This project was challenging however really enjoyable as well as I learned a lot about the "building blocks" of house music.

Dinos!

This is a project for my sound class in which I made Dinosaur sounds from other samples. I had some problems with my cubase, so I mixed it in ableton, all live! A different approach but it worked nonetheless. I used lots of animal samples off the American Fish and Wildlife websites and put audio effects such as grain delays and pitch modulation on them, and of course played with the speed. I used about 30 samples in this almost 4 minute clip. I made the sounds of an Albertasaurus, Pterodactyl, and Brontosaurus...