I can't believe it's been almost a month since I last wrote on here. yowsa! I'm about halfway done with my project! There's been a lot to fix using melodyne since I didn't look at the parts before I recorded them, so I'm really learning the program. I'm not sure if that's a good thing though...it seems like cheating to me. So I feel oddly guilty using it.
I have also decided that music created with sounds and using computers and such is freaking awesome, but I don't think I personally have the same respect for that kind of music than for all the practice and skill that goes into learning an instrument and perfecting that. Maybe I am just too traditional...je ne sais pas. I'm going to get to work on my project now. I think I'll write a post about the art gallery later.

I've decided for my final project to record myself playing all four parts separately of a quartet, maybe a string quartet, and then put them together. I think learning how to record will be good for me. Although I also think the kaossilator is really awesome.
On a different topic, I'm super hungry right now, and I have a lot of tricky Bartok-ness I need to make wonderful as soon as possible.

At first I was really scared to do the circuit bending project, I suppose mostly because it's something sooo unfamiliar to me. But after the first week of working, and after finding some cool sounds, it became my favorite project of the class so far.
I'm kind of bummed that my toy ended up dying though. I found one bend that would make a repeating sound whenever the button was pressed. It was really neat because the sound would keep going, but it would get stuck in a loop. The other bend I found was a high pitched buzzing noise. Unfortunately either after burning off one of the resistors or maybe drilling through the board was not a good thing. I found that it was really hard to solder as tiny as I needed to, because I kept shorting out the circuits so nothing would happen at all. That is probably due to my inefficiency in soldering.

Now I have to think of a final project. I don't know what to do!!!!!

happy square root day

I have finished my finale project! I actually had a lot of fun arranging the piece, Albeniz's Tango in D, originally a piano piece, for two celli (that word looks strange) and b-flat clarinet. There is something about the timbres of clarinet and cello together that just works...and the more low strings the better. yah!

When I posted my song before apparently it was a garage band file, so this is hopefully the mp3.

http://www.box.net/shared/qv8o1lm3u2

http://www.box.net/shared/tktj7mdro7

I started really working on the soundclips project a couple days ago. I was getting a bit frusterated at first because it was not like I intended. When I fit together some of the different sound clips it was like something from a really bad horror movie soundtrack, with a metallic gong sound combined with echoing violin scalar passages, or something close to that. It wasn't necessarily bad, just definately not what I wanted. SOooo, i got rid of those and semi-started over, and it's turning out better. :)
Alrighty, I should get some sleep so I can spend tommorow morning in the little cell also known as a practice room.