Forum Sem 2 week 3

I ended up missing this lesson but found that that MTF Videos were great and reasonably easy to follow. I found it interesting playing around with the breadboard. I found my breadboard to be a little touchy, it didn't always produce sound when everything was connected and at times there seemed to be a bit of static or white noise that interfered with the sound. This was the only problem with just relying on and following the videos, I didn't quite know where the problems emanated from, would've been helpful to have Seb around. Anyway still found this forum intriguing and have posted a sample below.

Sample

Forum Sem 2 week 2

This week in forum we were introduced to soldering and also got to wire up a piezo pick up. One of the exercises was to record some things using this piezo pickup. I ended up first of all sticking the piezo inside a piano, then I attached it to a guitar and in the final recording the piezo was connected to one of the windows in studio 5. The last example I thought gave some amazing results. See the examples below.



Guitar mp3



Piano mp3

Window mp3

CC 1 Sem 2 week 3

This weeks exercise was to improve last weeks synth by completing tutorials 2 & 3 of Plogue Bidule. I found tutorial 2 to be extremely difficult and long and tiresome. It ended up taking me a while to complete and even now I feel that I'm going to go over the patch to try and fully understand what was done to the synth. Tutorial 3 was a little easier to follow but I still think it would be useful to look at whats happening in Bidule (with the individual bidules) in class. I think to be able to fully utilise this program intimate knowledge of the individual bidules is vital.

Week 3 Sample

Bidule Patch

CC 1 Sem 2 week 2

This weeks exercise is to create a synth using Plogue Bidule. I've found that while the program is great there are some minor bugs such as at times there has been clicking when notes are played, I'm not quite sure what caused it but it is only a small annoyance.

Week 2 Bidule Sample
Bidule Patch

Haines, C. 2007. Lecture, "Creative Computing". 2 August.

AA 1 Sem 2 week 4

The Magic Fridge Commercial.wmv

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For this weeks exercise I chose two contrasting commercials. The first is a Bud Light beer commercial named the Magic Fridge which I found on the net. This commercial is aimed at males (mostly young), and this is reflected in its sound design with mechanical sounds and 'cool' funky music. The use of these sounds enhances the advertisements, for instance the revolving wall sound gives the feeling that the mechanism is in fact real.

The second commercial I selected (Shi Jano) at first I figured was a quick way to finish this blog with as it only has dialogue all the way through (I wasn't sure whether I was going to use it). On reflection and after analysing it I figured it was a good contrast to the Magic Fridge. The product Shi Jano is some kind of youth cream and so probably aimed at the middle aged women. The way that the commercial is structured is to give somewhat of a news/information report. I believe that they wanted this ad to feel more like an informative program rather than like your average commercial. I think that the lack of jingles slogans and the like kind of proves this.

Haines, C. 2007. Lecture "Sound Design- Audio Arts." 14 August.

AA 1 Sem 2 week 3

For this weeks exercise the two scenes I picked to analyse are from "Star Wars (4) - A New Hope." I picked these scenes because I'd always thought that the sound design in these movies was amazingly good. On analysis I found that there was even more going on in the background of the movie than what I had remembered. In all of the scenes that I was considering there were no moments of absolute silence, an example of this are the scenes on the Deathstar, even when there is no dialogue you could here the humming of the Deathstar's machines in the background.

Haines, C. 2007. Lecture: "Sound Design- Audio Arts". 7 August.

AA 1 Sem 2 week 2

This weeks exercise was to map out and record a sample of sound at a location of our own choice. I chose to record approx. 2 mins. sitting on the metal seats just out front of the music library. The recording was made on a laptop using it's internal microphone so the quality isn't the best but I was still amazed at the multitudes of sounds that I never realised were there until I listened to the playback. Below is the sound sample.

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Haines, C. 2007. "Audio Arts- Sound Design" Lecture at University of Adelaide. 31 July.

CC 1 Sem 2 week 1

This week in Creative Computing we were introduced to Plogue's Bidule. On playing around with the program I found it to be very user friendly. At home after installing the program I started by opening up every Bidule as this way I could see what colour inputs and outputs each bidule had. I think this is one of the best features in that white outputs can only connect to white inputs and so forth for the blue input/outputs. After creating a few pieces I've found that a lot of clicks were starting to appear, I'm not quite sure why as I've played with Bidule on at least three different computers and the clicks are still appearing.

Week 1 sample

Bidule File

Haines, C. 2007. "Creative Computing" Lecture at the University of Adelaide. 26 July.

Forum Sem 2 week 1

This weeks forum has taken the class in a new direction, this being the construction of our own instruments. The session started off with an outline to the course for this semester, then the class was taken over by Seb Tomczak ,who began to instruct the forum on how to construct a Victorian Synth (pictured right). The synth consists of a speaker (with the leads still attached), a few leads with clips attached and a 9 volt battery. Once all the leads are connected except for the last, the synth is then played by touch the leads together which completes the circuit. Even though it was a very basic instrument it was still possible to get a number of sounds out of it. I found that it was a great introduction to this subject. Below is a sample M4V clip of the synth in action, just be careful with the sound level as it's pretty loud once the svnth kicks in.

Vic Synth SampleMpeg4 video file

Tomczak, S. 2007. "Forum Workshop" at the University of Adelaide. 26 July.