AA 1 Sem 2 Project 'Airport'

The project for the second semester was to recreate a sound scape that we had previously recorded. My sound scape of the airport recorded from one of the observation points had the airport in front and a busy road behind, as a result many of the sounds that I reproduced I was able to by filtering white noise. All inall the project ended up creating a lot of headaches for me, from the time management point of virw through to samples the sounded ok is one program having clicks when put into Cubase. Anyway throughout the entire process I did learn a fair bit, meaning how I won't approach a project like this in the future.

Airport mp3

CC 1 Sem 2 Project "Eno in the Mist"

This electric/acoustic performance piece created a few problems, the major one being that just prior to the performance and recording date my performer had to pull out. This meant a totally new project had to be devised and another performer found. The original idea was conceived to involve the didgeridoo as the instrument so this piece which involves electric guitar meant a whole different approach. The piece, with Tristan Louth-Robins on guitar is my representation of what is happening in relation to the logging of the rain forests. Bar the sounds of the forest and the wind (which were generated using Plogue FFT bidules, spectral gates) the rest of the sounds are that of the guitar, both playing live and sampled loops that were recorded prior to performance. Below is a screen shot of the Plogue patch used plus a mp3 of the piece titled 'Eno in the Mist'.

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Eno in the Mist. mp3.

Haines, C. 2007. Audio Arts Lectures- Semester 2 at the University of Adelaide. July to October.

AA 1 Sem 2 week 11

This weeks exercise was create sounds via the spectral bidules in Plogue. The above screenshot of the patch shows what I first used to create the samples in the mp3 at the bottom of this blog, (all were made from an oscillator with its wave type set to noise).

In the next patch, pictured below I tried running a loop of the mp3 sample (below) as well as a version of the same sample reversed and looped. One problem I found with this set up where the magnitudes and frequencies of both samples were multiplied and the merged was that the output of the signal clipped immediately, so much so I had to add a gain bidule in which I cut the amplitude by an absurd amount. While at home and pondering this patch, (Icould work on it at home as the trial period had lapsed) I have come up with an approach that I will try out but wont be in time for this blog. The plan is to have white noise in one babooche player, whilst the other will have a sample consisting of a number of sine waves, (possibly configured similar to the harmonic series), the sign wave samples will then be subtracted from the noise sample. Other aspects to this could include the use of magnitude and frequencies gates as well as bringing in samples from Spear which have been manipulated.

Sample mp3.

Haines. C. 2007. Audio Arts Lecture at the University of Adelaide. October 16.

CC 1 Sem 2 week 10b

This week’s exercise in CC1 was to elaborate on last weeks samples. This week, working with Fred May, in addition to running the guitar through the Mbox and adding effects, we linked the modulation of an oscillator running into a parameter modulator (abs) to both the pan of one of the channels in the mixer as well as to the wet/dry of the phase bidule. Two recorders were also attached; the first was a direct line out from the Mbox bidule which we used to record samples that were played back into the system using a Rewire of Live Bidule. The second recorder was used to record the entire performance. Above is a picture of the bidule patch we used whilst below is a screenshot of the Live window.

CC1 week 10 mp3.

Ableton 2006, Live. Digidesign Edition Owner's Manual, Ableton.<http://www.ableton.com/>. Accessed 11/07/2007.

Haines, C. 2007. Creative Computing Lecture at the University of Adelaide. October 11.

AA 1 Sem 2 week 10

This weeks exercise was to make up an Additive synth in Plogue's Bidule. After doing the readings I made up the synth above which had six oscillators with the settings for phase, amplitude and which harmonic being adjustable. I had intended to include an ADSR on each of the oscillators but didn't quite know how to attach it as it doesn't have a simple input and output, instead it has triggers and gates which was a little confusing. (I am planning on going over the tutorial on building the Juno synth done earlier this year, hopefully this will show how to add an ADSR). The first the sound examples are using the patch above whilst the last was using the patch below which was suggested by Tristan Louth-Robins.

AA 1 Sem 2 Week 10 mp3

Haines, C. 2007. Audio Arts Lecture at the University of Adelaide. October 9.

CC 1 Sem 2 week 9

This weeks exercise was to work with a partner and to route an instrument through Plogue's Bidule via the Mbox. My partner was Darren Slynn and we ended up downloading the bidule patch and playing around with it. We ended up keeping the Mono ITU Mixer, which was configured for surround sound and just routed each channel into a stereo recorder. We also played around with different effects. The sample mp3 below has a delay, two different phasers, a reverb and a pitch shift connected. During the performance, approx. two thirds of the way in tone of the phasers was played around with to give the piece a little more variety.

CC 1 week 9

Haines, C. 2007. Creative Computing Lacture at the University of Adelaide. October 4.

AA 1 Sem 2 week 9

This week the class investigated FM synthesis using Plogue's Bidule. I found the Miranda reading to be the most helpful as the other reading just seemed to be going over formulas for calculating band width. Any way from just the basic FM synth patch shown to us in class I found a number of interesting sounds, the number of different settings is incredible when you take in to consideration all the possible combinations of merely just the wave patterns let alone the variable settings (freq. and amplitude).

The first three examples were done on the above FM synth while the last is on the synth below. Also see below the mp3 sample of the sounds.

FM Synth.mp3

Haines, C. 2007. Audio Arts lecture at the University of Adelaide. October 2