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Blog - Audacity stuff

Page history last edited by PBworks 17 years ago

 

Since we are revisiting past blogs this week, i wanted to revisit the freesound, but I ended up becoming more interested in the audacity program that Trey mentioned. I did not do a past blog on it....but I hope this will still suffice for the "building on previous blogs" blog for the week.

I have been having a blast the last couple of hours figuring out how to use the audacity program (Aaron is sick in bed, so I have lots of time on my hands). Ive been throwing random songs in there from my mp3 library and mixing them up, sounds a lot like mush most of the time, but trust me it's fun stuff. The links lead to a separate page where you can (hopefully) play my troped up mp3s (at your own risk).

 

-So for attempt the first, I took some noises from freesound and an mp3 of my own and cut them up and overlaid them...i call it, Kittens and didgeridoos. This is the simplist trope I made with audacity, and because of it's simplicity i think it is my favorite. short and sweet.

 

-The second go at it was slightly different. instead of something completely random like furry animals and funny named instruments, I wanted to do something to appeal to the musician in me. I like finding patterns in the discord of polyrhythms, so i took two Tool songs with different time signatures and overlaid them. One song is "Vicarious" which is in 5/4 time (i believe) and the other is Aneama which is in god knows what time signature, it changes every three seconds (3/4, 5/4, 6/8 ???). This one sounds kinda like mush, but if you can get past that, its pretty nifty to hear the two songs seemingly talking back and forth, and then come together. beware its long (about 7 minutes or so). I call this one tool in discord.

 

-Finally the third attempt...oh my the third attempt. There's a story behind this one. So I was playing with kittens and didgeridoos trope when my mom came in and became oddly interested in what i was doing. So i asked her what were a few of her favorite songs that came to mind. First she said anything by Ray Stevens (she said his songs are funny and they remind her of her childhood), then she mentioned this "ding-a-ling" song by Chuck Berry, she then mentioned any song by Asia, and she said her favorite song of all is Louis Armstrong's "What a wonderful world." ....Out of that i got this song...appropriately called Ode to mom. (It starts out with Stevens' yakkity yak, goes into Berry's my ding-a-ling, finishes out with Asia's heat of the moment, and it has what a wonderful world playing underneath it the whole time.)

I had to delete the last mp3 (odetomom) because there was no more room for files (and it was a really big file), so just imagine what it might sound like...sorry)

If you actually listened to all three songs in their entirety, Im sorry for any pain i have caused your ears... This was lots of fun for me to do, but i know they sound a lot like mush mush mush, just wanted to make a blog out of it because it kinda flows with the "remixing" segment of the semester, remixing things, cutting them up, and smushing them together again. I suggest you guys try it, its good stuff, kind of addicting, so it makes for a good time waster. :)

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