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Generative & Dynamic Sound for your Projects

Workshop June 2017

Note: Show screen with QuickTime, New Movie Recording, and a Connected iOS Device.

Sound is often an important part of installations, visuals, and other types of projects. In this session, we will learn how to develop a sonic awareness, capture field recordings, and use them with app called Field Scraper to created generative compositions. You do not need to be a musician or familiar with sound.

To follow along with the class I recommend getting the Field Scraper app, or you can always take notes and follow along afterward.

Resources

Download FieldScaper

Voice Memos App on iPhone

Why is sound important?

Sound has the ability to transform or augment an experience, change the context of space & images, and should be considered as components of a project.

Sound vs. Music

There is not a clear agreement among the general public about what is music and what is sound. One way to think is that sound is the raw material for music. Many artists decide to blur the boundaries between the two, bring up the timeless question "when does sound become music?". It becomes even trickier when we add generative elements, where the hand of the "author" is not at work.

Example 1 - John Cage

Example 2 - John Cage Interview

Example 3 - Pauline Oliveros

Example 4 - Pauline Oliveros Ted Talk

Example 5 - Dream House

Example 6 - BRDG - Fave

Exampe 7 - Ryoichi Kurokawa

Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros is a big influence of mine because she taught people to focus on sound through her method called Deep Listening. Following her ideas as change the way I’ve listened to music but also the way I experience spaces

  • She transformed the experience of sound into a method of meditation and experience
  • Separating sound, listening for differences, listening for direction

Working with Fieldscraper

  • Example 1 (Impos)
  • Example 2 (Reso voices)
  • Example 3 (Starter Ambient)
  • Example 4 (Second Ambient)
  • Example 5 - Raw Sounds

Main Screen

Our raw material is our field recording.

  • Familiartiy with sound?
  • Gettings sounds
    • freesounds.org
      • Download from free sounds
      • Add to dropbox or use web access
    • Field recordings
    • Dropbox
    • Web Access
    • Direct Recording
      • Correct levels
  • Re-recording a sound
    • Where to find it?
  • Recording Settings
    • Audio Input
    • Monitoring
    • Recording Start and Stop
    • Scraper Start
  • What is OSC?
    • 3 Osc/Samples/Recordings
  • Presets
    • Comes with a set of pre-built effects
    • Effect modulation
    • OSC Volume
  • Navigation Bar
    • Osc
    • Filter
    • Scenes
    • Settings
    • Looper
    • Recod
    • Help

OSC Menu and Sound Basics

  • Clock
    • Speed
    • Reverse
    • Aaf?
    • Clock offset
  • Masks
    • Mask Selector
    • Mask Shifter
  • Distort
    • Lofi
    • Dig
    • Overdrive
    • Nos?
    • Ringmodulator
    • Trimodulator
  • LFOs (Low Frequency Oscillator)
    • Lot of the terms come from working with analog electronics
    • The LFO would actually modifiy the signal and flow
    • Can be applied to almost all of the parameters
    • Clock/Speed
    • Range/Time
    • Depth
    • Effect
      • How much the Main Effect changes the LFO
    • Applying it to a parameter
    • Grouping

Filter Tab

  • Filter
    • Frequency
      • Low pass
      • High pass
      • Band pass
      • Band stop filder
    • Resonance
  • Delay
    • 0.5, 2, Single Delay, Hic (Eliminates unwanted high frequencies), Invert Phase Left, Invert Phase Right
    • Time (Delay time)
    • Feedback (Number of repeats)
  • Mixer / Master Effects
    • Distance
      • Reverb
      • Narrow (lower stereo base)
      • Blur (Works well with Refl and Spc)
      • HiC (cuts the highs)
      • Reflection (adds more reflections)
      • Space (Adds space)
    • Panorama

Editing your sounds

  • Zooming in

  • Selecting right/left channel, to view

  • Setting In and Out point

  • Alg finds points of silenct for cleaner trims

  • Min analyzes the file to fine appropriate in out points

  • Output your recordings

  • If you want to send me your recordings. matthew.scott.ortega@gmail.com

Homework

Last 30 minutes is to go collect some sounds from the floor and come back to see if we can transform some of them 15/15

  • Spend the next 15 minutes trying to collect a couple of recordings. See if just in the space at ITP if you can find anything different and interesting.
  • The next 15 minute we will present what we found.