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In this section of the collage: a fragement from an untitlled cut up by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin.
These sound in these pieces was captured with microphes semiprofessional microphones, photography cameras with video capabilities, or an Edirol® recorder. The sounds were edited using one or more of the following sofware: Soundforge, Audacity, Wiretap, GarageBand, Final Cut Express, or Live.
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Collaborative with Lynda Gupta - MATX 600
Car Wash with NPR Stock Report - KINE 695
MATX 600 - Collaborative piece with Lynda Gupta
The task was 1) to record a classmate telling a story, 2) to edit the story using Soundforge or Audacity, but without consulting the person who told the story. Lynda Gupta narrated a moment of one of her trips to India. The first file is a coherent version of her story, while the second one is one phrase from Lynda's story, but played backwards and with several effects.
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story 2:23 minutes
story pieces, backwards 0:29 seconds
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My final paper was about radio stations in the Williamsburg area. l love music and sound, but one of the places that I do not visit often is Plan 9, because the noise hurts my ears. Perhaps what I cannot stand is the idea of having to buy music, or just the fact that a lot of the music in the store is second hand and therefore people do not care too much if they brake a CD case. The sound was recorded with a photography camera, while the visual was designed with Photoshop.
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Molcajete
The assignment was to make music with rocks, with confined spaces, toys, or water. I wanted to combine as many of the options and also to provide the audience with stimuli for the five senses. I made guacamole with a molcajete—pronounced mol-kah-he-teh, made of lava rock and traditional to southern Mexico—and made the noise with the food and the ingredients. At the end, I had music created with rocks and a toy—to me molcajete is a toy--, and the the audience was able to hear, see, touch, smell and taste the product. Unfortunately, I do not have video or audio of the live presentation, but I made several pieces with the molcajete and a salt shaker.
Molcajete
Molcajete sounds:
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Ringtones
The task was to produce sound with special effects in order to learn how to use sound software. I made a series of ringtones for iPhone and iPod. My idea was to create the anti-ringtone, the tone that negates itself. I used ready-made special effects from the GarageBand library. I made the original music with a small piano keyboard connected to GarageBand.
The anti-ringtones ringtones. To download a ringtone, right-click on the name of the file, save it, and then open it with iTunes. Syncronize your iPhone or iPod to load the ringtone and use it.
Download all five ringtones plus three more click here (.zip)
a. "I don't like ringtones" - mp3 version| download the iPhone version (m4r)
b. "That's my cellphone" - mp3 version | download the iPhone version (m4r)
c. "This is a romantic poem" - mp3 version | download the iPhone version (m4r)
d. "This is not a ringtone" - mp3 version | download the iPhone version (m4r)
e. "Your phone's twitter" - mp3 version | download the iPhone version (m4r)
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Carwash with NPR Stock Report
In this piece I mixed the video of a car wash with the sound of the stock report from the local NPR station and some sound effects. Note that this is a work in progress. I intend to use it as part of a larger video. The "script" for this video is the drawing before the video. Some elements, like the ringtone and telephone conversation are not in current version of the video. They may be added later.
car wash script
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