The second assignment is to create a composition in Digital Performer using digital audio that you have gathered and modified as your sole material. The piece should be between 1'00" and 3'00", depending on the density and complexity of the composition. The source audio can be collected by signing out the studio's portable MiniDisc recorder, or recorded using the microphones in the studio. This material can be processed using a sound editor such as Peak, then assembled, edited, and mastered in Digital Performer. Your piece will be evaluated based on the technical competence in the recording and processing of the sounds, on the timbral interest of the samples, and on the creativity and coherence of the composition.
The finished composition will be exported as an audio file, burned onto a CD-R, and submitted at the beginning of class on October 24th.
Suggestion:
You may use a text (out of copyright, such as those found below) as a starting point. You could use a recording of someone reading the text as sonic material for processing, and/or you could aim to create other sounds that evoke images of the text.
| e.e. cummings
(1894-1963) these children singing in stone a these children singing in stone a silence of stone these little children wound with stone flowers opening for ever these silently lit tle children are petals their song is a flower of always their flowers of stone are silently singing a song more silent than silence these always children forever singing wreathed with singing blossoms children of stone with blossoming eyes know if a lit tle tree listens forever to always children singing forever a song made of silent as stone silence of song | Denise Levertov (1923 - ) October Certain branches cut certain leaves fallen the grapes cooked and put up for winter mountains without one shrug of cloud no feint of blurred wind-willow leaf-light their chins up in the blue of the eastern sky their red cloaks wrapped tight to the bone |
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