- Develop one of the pieces begun in today’s session to be played in next week’s session.
- Add the piece, or a part of it, to your blog. Add some annotation to this.
- Reflect on notes taken in today’s session. Consider what aspects of the session may be useful in your personal practice.
During this experimentation, I first started off by reviewing the reading materials and initially found it quite confusing. After some research and listening to sample pieces, the piece that I was most interested in was the musical concrete of Pierre Henry titled Psyche Rock. The introduction of the piece manipulates a combination of a clock chime, wind background with the flute playing the melody of the piece, creating a haunted and creepy theme with the use of a dissonance interval as well as a slow tempo on the flute. Soon I was able to grasp an idea of how sound objects and harmonies could be combined together but failed to come up with my own interpretation or my own idea. I first recorded the clash of cutleries and the rolling sound of a pottery mugs on a wooden surface my initial idea was to somehow mimic the creepy and haunted theme but then after some experimenting I realized that the theme is more reliant on the instrumental melody than the sound effects and that I would have to first create my melody then look for suitable sound and this is my approach for my second experiment. To help me further understand and improve the effectiveness of my approach I then listened to the audio materials provided, the one that i found most interesting was the podcast of “Holly Herndon on Self-Sampling and Emotions Through Music | Red Bull Music Academy” from her podcast i realized that my piece does not have to include instrumental harmonies of any kind and could manipulate the theme and emotion only based on the sampled sounds “I can take that signal and smoothen it, make it very beautiful, make it sound like a violin, or map it to an instrument or do anything with it” Which got me thinking about the final idea of my which is to compose a piece that is only based on recorded sound, manipulating them into melodies.
First I decided on the sound object that I am going to use, which are clashing cutlery sounds, sound of me brushing my teeth as well as a basketball sound, first i manipulated the sound of the tooth brush with a simpler and and created a looped beat as the bass rhythm of the experiment 
After that using the 1-shot mode i created a percussive sound with the use of the sound of a bouncing basketball by first trimming the sound then decreasing the transparency
I also alternated fade in and fade out to smoothen out the sharpness of the start and end toothbrush the pattern created is the twice as fast as the base pattern on the
Lastly i also used the sharp clashing noise of the cutlery for the offbeats of the piece alternating the filter provides a lower muffled clashing noise
I then ended the experiment by adding a melody on the flute
Throughout this experiment I have learnt that any sound could be manipulated into an instrument with a simplier and sampler