Category Archives: Creative Sound Project Element 2

Week 29: Student Presentations (Gareth Mitchell)

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Week 27: Controllerism and Interactivity (Gareth Mitchell)

(Insert recorded audio) After this session I realized that the Korg Volca series offers a compact palette for sound exploration. The Volca FM allows me to delve into FM synthesis and create evolving timbres. The Volca Beats provides an analog … Continue reading

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Week 25: Creative Synthesis 2: Analog Synthesis
 (Gareth Mitchell)

Time period  Key Equipment Early Modular Synthesizers (1960s-1970s) Buchla Music EaseBuchla Modular Music SystemMoog Modular Synthesizers Semi-Modular and Monophonic Synthesizers (1970s) Minimoog ARP OdysseyRoland SH-1000SH-2000  Polyphonic Synthesizers (1970s-1980s) Polymoog Prophet-5 Jupiter-8Juno-106 Oberheim OB-Xa Example pieces: Core Techniques and Terminology: Subtractive Synthesis The process of … Continue reading

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Week 24: Creative Synthesis 1 – Digital Synthesis
 (Gareth Mitchell)

The history of digital synthesis traces its roots back to the pioneering experiments with computer music in the 1950s and 1960s, such as the MUSICOMP and MUSIC-N programs which paved the way for early commercial digital synthesizers like the Fairlight … Continue reading

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Week 23: Sound Objects, Sampling and Music Concrète
 (Gareth Mitchell)

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 … Continue reading

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My initial idea before starting the course

in element 2 we suppose to create our own compositions, i have firstly thought about the theme. Where i want the compositions to be about my mental state at the moment, i consider the artwork can only be emotional and … Continue reading

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