Fibonacci Music
Create a piece of music where every element relates back to the fibonacci series or the golden ratio. The piece can be 55 seconds or 89 seconds long, 55 bars or 89 bars long, 3 minutes or 5 minutes long. Scales can be derived from fibonacci ratios. Changes will fall on fibonacci bars. One catch: […]
Project: 3 style Journey (Sonic Triptych)
Create an epic narrative with music/sound. The journey will start in one style/genre/etc move to a second and seamlessly evolve to a third. Create the magic. Post online Submit the finished work via this link.
Music Edit for Commercial
For this assignment you will be selecting and/or editing music to match a 30-second TV commercial. Your goal is to use music to best sell the product and emotionally reinforce the imagery. Steps: 1. Find and download a commercial online (keep the sound muted to not bias yourself). 2. Import the commercial into your DAW, […]
Matching Emotion
For this assignment you will be selecting and/or editing music to match a 30-second TV commercial. Your goal is to use music to best sell the product and emotionally reinforce the imagery. Steps: 1. Find and download a commercial online (keep the sound muted to not bias yourself). 2. Import the commercial into your DAW, […]
Breaking the Mold (project 2).
Building on the ideas of getting out of your musical rut, produce a musical piece (2-4 minutes) where you push your own musical boundaries. Note what you work with most often, or most regularly, avoid repeating the use of those tools or the musical patterns/practices. For most of you, beats and loops must be avoided. […]
Music and Media 1
For this assignment you will be selecting a clip and writing a brief report. Find a scene from a movie where music profoundly changes your emotional experience. Prove this to yourself by playing some other music while watching the same scene. Re-review this scene without looking at the screen, just listen. Write about the music you […]
Slow-motion effects
For this Lab we will experiment with slow motion effects. The artistic goal is to be able to create a moment where time slows down. The technical goal is to build your sound design vocabulary and tool kit. Quickly find or film a moment of slow motion in an action sequence. Explore these effect processes […]
Breaking the mold
For this Lab project you will be constrained in the sense that you MUST break old habits. No using presets, Loops, pre-existing samples. In fact, we will extend this a little further. No using beats. Create a work of sound/music art using textures and tones but not loops or beats. You may use any song […]
Dialog re-record and refine
Start with your dialog lab project and continue to improve it. Work in groups to divide the labor. Re-record any voices that did not sound like the person who you see on screen. Refine the edits and mixing so that each of the voices sound even in terms of volume or level. Upload and submit […]
Dialog Edit
For this lab you will edit dialog recordings to line up with your production dialog (the clip you used). Import the production (the full clip, audio only) into your DAW on track 1. Import your best ADR takes into your DAW using a different track for each actor/character. Edit the ADR takes until they line […]
Intensional: Tension & Release
For this lab you will create a short song/expert where you have intentionally created a sequence of tension and release with loops. By thinking in the pattern of same, same, different, you can avoid too much repetition. If needed, Analyze a good song for where it has repetition and changes. If needed, Analyze a good […]
Dialog Capture Homework
For this project you will work with a classmate to record dialog for a movie clip. Select a fun movie clip 1.5-3 minutes long. There should be at least two people talking, arguing, speaking a lot. Divide up the tasks of who will record which voices. You can work together in one location, or you […]
Sound walk
We often think of narrative in terms of visual story telling. For this exercise we will tell a brief story by putting sounds together to create a narrative with out visuals. Sketch a story, or outline, of imaginary “path”. Find/Create/Record the sounds you would hear if you were to travel through your story. Organize, sequence […]
CMA Project 1
Working with constraints. You have only 3 source ingredients for this project. white noise, download here if needed. sine waves, download here if needed. A break beat. for example: Amenbreak. Using only these sounds, create a compelling EDM piece around 3 minutes long. You may edit these sounds, transpose them and mix/remix them. Feel free to […]
Presentation Rig 2015
Previously I have discussed presenting and teaching using digital whiteboards instead of slides and mirrored screens showing tools and technology at work. You can see some of these writings and rants here. Recently, I found my favorite digital white board technology, Jot for iOS and its most useful support tool www.jotwithme.com were somehow blocked at […]
