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Click. Click. Click.

Using one loop, we've been asked to put together three 20 second pieces using the program Radial. This is not an easy task. Especially not, considering this is what we were given, a "click". Literally a click. That is all we have. Have a listen to this little guy:
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This assignment makes the act of turning water into wine look like a piece of cake. So I'm starting to think my electronic artist name will be DJ Eezus.

Using a variety of effects and modifications, I strung together these three wonders.
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I'm really tired and my ears hurt from certain effects malfunctioning and producing shrill high-pitch dials.

Danke schön,
Max

Radial Improvising

So today in lab we messed around on this little program called Radial, which allows you to run multiple loops at once, change their pitches, speeds, directions, and it also allows you to record your own loops. Matt, my TA, asked us to record an improvised piece. It was my first time (that's what she said) using this program, but it's pretty sweet.

Check it!
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Ring-a-ding-ding

"FREE RINGTONES!"

Don't you hate those awful ads that pollute your internet perusing? Well guess what? Ringers are a lucrative business. And with that, I might add, I plan to make billions off of these puppies.


Here are the two ringers I produced:
Ringer 1 (15 sec)
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Ringer 2 (20 sec)
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Ringer 1- Using sound I recorded at an open mic, I took the chorus of the song, which is sung 3 times, and layered it over itself. I did a lot of finer cuts to get the timing right, because the singer (yours truly) didn't sing it in the exact same tempo each time. After getting the timing down, I modified the pitch on two of the tracks— one to play up a major 3rd, and the other to play an octave lower— leaving one of the three choruses as is. I also found a clap from an audience member and repeated it on beat.

Ringer 2- Combining two of my favorite songs using samples was really fun. I used "You Shook Me" by Led Zeppelin and mashed it with Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give it Up". I cut "You Shook Me" to match the beat of "Got to Give it Up," and then I rearranged, repeated, and did a variety of other modifications to it (pitch change, reverb, etc.). I kept the sample from "Got to Give it Up" as is. Though it was a bad recording so, I used Frequency to cut out some of the high frequencies (buzzing).

Hope you like em!
-Max

First Post/"Hyperactive"

Welcome to my blog.
I'm writing this blog for a class I am taking, called Electronic Music. So you might be able to guess what I'm going to blog about.... Eurythmics. All Eurythmics all the time. Annie Lennox, a pioneer in Electronic Music. Kidding, but in all serious you should check out her music video starring Hugh Laurie. In actuality, I will be writing about everything and anything that tickles my fancy and is related to Electronic Music. Luckily, the internet is a vast and plentiful source for things to talk about—or in intraweb terms, it's quite "bloggable".

That being said, I'd like to start off by talking about one true pioneer in electronic music and in film: Lasse Gjersten. Lasse is a Norweigan experimental filmmaker who dabbles in electronic music. His videos have received tens of millions of views online. So Lasse is quite the Youtube celeb, and mainly because of this video: "Hyperactive". Without having any skill or experience on the piano or drums, Lasse found a way to play. Recording each key on the keyboard and each hit on the drum on video, Lasse built the song on Fruity Loops matching his recorded sounds to the notes on FL. He then cut the video according to the composition he produced on FL, and this is the masterpiece he came up with:


Over and out,
Max