http://www.ockham-sound.com/9weeks process metaphor | experiments in sound Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:24:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since we've already decided on an 80s style sound for this project, it's only fitting that it comes with authentic synthetic flavor. Much as I would love to throw away thousands of dollars on eBay for vintage synthesizers, my budget only allows for the next best thing: virtual synths. ... http://www.ockham-sound.com/9weeks/2006/08/22/week-2-virtual-retro/ I started this audio path with the 80s in mind, and also important milestones that came after the 80s. This project, to me, is about searching for a way to combine the aesthetics of two musical paradigms. If 80s music was future music, this music is their future's future. I made ... http://www.ockham-sound.com/9weeks/2006/08/07/week-one-initial-impression-in-sound/ After a lot of talk in the comments of the previous post, I decided to finally get started. Hopefully others will take a cue and follow the same timetable. To recap: in this iteration of the 9weeks project, I hope to create a song which is stylistically similar to the other ... http://www.ockham-sound.com/9weeks/2006/08/06/a-brief-history-of-pop-lyrics-as-sexual-imagery/ Ok, heres to another round of 9 weeks. First we need to solidify the guidelines, and we also need to gather some more support. We've deduced that the best way to engage people is through collaboration, so this round will be the end of "i'm going to do my thing in ... http://www.ockham-sound.com/9weeks/2006/07/05/9-weeks-project-2-image-to-sound/ OK, tomorrow is the day to celebrate my indepdendance of any obligation or work, so tonight i am going to upload this and be done with it, whether i think its done or not. Because this is a 10 and a half minute song, I've decided to split it into 2 ... http://www.ockham-sound.com/9weeks/2006/07/04/i-like-to-fuck-week-9/ I had to start from scratch 3 times this week. Finally, on the 3rd attempt, I went into the desired direction. The first 2 attempts failed 2-fold: they lacked any standards for coherency, and they did not deviate enough from previous attempts. Overall I think I spent a good 8 ... http://www.ockham-sound.com/9weeks/2006/06/25/i-like-to-fuck-week-8/ This week I decided to strip about 300ms from the beginning of the sample and only those frequencies above 10,000Hz. These would be the frequencies just at the top of the spectrum--you know the ones that almost hurt your ears. I spent quite a lot of time stretching ... http://www.ockham-sound.com/9weeks/2006/06/21/week-twosferic_2/ If anyone doesn't believe me that this was all extrapolated from my 10 second clip, I am willing to share my FL Studio work file for anyone who wants to peek at the process. I spent longer on this week than the others (almost an hour and a half!). I was ... http://www.ockham-sound.com/9weeks/2006/06/16/i-like-to-fuck-week-7/ you can d/l the files at http://www.vstk.org/music/9weeks About the source i ripped it from a crappy overcompressed porn video in which the guy filming was interviewing the slut. I grabbed it for 3 reasons: the ambient drone in the background, the sound of the slut laughing, and the slut saying "i like ... http://www.ockham-sound.com/9weeks/2006/06/10/i-like-to-fuck-weeks-1-5/ Sferics (short for "atmospherics") are impulsive signals emitted by lightning which can be picked up within 1000 miles of a VLF receiver. My first stab at reproducing this phenomenon involved using SPEAR to resynthesize the audio sample, and pulling out certain frequency bands. It was possible to grab ... http://www.ockham-sound.com/9weeks/2006/06/09/week-one-sferic_1/