Final project

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This is my final project. The song is a concept piece. The basic premise is that the song speeds up in tempo as it progresses, changing genre, instrumentation, and even my compositional techniques that are usually associated with that tempo. I begin with an ambient intro, that leads to a trip hop section, then a sort of big beat/break groove, next house, followed by a acid techno, and lastly a jungle finally that dissolves into breakcore.

I used two samples in this song. First, during the trip hop section, I used Curtis Mayfield's "Little Child Runnin' Wild, and then during the Jungle section I used a cover of Radiohead's Airbay by the Easy Star All-Stars. These samples were prepared by wave editor, then edited with recycle and placed in reason. Several of my synths were also made in reason. The bass is the second, third and forth sections of my song were played live by me and edited with logic effects. The drums were all programmed out, somewhat painstakingly.

For my 4th blog assignment I am reviewing Danny Hakim's drum and bass track. Over all this piece did an excellent job of emulating the sound of an old-school drum and bass tune, and the structure was well designed. First and foremost, Danny gave heavy emphasis on the sampling in the piece, seeing as the entire piece was sample based. The drum break takes focus instantaneously, as it often does in a good drum and bass track. The sweeping filter in the introduction draws the listener in with apprehensive curiosity, and quickly rewards this curiosity by kicking in the bass drum and first sample.
One of the best parts of this piece is the fact that Danny made use of speed manipulation in his sampling. Old-school jungle/drum and bass tunes were often characterized by the upper frequencies of a sped up soul record sample and Danny's first sample is reminiscent of this. Conversely, Danny's Hendrix sample is slowed down for the original recording, providing a richer, denser spectrum of frequencies in his piece. This sample and the last one, the Bear vs. Shark, were made further captivating by use of gradual sound manipulation through distortion. Lastly, the samples are well placed in order to create further syncopation and polyrhythms in the song than that which the break beat provides.

project 4

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Two Short Documentaries

These two documentaries explain the origins and uses of two of the most famous components in electronic music history. They are worth the time and the audio examples are great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2874082422033984340

Techno song

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If at first you don't succeed

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Try try again

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