Electronic Music Collective

Trio With Two Alarm Clock Radios, and Alarm

Hello collective, hope all summers are smooth. I’ve had alot of time to follow through with some musical intentions, and this is one of them. I found that I’m really fond of the static/fuzz/noise that exists between radio stations, so i recorded a performance where I ‘play’ the radios. I had set the actual alarm clock for 6 minutes, having that be the end of the song, but i got a little carried away. I recorded the entire thing with a condenser mic. and a SM57 that i would use to solo one of the actual radios. I ran everything through my firewire 410 interface and into garageband. I am overall satisfied with the way this turned out, but i think i could have turned the gain way up, and shortened the piece. …..
p.s. does FM and AM stand for frequency and amplitude modulation? is that in our text book.
ill check i guess. but how does that apply to radios. and what is this new HD radio?

This semester, my project went from a synth pop piece to a more depressing trip hop song.  I used motu symphonic instruments, pro tools le, and fruityloops to compose the piece.  The vocals were effected with delay and loop points to give it a more electronic feel.  I would have liked to have made the vocals sound a lot more strange but chose not to because I still wanted the song to be easily digestible by the average listener.  Overcompression was used on the mix of the instruments to add a pump to the song and let the vocals sit nicely in the front of the mix.  other than that it was a whole lot of reverb.

hypothesis-the-truth.mp3

So everyone, here is my finished work, entitled “The Truth.” I literally just finished the mix down process. I used reason with the help of a MIDI controller to compose the instruments (which has a broad range of synth sounds) The mixing I did with ProTools LE. To record vocals I used the MBox, which has a varitety of imputs and is very user friendly (If im not mistaken, a few of you have the Mbox as well) See yall in a bit, looking forward to hearing the songs

–Dave

About two weeks ago I scrapped the idea of putting words to this song out of intense frustration. However, forcing myself to work without potential vocals left me with a little more space to fill out. This is a very “busy” song, but I spent a lot of time layering it and am quite proud. For kicks, I’ll be throwing up a handful of my “work in progress” tunes in an attempt to get this blog busy.

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hello everyone,
I meant to post this up before, but i never figured out how to convert things into mp3 style until now. anyways, i made this with reason over winter break. I used a fair amount of distortion and I messed around with automating an arpeggiator in order to get the sound. I want to start making more songs like this, but id appreciate some feedback.

thanks,
forrest

After taking advice from Dr. Naylor, right now, my songs melody is nearing its completion.  I still haven’t transferred the midi information into digital sound, but by the end of next week I plan on having the music of my piece completely finished.  From there, I’m going to write lyrics, record vocals (spit flames in the studio), and then spend the last week mixing down.  I’m looking forward to sharing my finished product with all of you.  More updates to come.

Hi Collective.

Sorry I missed you last week. I was caught up in important Psychology Dept. things and by the time they were over it was past 7…

I’ve made progress over the past few weeks, although I’ve been struggling with different ideas as well. What I’ve got so far (in the file I’m posting) is a pretty basic buildup to a (loud) point, after which everthing will suddenly get quiet and vocals will come in (what’s the fancy musical term for that?). It’s not much but it’s the best that I’ve come up with out of several different ideas.

This file still has some level/mixing issues, mainly because of a distortion effect, so watch the volume. I’m working on it.

My main concern right now is that I don’t want it to sound too much like a Trance/Techno track. I have no problem with it being fun or dancable, but I’m worried it’s going to be too formulaic. Hopefully the upcoming portions of the song will help offset that sort of thing…

- Paul

paul’s song, version 3.1

Dear Collective,
I started recording for my compostion over the past weekend. Using a condenser mic and an m-audio interface, i recorded some of the construction sounds coming out of Lee Hall. I got a pretty awesome buzz/drone (it actually changed pitch during the recording so that is handy) on one side, and on the other I picked up a really low rumble. Unfortunately I also picked up a lot of wind on the monroe side. So it might be hard picking out good samples. After walking around for two hours, without finding anything I decided to call it quits for a while. Later on, i ended up going down town and I recorded a cash register at the wounded bookstore (thanks to Tyler Babbie). I think it will make good rhythmic material. It turns out that ill be going home this weekend, so I should be able to get a lot of work done. I plan on doing some recording in the woods, and in the stream by my house. oh man! i can get some power tool samples.

-forrest

I honestly haven’t been in the studio as much as I hoped this semester, but I’ve been gradually working on a techno-ish beat using the Juno-G and DP. I’m also hoping to record a few of my friends’ self-composed songs sometime soon, in a similar style to what I did last year. Also, I got Pro Tools Academic for my birthday a few weeks ago, and while I haven’t been able to get it up and running on my latop yet, I’m excited to learn and use that, and would be interested in installing it on the studio computers assuming I have more than one installation possible.