Voice Sampling with the Koala App
The group began by exploring their voices through the Koala app, recording and transforming short sounds together on a shared iPad. They discovered how their voices could become instruments, layered, looped, and rearranged through the app’s sampling functions.
Through this process, they began composing collectively, shaping beats and experimenting with sound design. The work invited them to move between play and composition, as each new sound suggested a new rhythm or direction. The Koala app became both a recording tool and a shared space for collective listening and decision-making.
This sub-project was co-created by Ronaldo, Lufi and Alx, with creative contributions from Yuri.
They explored voice, beat-making, composition, music production and creative directing through digital tools. Over several sessions, their work developed in three connected phases: experimenting with the Koala app, creating The Ronaldo Rap, and exploring songs through a DJ program. What began as playful exploration gradually unfolded into a collaborative process of composing, directing, and producing sound.
The Ronaldo Rap
Building on their earlier samples, the participants collaborated with one of the workshop facilitators to produce a track. Together, they combined their vocal samples from the Koala app and began sound designing the beats and adding more layers of sound to accompany them with the DAW Logic.
They also invited a collaborator from another project within the Sonic Beings Laboratory, Yuri, who enjoys rapping to join the process. After discussing what the song should be about, she improvised lyrics based on their ideas and in the end of the performance one of the composers of the song joined her.
DJ Experiments
In the final phase, the group explored the DJ program "DJUCED" with a DJ mixing board from Hercules, using it to search, play, and experiment with a wide range of songs. They especially enjoyed discovering music similar to the one they listen to at home.
Rather than mixing their own track, this part of the process was about exploring and finding music that resonated with them as a curious engagement.
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The whole process moved fluidly between listening, creating, and directing. What began as voice play became composition, and what began as beat-making turned into collective authorship. Each stage expanded their sense of what music-making could be, unfolding as a form of inquiry rather than instruction. Through these shifts, they navigated the space between technology and imagination, shaping sound as both material and method — a way of thinking, exploring, and connecting through listening.
