Experiments

Pendulum Music and Clarinet

Seven Bottles

Groups of Recordings and Composition: Washing Machine

Installation Documentation of Bar compostition Washing Machine 

Washing Machine recording playing at 816hz bottle with Omni microphone inside and an EQ Peak Filter applied

Multiple seperate field and object recordings played at bottles with omni microphones as they sit inside two bottles. Those subsequent recordings have an EQ Peak Filter applied.

Groups of Production: Botanica

Two Bottles

Recording from inside each bottle with EQ Peak Filters applied

Spinning Speaker

Groups of Recordings: Bottles

Part of Bar composition Speaker Map, with each recording

St. Peters and I am Sitting in a Room

00:22 - 00:26

3rd, from top of stairs

4th, from inside piano

1st, from cornor

2nd, from inside piano

Vape8

Hitting around a bottle

After listening back to the recording of the feedback, I found its frequency range and discovered I could almost match it on clarinet to overlap its spectral content the spectral peak of the feedback.

Blowing into each bottle to record and find their resonant frequency (using a spectogram and cross reference with a tone generator in Reaper):

115hz, 115hz, 164hz, 183hz, 212hz, 276hz, and 347.5hz

Swinging mic

Recording (Microphone)

Testing the Airflow module in disposable vapes with an Arduino board

Generations of recording blending into one another

3D Printed Prototypes with slip rings

816hz and 1226hz, tones of each of the two bottles

My score based on my performance of Reich's Pendulum Music 

Pairing bottle recordings to make chords

298hz (L) and 307hz (R)

Clarinet and my Pendulum Music interpretation together. 

Steve Reich's Pendulum Music Score

EQ Peak Filtering

Tone Generator

Spectograms

Sign on an old Piano

Microphone swinging over speaker casuing feedback

MaxMSP patch for Vape8

Botanica Inspired Production

Hitting 816hz bottle

Using a Zoom F6 with a Hydrophone, Piezo microphones, Omin microphones, and Condensor microphone, I recorded multiple positions of a washing machine and placed the recordings in round pattern as a part of my final installation the Bar composition.

Playback (Speaker)

MaxMSP patch to convert Arduino code to switches (0/1) that line up with the device

Graphic Score for playing Vape8

Video documentation of the performance

Video of prototype with motor and band

Renders of conseptualised installations applications of with spinning speakers.

 

 

 

This is a work in progress. It was not important to the core research to complete this experiment, but it is an idea worth considering for future spatial sound research for real time tracking that would interact with the audience a change the audio produced through the speakers, as well as how the speakers would change the sound through its spinning feature.

Abelton Composition, how sound may travel between speakers

The Vape8 device

MaxMSP Patch

298hz and 307hz

Botanica is an emerging music micro-genre that exists dominantly in online spaces (to my knowledge). Its hyperreal, textural approach, often using processed foley, organic sound fragments, and layered ambient pads, drew my interest in incorporating it into my research. I shifting timbres and dynamic spatial movements working well to suit my multichannel speaker arrays and  installations work.

00:16, 00:32

Methodology, Effects, and Process

Sample from YouTube

EQ Peak Filtering

Reducing Playback Sample Rate (perticularly to hear ultrasonic sounds in an audible range for humans)

Resonance and Reveberance

Microsounds and Oscillations

 Dissonance

To see Pod Composition and Spatial Illustration, see my Final Installation

Just Intonation

Original Sound: Produced, Foley, Object Enquirey, and Field Recording

Edited and Processed Sound

Samples

Straw Slurping

Pod Composition 

Burping

Dock Freight

Application of sound in a longer song:  Liminal Shopping (Binaural)

Ventilation

Coin and Glass

Speedwell Bottles

Bottles, Eggs, Guitar, Saxophone

Throwdowns

Very slow MIDI Synth sliding chords (Abelton)

Sine Wave, Equal Temperament to Just Intonation

Forcing a D7 chord tuned to Just Intonation

Arrangment of Microsound Oscillations in Reaper

712.5hz

570hz

475hz

380hz

Microsound Oscillation Sample