Project # 5 Controlled and Random event inspired audio mix

Controlled sound:

Random event sound:

Artists statement: The controlled portion of this project was just the purposeful editing of clips that I liked from the 5 track portrait. The random portion was done through a random chance system of using social network distractions again, but by deciding that going to facebook would result in pasting a new clip into the track, and going to twitter would result in editing a clip at random.

Project #4: 5-track self portrait

Artists statement: This project was a combination of all of the audio sounds that we have been creating and recording thus far. There are five separate tracks; The self portrait tape loop, a home made vibraphone, the hand made instrument, a spoken word self portrait, and a home made tape loop, which I made from an old Ricky Nelson tape all played at the same time.

Project # 3: Spoken word self portrait

Artists statement: For this project I decided that since I spent a good amount of my time communicating on social networks, I would use my twitter to define the content of my spoken word portrait. I decided to use a tweetcloud, which shows you which words you use most frequently on twitter. I realized that most of my most used words were extremes of one another, such as love, and hate, so I clicked on both love and hate, and chose various tweets containing them, composing a list of sorts. Most of the items on the list contradicted each other, so I decided to set them up in a parallel fashion. What resulted was a spoken list of contrasting likes and dislikes, which I feel defines my fickle nature quite well.

Project #2: Hand made instrument

Artists statement: Because the instrument was supposed to say something about us, at least in a loosely related way, I decided to use things from my every day life to construct it. Because I enjoy painting in my free time, I chose to use an extra canvas for the main body of my instrument. The sound making device was created by attaching strings from one of my guitars, which I play quite often as well. The result was this musical painting.

Project #1: Tape loop self portrait

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Artists statement: For this project I decided to take an approach of using sounds that I hear often, and/or sounds that I associate with being in happy surroundings. The various sound clips used were from video games, which I play often, Walt Disney's dedication speech of Disneyland, which is something that I have always loved, my guitar, a video of my friends and I playing a card game at my house, and a few ambient noises that can more often than not be heard around my house. The result was a fun, and lighthearted portrait of things that I enjoy.