Melody Assignment

For my final assignment, I decided to submit the melody created by the gadget I made in my Interactive Objects class.

My Interactive Object consists of a modified servo motor mounted above a plywood square, with a pulse-width modulator to manipulate the motor speed. The motor turns a rod arm with weights suspended from each end. As the arm turns, the weights strike a series of shot glasses and copper pipe fittings.

My idea first came for this assignment in my Interactive Objects class when I had decided to take a more mechanical approach in my exploration of sound.

Overall, I think the music-making part of the object turned out well enough. The idea could be further developed by adding greater ability to manipulate the melody by being able to move the glasses. I glue-gunned the glasses to the board because I was paranoid about them breaking, which probably affected some of the sounds.




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Melody Assignment

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Dino Sound Assignment

This week I tried to create the sound of a wild animal hunting prey in the wild somewhere.

The sounds I collected consisted of dogs barking, chirping birds, and I also tried to create some folley style sound effects with some straw (to simulate rustling grass) and some gloves I had lying around (to simulate the flapping bird wings). I also picked up the sound of water running under a manhole in Confederation Park as well as some of the filters to augment the dog barks to make the dogs sound bigger than they actually were.

To be honest, I do not think that I am very satisfied with of this assignment. The piece most certainly could have been longer, but I was also hoping to record some other animal sounds to further augment the barks and chirps.

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