Various Sounds was my first ever composition in Music Technology class. It was made on a small HTML5 website called Incredibox. It introduced the basic concept of mixing and having different tracks combined to make music. I took the direction of planning out the specific sounds I wanted to make and trying to improvise to that spot, so I thought it was challenging to be satisfied with what I made and not reset.
Alec's Beats (Soundtrap) |
Alec's Beats was my first song made in Soundtrap, another music composition website. Its main strength was that I could compose at the speed that I wanted to and change the dynamics of the music through automation, but the downside was that I had to think about a lot more before I finished my project, including volume and panning. As a result, this project took significantly longer than Incredibox. Additionally, I experienced a problem with Soundtrap, where the song would not save, and I left the classroom thinking that it would finish eventually. It did not, and my progress was lost just before submission.
Rushing Back Remix (Soundtrap) |
Creating this piece wasn't too different from the last project done in Soundtrap, but it was an introduction to effects for me. The effects I used were the reverse, filter, fuzz, and stereo delay. They made the music more enjoyable, but I was not able to automate them, forcing me to create separate tracks for every change in effects I wanted to make in the middle of the song.
Sample Project 4 (Ableton Live) |
Sample Project 4 is the first and only project made in Ableton Live so far. It takes the concept of Incredibox and Soundtrap and mixes them into a streamlined application simple enough to be understood by students but powerful enough to be used in professional music creation. I used an Ableton Push for this, hardware that is designed for the Live program.
Alec's Beats 2 (Ableton Live) |
For Alec's Beats 2 (Baljeet's Beats Project), I tried to go towards an energetic but ranging move. I achieved that by using a small pause in the main chorus around the middle of the song to flow from high energy to lower energy.. I like electronic music, so I went to the dance section of the Loops for Live folder and picked out a specific melody. After that, I added the bass and the beat to add on top of it. I repeated this until the song felt "complete." I learned many different kind of effects that I could use, including Small Room for reverb and Around the Head for a sinusoidal pan.
