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FreeSound

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Noise generator on an ARP synth, set to "on"

 

''I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a ''

''dancing star. I tell you: ye have still chaos in you.''

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

 

Writing takes work, but writing together requires play. Here's a chance to play around with the very idea of music. Words notoriously fail to describe music very well, so as you play around at the Freesound site (or any other online space that facilitates free play with sound elements) you might consider how interaction itself creates diverse distinctions between organized sound and noise. Where, and how, does noise become music? To explore this matter first-hand, listen to each other's freesound compositions (instructions, below), and add layers of sounds in response. While you listen, write. Actively making music will help us focus our collective attention on important steps in collaborative rhetorical processes and teach us the art of premise-matching. All you'll need is an internet connection and a web browser.

 

 

Step 1

1 Sequencing and layering sound can alter how you feel and where you focus your mind. Go to the Freesound site. Check out soundtransit, too.  Of course, as Michelle has pointed out, there are plenty of online music-making sites cropping up these days--feel free to compose with any sound technology of your choosing. Some of you may want to create a mix in Audacity, even. But if you are a novice to the idea of composing with sound, Freesound and soundtransit make it easy for anyone to play around with and layer different sounds. Using the Firefox web browser, you can play and loop different sounds in different tabs in the same browser window. "Record" your composition by creating a wiki space for your composition, and placing the freesound urls that you selected at that space. At this stage, you might want to blog a bit about the recording process. Think like a composer (your are writing a "score"), or even a game developer (you are creating the rules of play): listen to the layers of sounds you've selected, and tell (performers, listeners, and fellow composers and players) about them (give us directives, establish rules, write out liner notes, share associational thoughts, etc). You may be compelled to place images, links, and previously composed text (prose or poetry) on this page, as well. Upload. Now, your peers can all open the tabs you selected and concatenated, and in doing so, read your writing while they listen to your composition.

 

Step 2

 

 Listen again to your classmate's compositions. At your blog space, post links the two you liked best. What effect does the music seem to induce in listeners?  Are the compositions you selected musical or just plain noisy? Write a couple hundred words and post to your blog.

 

Step 3

 

Mash Them Up

 

head on back to Freesound Visions

 

Train Song

 

Once there was a train that came along and sang a song that goes like "and then enter the little doodle"

 

OK, so someone told me a rumor this weekend about how the large population of cows in India has a worse effect on depleting the ozone than do the millions of cars in America.  The reason is because cows let out such a large amount of methane gases.  Have Fun, Kristie

 

Hey all, Michele here. A couple of people asked me to post a link to a game I was playing at the end of class last week, here it is! PUNK-O-MATIC So just hit "play game" and jam out. There is a way to record your jams, but I don't know what it is, good luck!

 

Lydia's Freesounds

 

Tracy's Freesounds

 

Nancy's Freesounds

 

Paul's Freesounds

 

Jacob's Freesounds

 

Nathan's Freesounds

 

Dylan Adams' Free Sound

 

Earl's Freesounds

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