FMX 328 samples

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TITLE: Music Scoring
MEDIA: WAV file
SOFTWARE: Ableton Live 10
HARDWARE: macOS
SPECIFICATIONS: 48 kHz, stereo
CLASS: FMX 328 Sound in Media
PROFESSOR: Gregg Perkins
SEMESTER / TERM: SP 21
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION:  The beginning of a rescore I did for my experimental final; I didn’t rescore the whole film because it’s over 6 mins long and our cut off was about 5 mins max, so I decided to only rescore the first half. This score may not sound like much, but when it’s paired with my film, it honestly takes on a whole new personality. I wasn’t watching my film while I made the score, so I was delighted to find that I had some happy little accidents where note changes would match certain cuts exactly. My experimental final revolves around the subtleties of horses and the world around them, and I really think the score helped to enhance that!

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TITLE: Experimental Sound Piece
MEDIA: WAV file
SOFTWARE: Ableton Live 10
HARDWARE: macOS
SPECIFICATIONS: 48 kHz, stereo
CLASS: FMX 328 Sound in Media
PROFESSOR: Gregg Perkins
SEMESTER / TERM: SP 21
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION:  This piece is undoubtedly a metaphor and a reflection for the mental state I’ve been in most of the spring semester: SOS. It’s kind of eerie and there’s even a track that I purposely manipulated to sound like post-apocalyptic sirens. The goal of the assignment was to record random noises and make something out of them; I personally used things from my apartment. I recorded a bunch of wacky sounds that I made with said things and then picked out the sounds I thought would work best. There’s a remote sliding across a table, a plastic spoon running over the electric coils on my stove, the rustling tinsel of a Valentine’s Day decoration I have, and a plastic spoon poking around in brown sugar. Audio effects are slapped onto the tracks to distort them, and the rest of the tracks are midi files that I manipulated to go along with my audio.

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TITLE: Reconstruct Location Sound
MEDIA: WAV file
SOFTWARE: Ableton Live 10
HARDWARE: macOS
SPECIFICATIONS: 48 kHz, stereo
CLASS: FMX 328 Sound in Media
PROFESSOR: Gregg Perkins
SEMESTER / TERM: SP 21
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: The goal of our first assignment was to go to a location of our choice and sit and listen to it for 30 mins. We would write down everything that we heard in that time. Then, we had to go back to the same location and record the sounds we we had been hearing. Picnic Island Beach is about 10 mins down the road from my apartment, so I figured it would be the perfect place to go to listen and record audio. I captured everything from the waves crashing onto the beach to the planes that would fly overhead to the palm trees rustling in the background. The two tracks I ended up using were both tracks with the waves but they each sounded completely different. I seem to have a tendency to lean towards very ambient sounds, so the track is mixed with midis that give you this really calm and flowing feeling. Personally, the sound of waves has always calmed me, so I wasn’t about to leave that out!