TITLE: D&D Podcast Background Tracks
MEDIA: Digital Music
SOFTWARE: Abelton Live
HARDWARE: Macbook Pro 2019
SPECIFICATIONS: 48 kHz
DURATION: 2’2”,2’2″,2’3″,2’2″,2’2″
CLASS: FMX 328 Sound in Media
PROFESSOR: Gregg Perkins
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: “D&D Podcast Background Tracks” are a set of five tracks made to be background music for my senior final project. I plan on creating a D&D podcast with some of my friends and I decided to create the tracks for them. I used a technique from a video called “Ableton Tutorial – Make Ambient Music” by Ned Rush on YouTube and edited the sounds and added effects to my liking. Each track uses the same technique, randomizing notes in the MIDI track using an operator effect, but all have different sounds to them. To some of the tracks, I also added some royalty free sound effects that I then edited to give them an extra boost.

TITLE: Minecraft Score
MEDIA: Digital Music
SOFTWARE: Abelton Live, Premiere Pro
HARDWARE: Macbook Pro 2019
SPECIFICATIONS: 48 kHz
DURATION: 4’16”
CLASS: FMX 328 Sound in Media
PROFESSOR: Gregg Perkins
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: “Minecraft Score” is a scoring project of the popular game “Minecraft.” I recorded gameplay footage from my PC of myself playing the game on my friend and I’s world. During the recording, I accidentally ran into a boss monster and died in the process. I then took the footage and stripped it of any game sound effects and edited the video for time using Premiere Pro. Afterwards, I imported the new video into Abelton and created my own track from there using royalty free sound effects combined with my own sounds and noises.

TITLE: Childhood Nostalgia Experiment
MEDIA: Digital Music
SOFTWARE: Abelton Live, Tracktor DJ
HARDWARE: Macbook Pro 2019
SPECIFICATIONS: 48 kHz
DURATION: 5’24”
CLASS: FMX 328 Sound in Media
PROFESSOR: Gregg Perkins
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: “Childhood Nostalgia Experiment” is an experimental music piece using various cartoon theme songs from the early 2000s. Using Abelton, I was able to create background beats which were then mixed with the original theme songs in Tracktor DJ. I then took the Tracktor DJ product, put it back into Abelton, and created more sounds with effects. I enjoyed learning how to use Tracktor DJ and it is a great free producing product. All of the theme songs belong to their original owners and are purely used for educational purposes only.

TITLE: I’ll Take a Bagel with Butter
MEDIA: Digital Music
SOFTWARE: Abelton Live
HARDWARE: Macbook Pro 2019
SPECIFICATIONS: 48 kHz
DURATION: 4’10”
CLASS: FMX 328 Sound in Media
PROFESSOR: Gregg Perkins
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: “I’ll Take a Bagel with Butter” is a remix of a 4’33” recording. The original recording place was the University’s Starbucks. The title comes from someone saying “I’ll Take a Bagel with Butter” within the background of the recording. I found the conversation that followed to be very interesting so I decided to use it within the piece. This project was the first time I ever used Abelton Live, and I am happy that I am able to use the software effectively and efficiently.

TITLE: 8-Bit Track
MEDIA: Digital Music
SOFTWARE: Logic Pro
HARDWARE: Macbook Pro 2019
SPECIFICATIONS: 44.1 kHz
DURATION: 2’25”
CLASS: MUS 108 Recording and Electronic Music I
PROFESSOR: Michael Quintana
SEMESTER / TERM: SP 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: “8-Bit Track” is a song created in Logic Pro. This final course project needed to be at least 2’15” of an original track. We had full freedom in the genre that we chose. I personally really enjoy listening to 8-bit and old school sounding video game music and I decided to make that my theme. I took inspiration from games like ‘Super Mario Bros.’ and ‘The Legend of Zelda’ when creating this track.

TITLE: Chopped
MEDIA: Digital Music
SOFTWARE: Garageband
HARDWARE: Macbook Pro 2019
SPECIFICATIONS: 44.1 kHz
DURATION: 0’22”
CLASS: MUS 108 Recording and Electronic Music I
PROFESSOR: Michael Quintana
SEMESTER / TERM: SP 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: “Chopped” is a piece made using various small percussion instruments and other found and human sounds. Each instrument and was recorded individually and then cut. Afterwards my partner and I pieced together different sounds to make the track. This entire piece was a challenge because we needed to record and piece together the track from scratch in only 90 minutes.

DISPLAY TIME: 0:44 -> 3:00(All Episodes)
TITLE: Sandy and Mikey’s End of the World Cafe and Podcast
MEDIA: Digital Podcast
SOFTWARE: Adobe Audition
HARDWARE: Macbook Pro 2019
SPECIFICATIONS: 48 kHz
DURATION:17’34″(Ep.1), 20’51″(Ep.2), 17’28″(Ep.3)
CLASS: COM 346 Writing for Interactive Media
PROFESSOR: Lauren Malone
SEMESTER / TERM: SP 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: “Sandy and Mikey’s End of the World Cafe and Podcast” was created by myself and Taylor Hernandez. Our task was to create three fifteen minute episodes of a podcast using fiction. We scripted, recorded, and edited all three episodes together in a little over three weeks. Since we were a group of two, some voices were pitch edited to better portray the characters we wanted to have.

TITLE: Shrimp Remix
MEDIA: Digital Music
SOFTWARE: Logic Pro
HARDWARE: Macbook Pro 2019
SPECIFICATIONS: 44.1 kHz
DURATION: 0’21”
CLASS: MUS 108 Recording and Electronic Music I
PROFESSOR: Michael Quintana
SEMESTER / TERM: SP 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: “Shrimp Remix” is a piece with audio remixed from a song known as ‘Shrimp.’ Our professor provided us with tracks and our task was to create a remix using the track that was at least 8 bars long. I used the original Shrimp song and some provided loops to create the remix. I also included a drum set at the end to play the final notes of the song.

TITLE: 7 Words
MEDIA: Digital Music
SOFTWARE: Logic Pro
HARDWARE: Macbook Pro 2019
SPECIFICATIONS: 44.1 kHz
DURATION: 0’46”
CLASS: MUS 108 Recording and Electronic Music I
PROFESSOR: Michael Quintana
SEMESTER / TERM: SP 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: “7 Words” is a piece created with my small class group, “Industrial Duck Quack.” We created a piece using 7 words and then made it into a song all within one class period of about 90 minutes. First, my group recorded the 7 base words in one of the practice rooms on campus. Then we used each individual word, edited it, and included it into the song where we then added the rest of the sounds and background noises.

TITLE: Generative Synthesis
MEDIA: Digital Music
SOFTWARE: VCV Rack
HARDWARE: Macbook Pro 2019
SPECIFICATIONS: 44.1 kHz
DURATION: 0’11”
CLASS: MUS 108 Recording and Electronic Music I
PROFESSOR: Michael Quintana
SEMESTER / TERM: SP 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: “Generative Synthesis” is a piece using randomized notes within VCV Rack. The program automatically outputs random beats and sounds using a randomizer and a clock. There is constant pink noise within the background. I wanted to generate a piece that would play calming and soothing sounds, so that is why I chose the String VCO modules in order to make a project that would be relaxing to listen to.