Assignment #2

Music 173
Assignment 2

1. Record, rip or download 2 sounds from your soundwalk recording or sounds generated by a house appliance or other common everyday object.

Transform each sound at least 3 times to create a totally different foley sound (i.e. the sound effects used for a movie, TV program, radio, etc.).

The transformation that you apply should be one of the following:
- clip
- echo
- compress
- filtering
- modulator (phaser, etc.)
- pitch, speed and tempo changes
- reverse

Put the original sound and each of the transformations on a single track with 2 sec. silence between each. Document the original sounds and the transformations that you applied, including the program name and values of effect parameters or any other instructions of how you manipulated the sounds. Submit the sound file and a text that describes the effects. Give a name to the resulting sound.

2. Reading: two short Jonathan Harvey papers.

Questions:

Explain how the composer transformed the bell sound using the idea of a "pivot".

Describe how the composer blended the boy's voice with the bell sound?

Explain the concepts of paired, evolved and convolved sonorities and their use in composition.

Paper #1:

http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~jacob/harvey_mortuos_ps.pdf

Paper #2:
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~jacob/Harvey.pdf

Recording of Jonathan Harvey's "Mortuos Plango, Vicos Voco" (Save m4a link to your hard drive)
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~jacob/Mortuos.m4a


Assignment due: Thu. Jan 27, at the beginning of class