Final Project
Time and Sound
In my essay, I talked about the difference of "Garage band" and "Logic Pro X". And I found that some of the differences are interesting.
// Sense of time : some people compose music continuously, they make music while they play the music. But some people compose music intermittently, they travel between different time in the music.
// Sense of time 2 : People can feel the time through "rhythm".
// Sense of sound (rhythm) : rhythm means the a combination of sound happening. It is performed in sequence, in a time.
In this project, I will explore the happening of sound in time, using video.
Sketches / brainstorming
(how to visualize "the loop of sound"?)
Idea development
VS
Different loops to form time
(garageband)
Continuous time
(LogicPro)
In my final project, I will make two parallel videos, and display it paralleled.
First draft :
I will create a music formed by 9 loops and one continuous melodic line.
And each one of loops, I will draw a short animation about it and display it in the LOOP video. On the other hand, I will draw another animation about the continuous melodic line and display it separately in the CONTINUOUS TIME video.
Two videos will be played at the same time, with the music played.
Audiences can look at both sides and feel the sense of time in different video, within one song.
Second draft :
The music will be lo-fi. There are some reasons:
Low fidelity music can create relax atmosphere through "white noise". I can record some ambient noise in a place and film it, and take the ambient noise as the sample of the lo-fi.
The filmed video can be displayed as a continuous time video.
// Process //
1) creation of sound
I want to first create a piece of lo-fi like music. When I am creating the sound, there are some points which should be highlighted:
1. To indicate the "sense of time" in looping (garage band), I have to create many loops.
2. The other "sense of time" is continuous. I have to add a real time sound into the music.
3. I found this playground ambience interesting. Time flies when children go to playground. So I may take "playgound" as the main theme of the work.
4. Different textures of sound: I want to create different textures of sound in the music.
Sample
Piano
Synth (sq.)
Synth (sq.2)
Bass
Bass2
Synth (sq.3)
Synth4
Drum
Final music
2) creation of video - timeloop
In the "time loop" video, I have to collect clips from a video to represent different time loops. This is the clip I choose:
Girl playing with Whac-a-mole:
Each mole is like each element of drum machine
Balls falling from sky
Balls are like separate elements of a square sound.
Girl walking up of the bridge --> piano
As the piano plays a descending chord, it feels like girl walking down. So I reverse the video, and each step of the girl looks like playing a chord.
Girl walking up.
The synth are like playing a higher and higher notes.
So I make it as a video of her walking up.
Girl playing slide
The curve are like the pitch of bassline.
And I reverse the video as the bassline is walking up.
Final video
3) creation in Blender
