Assignment 1

Though I spent many frustrating hours in the music lab today working on my first assignment - the "ringtone" - I think I've created a good product. (Listen to Ringtones Below)

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Ring 1 is a twenty-second continuous "soundscape" ringtone that consists of two main parts. The first is a crescendoing set of four time-stretched and reversed clips taken from recorded sounds (glass breaking, girl screaming, etc.). Following this crescendo, the tone transitions into a reiteration of these samples at normal speed and with a more precise rhythm. Ten or twelve additional samples are also added at this point (mixed down into one track) to provide flavor to the work (I used Frequency and Spear to add effects to these tracks - reverse, invert, time-stretch, and pitch-bend). As the tone fades out, the build up and mix will no doubt have already caught the attention of the phone-holder. 

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Ring 2 is another twenty-second ringtone this time created as a loop of a single sample. The sample I chose for this piece was a simple sine police siren (we asked a stopped police officer to sound the siren from her squad car for us). I time-stretched the sample to a three-second clip, a 1:30 clip and a :75 clip, so that I could easily establish rhythm using a 4/4 meter with the three-second clip equaling the whole note. The method proved successful and I am particularly happy with this piece.

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