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Track for the final assignment of the Audio Signal Processing for Music Application course on coursera.com
Description (excerpt from assignment):
"the crowdsourced mutant electro tune"
To make the track for this assignment, I used only natural/acoustic sounds from freesound.org and sms-tools transformations. no other samples or effects were used.
This is a preview of the final mix of the track, which has a quite experimental, tongue-in-cheek industrial vibe A10 - track master
For the rhythmic parts, I picked a double bass "col legno" sample: http://freesound.org/people/Carlos_Vaquero/sounds/153796/
To make the task more challenging I decided to use different transformations to obtain all the percussive parts from this sample only.
For the melodic/harmonic parts I instead decided to limit myself to voice samples. However, I adopted a different approach compared to the percussive sample. Instead of handpicking a single sample myself, I sent a query to freesound using the API and the python script employed in assignment A9.
SD.downloadSoundsFreesound(queryText='voice',API_Key='', outputDir='melodies/',topNResults=20,duration=(0,13), tag = 'female , singing')
This way I quickly downloaded 20 voice samples with 'female' and 'singing' tags. This is the result of the query:
voice_SoundList
I listened to all the sounds and discarded the heavily processed or synthesised ones and the choir samples, keeping only the samples with a single female voice.
The samples I kept are the following:
https://www.freesound.org/people/xserra/sounds/162043/
https://www.freesound.org/people/maurolupo/sounds/211623/
https://www.freesound.org/people/maurolupo/sounds/211628/
https://www.freesound.org/people/toiletrolltube/sounds/181317/
https://www.freesound.org/people/maurolupo/sounds/211961/
https://www.freesound.org/people/Shuinvy/sounds/257360/
https://www.freesound.org/people/visual/sounds/320626/
https://www.freesound.org/people/EdwardLin2015/sounds/327756/
https://www.freesound.org/people/womb_affliction/sounds/330709/
Then I started transforming and overlapping the sounds.
All the percussive element where obtained from the same double bass bass samples which is both percussive ("col legno" articulation) and pitched (it's a G#), therefore is suitable for various transformations.
I created a whole drum kit transforming the same sample in different ways beyond recognition.
To obtain the transformed samples I used the HPS transformation.
The voices were first used clean and then later in the piece transformed to obtain strange effects and sounds.
Type
Wave (.wav)
Duration
2:06.292
File size
21.2 MB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bit depth
16 bit
Channels
Stereo
5 years, 4 months ago
Interesting. I once made a remix in a similar fashion (though very different stylistically) by taking snippets of the vocal track to build the melody. My inspiration doing this was Jean-Michel Jarre's 1984 Zoolook album.
8 years, 3 months ago
Thanks! :)
8 years, 3 months ago
amazing!